I am using a .NET web application and for some of its features Internet Explorer is needed. Internet Explorer 11 is installed on Windows Server Standard 2012 R2.
The issue is that the buttons on the web application are not clickable while on Firefox and Chrome they work properly with a color change hover effect.
The issue is not related to the application as the buttons work on an IE 11 installed on Windows 10.
I tried already these so far:
IE Compatibility view
Website included in Local intranet and Trusted sites (disabling Protected Mode)
In the browser Advanced Settings I tried these options:
Enable third-party browser extensions
Enable visual styles on buttons and controls in webpages
Play animations in webpages
Browser reset
In Firefox I disabled Shockwave Flash and Java plugins and the buttons still work properly.
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When debugging my ASP .NET Core Web API application in Visual Studio 2022, I have the Docker configuration set to launch a browser:
This browser defaults to Edge. Is there a way to change this, to Firefox for example? That is my browser of choice and I would prefer it to simply open a new tab in an existing instance of that rather than an entirely separate Edge window.
Firefox is set as my default browser.
Thanks.
You can choose a default browser to use with the docker profile but it's not clear how to modify the list of possible browsers or if you can modify the launch settings for those browsers... anyway, from the debug toolbar menu you'll see the very small drop down menu arrow. Clicking on that gives you a series of drop down menus that lets you choose a browser.
Note the "Browse With..." does not work for me. The project rebuilds and nothing happens when I click that. And "Select Web Browsers..." gives a limited choice of chrome, edge, IE.
Turns out it does seem to use the default browser.
This is a new install of Win 11, and I had installed Firefox within the same session as my attempted debugging with it - a reboot seemed to result in VS using it as expected.
The default browser behaviour is documented here.
I'm having issues that IE version 11 stuck randomly on some page. the code is working fine because whenever i restart the program sometimes it work but the most annoying will be randomly stuck after click and load the page. is this normal on IE? i never had this type of issues when using Chrome. but this website works only at IE. can i know the cause of this problem is it the driver?, the website itself? or Network security?
While you work with Internet Explorer v11 you need to configure your test framework with the Required Configuration. Apart from these specifically only for IE 11 you will need to set a registry entry on the target computer so that the driver can maintain a connection to the instance of Internet Explorer it creates as follows:
For 32-bit Windows installations, the key you must examine in the registry editor is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BFCACHE.
For 64-bit Windows installations, the key is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BFCACHE.
Trivia
How does the registry entry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\…\FEATURE_BFCACHE for InternetExplorerDriver solves the Internet Explorer 11 issue?
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I have made a personal app using VB. The app uses Webbrowser control to load modern site so I edited my registry to have my app use Windows 8.1 IE browser instead of ActiveX browser built in with VB.
The registry edit I made was,
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION]
"APPLICATION.exe"=dword:00000000
This worked fine with the application until I upgrade it to Windows 10. Now the application won't load the browser if I have the key and when I delete it, it uses the default ActiveX control which doesn't support many things. Is there any way to make it work ? IE is still there on Windows 10 but I am guessing Edge is the problem ?
The dword value should be 11000 in decimal, so the WebBrowser control displays the Web page like the Internet Explorer 11.
Add the same dword inside
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_NATIVE_DOCUMENT_MODE]
to be sure it works properly.
Im creating a freeware application (long live the free community) and I'm trying to add various features that might drive people to use the application such as implementing whatsapp web https://web.whatsapp.com/ into the app so that the user will always have an "always on top" window with their chats rather than everytime having to switch tabs if they're multitasking on their browser.
The problem i am having is that the built in Browser control with VS 2013 does not work with whatsapp web and i get the option to use supported browsers like firefox...chrome...safari.
Is there anyway to make a VB.NET application open an actual chrome/firefox based browser within itself?
I found an article on Gecko Browser...I am not sure if web.whatsapp.com would see this as a firefox browser: http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?692005-Mozilla-Firefox-Gecko-Xulrunner-in-VB-NET-%28versions-14-and-up%29
Help appreciated.
I'm experiencing a very strange behaviour with Bootstrap 3 when viewing in Internet Explorer. My nav bar works perfectly locally (I'm using VS2012, so the page is being served by IIS Express), but when I deploy it to one of our internal servers (running full IIS) it always appears collapsed (even if I stretch the browser across both my monitors!)
If I user Chrome, it works perfectly.
I've compared the files that are downloaded in each case, and they are identical. I have even create a test file which uses the example nav bar from the bootstrap website, and I see the same behaviour.
So, to summarize:
Local / IE Works
Local / Chrome Works
Remote / IE Does not work
Remote / Chrome Works
Any pointers about this very strange behaviour would be very much appreciated!
I found the problem, and it is Internet Explorer's compatibility settings.
Under Tools > Compatibility View Settings dialog there is a checkbox which says "Display intranet sites in Compatibility View".
This setting meant IE used an older rendering engine, which did not work very well with Bootstrap. Once it was turned off everything was fine.