browser compatibility

Mozilla has announced that it will cease extended support for Firefox on legacy operating systems—including Windows 7, 8, and 8.1—on March 4, 2025. This decision marks the end of an era for users still clinging to older systems and has significant implications for security, compatibility, and...

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After 25+ years of helping people use and experience the web, Internet Explorer (IE) is officially retired and out of support as of today, June 15, 2022. To many millions of you, thank you for using Internet Explorer as your gateway to the internet. For our readers in Japan and Korea, please...

Last year, the Compat 2021 effort made tangible progress on improving five of the top pain points for web developers. Microsoft, in collaboration with Google and Igalia, contributed a rewrite of the CSS Grid module in Blink, along with bug fixes for CSS Transforms. Representatives from Apple...

Today, we’re happy to share our support for Open Web Docs, a new collective launching today which is dedicated to sustainably supporting high-quality, browser-agnostic, community-driven web developer documentation. Open Web Docs employs full-time writing staff to support the development and...

In continuation of our commitment to reduce fragmentation of the web for all developers, and to create better web compatibility for our customers, we plan to support the Declarative Net Request API and other changes proposed as part of Manifest V3. The decision to embrace Manifest V3 changes is...

The browser and search engine for business In our mission to empower people with knowledge with Microsoft 365, one critical opportunity is the internet. We know that 60% of the time people spend on the PC is within the web browser, and it has become the primary way we work, learn and play...

Attention: windowsForum members: I have a web page that serves up fine ( my personal computer is configured as a dedicated web server ), except that the embedded video in that web page does not work ( it will not work in either the Vivaldi or Opera web browsers, for example ). I just...

The Edge browser is to change: Microsoft Edge: Making the web better through more open source collaboration - Windows Experience Blog

Just over one year ago, we started working on a best practices tool for the web called Link Removed—a customizable, open-source linting tool, built for modern web developer workflows. Today, we are announcing the release of its first major version. With today’s launch, we’d like to talk you...

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is a guest post from Link Removed, a Program Manager on the Microsoft Edge team and creator of the popular Lodash JavaScript library, sharing the news of a new community project to bring ECMAScript modules to Node. I’m excited to announce the release of @std/esm...

Beginning with EdgeHTML 15 in the Windows 10 Creators Update, Microsoft Edge introduces support for CSS Custom Properties, a new primitive value type to fully cascade variables across CSS properties. You can preview CSS Custom Properties in Windows Insider Preview builds beginning with EdgeHTML...

Whenever I try to access Yahoo mail using Edge I get this message "Please reload the page and try again or use another browser". Reloading doesn't help. I have other browsers I can use, but wonder why edge doesn't work with Yahoo mail. Any ideas?

We are happy to introduce support for Content Security Policy Level 2 (CSP2) in Microsoft Edge, another step in our ongoing commitment to make Microsoft Edge the safest and most secure browser for our customers. CSP2, when used correctly, is an effective defense-in-depth mechanism against cross...

Editor’s Note – this post was originally posted on Medium and has been updated to reflect the latest information. Let’s talk about the progress of web apps. No, that’s not an autocorrect mistake from “progressive web apps” — let’s take a look at how the web has progressed from “a large...

Today we’re excited to announce that we’re open-sourcing part of the Microsoft Edge WebGL renderer – specifically, the GLSL to HLSL transpiler. We hope that the source code is useful for everybody working on similar WebGL projects, and that this will help performance, correctness and...

Starting in EdgeHTML 14, coming with this summer’s Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Microsoft Edge will support the highly anticipated Fetch APIs. This represents the first step in our planned journey to supporting Service Worker in a future release. You can preview the Fetch APIs in Link Removed...

Hello, I have a pc I had rarely used with Windows 8, which I just updated to 8.1 When I checked for updates, I have 175 updates that I needed to download and install. Couple questions... 1) do I need to dl and install all updates? (Some are updates that have the year 2012 on it). Can I pick and...

After installing Windows 10 and using the Edge Browse I have recently starting getting pop up type warnings that my COX IP supplied security software, McAfee, will not work or protect using the Edge Browser and I need to revert back to an old Internet Explorer Browser to be protected by McAfee...

Editor’s note: This is part two of a two-part series on Web Components by Microsoft Edge engineers Link Removed and Link Removed. To read more about our viewpoint and background on web components, please see part one, “Bringing componentization to the web: An overview of Web Components.“...