Is there a Selenium WebDriver available for the Microsoft Edge browser?

Yes, there is a WebDriver implementation for Microsoft Edge. Its initial availability was announced on 23 July 2015. Language bindings in the Selenium open source project have been updated to take advantage of this driver implementation, and those updates have been released in Selenium 2.47. Note that the Java language bindings were re-released as 2.47.1 … Read more

What is after Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7? How well will ES2016 be supported in enterprises?

With JavaScript now being updated each year (ES2015, ES2016, ES2017, etc.), how does Microsoft plan to keep IE 11 up to date? They’re not going to. As of 2015, Internet Explorer 11 will no longer be receiving any new features or platform bug fixes. Only security updates will be provided to IE11 from here on … Read more

How can I detect Internet Explorer (IE) and Microsoft Edge using JavaScript?

Here is the latest correct way that I know of how to check for IE and Edge: if (/MSIE 10/i.test(navigator.userAgent)) { // This is internet explorer 10 window.alert(‘isIE10’); } if (/MSIE 9/i.test(navigator.userAgent) || /rv:11.0/i.test(navigator.userAgent)) { // This is internet explorer 9 or 11 window.location = ‘pages/core/ie.htm’; } if (/Edge\/\d./i.test(navigator.userAgent)){ // This is Microsoft Edge window.alert(‘Microsoft … Read more

Automating Edge Browser using VBA without downloading Selenium

There are now many ways to achieve this. Method 1 As of 25th April 2022, you can now directly automate Edge IE Mode with VBA without any additional third party-software. The below guidance has been well tested by me and my colleagues after obtaining it from exchanging with our partnered Microsoft Support team. Win Upgrade … Read more

includes() not working in all browsers

If you look at the documentation of includes(), most of the browsers don’t support this property. You can use widely supported indexOf() after converting the property to string using toString(): if ($(“.right-tree”).css(“background-image”).indexOf(“stage1”) > -1) { // ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You can also use the polyfill from MDN. if (!String.prototype.includes) { String.prototype.includes = function() { ‘use strict’; return … Read more

Why does Microsoft Edge open some local websites, but not others, where the domain name is routed to 127.0.0.1 in hosts file

Your network can block loopback as a security measure in Windows 10. Open a command prompt as administrator, and run this to exempt Edge from a loopback: CheckNetIsolation LoopbackExempt -a -n=”Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe” (Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe is the identifier for the Edge app) There’s a blog post here giving more detail: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/msgulfcommunity/2015/07/01/how-to-debug-localhost-on-microsoft-edge/

Will Microsoft Edge support COM automation (InternetExplorer object)?

Microsoft Edge will not support the COM automation interface (InternetExplorer object) that you referred to. For automation scenarios, our direction is to support of the WebDriver interface that is supported across browsers. WebDriver support is now available in Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 and requires a separate executable that you can download. To get an … Read more

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