Earlier this year at its Build 2019 developer conference, Microsoft announced IE Mode for its upcoming Chromium-based version of Edge. Now, you can finally use it.
The feature allows you to open a webpage in an Internet Explorer tab within the Edge browser itself. You’ll need to enable a flag called ‘Enable IE Integration’ first, and then when you have a page open, you can go to More tools -> Show this page using Internet Explorer to change the tab you’re in.
As many of you rightfully pointed out the last time we talked about the new Edge, this might be the feature that will push a lot of especially enterprise users to Edge – something I clearly didn’t take into account.
OMG! I’m still never going to use it!
It’ll be widely tested and adopted, anyone ignoring this will potentially lose access to a huge segment of the desktop market!
If I’m investigating new apps but have to manage two corporate browsers to make it work I won’t choose that app! I’m already buried in legacy apps that need multiple browsers, the more I can consolidate the better my work load, although I appreciate diversity delivers some viral immunity. Having too many browsers is just unmanageable, the best number I can imagine is one, and I’m free to choose!
When you write “app” is that the same thing, in this context, as a web/intranet site?
Obviously depends on your sector, but take something like the NHS in the UK. It has such a large set of legacy IE only websites and system interfaces that a browser that supports them is a MUST.
Telling the end user they have to use Chrome for HR and Edge for intranet and Chrome for purchasing simply isn’t viable. So when selecting a new HR system, the Edge support becomes a required feature.
It is no accident Edges logo looks exactly like an IE one. Trust me, the pushback from staff to using anything else is basically insurmountable.
In my case it’s a combination of things, but mostly cloud or small embedded server applications for IIoT devices and industrial or medical sensors.
In many cases it’s more than just making them work, often changes have to be certified.
We are not like Tesla, we aren’t going to update you to the latest killer app!
IE Mode now works in Microsoft’s Chromium-based Edge browser – that sentence makes my head spin.