Skip to content

Commit 889f507

Browse files
Add N&N entry for the Edge Browser.
Several issues have been addressed. The N&N mentions this and encourages the community to activate Edge as the browser of choice and report back any findings. Co-authored-by: Heiko Klare <[email protected]>
1 parent c48b48f commit 889f507

File tree

1 file changed

+34
-0
lines changed

1 file changed

+34
-0
lines changed

news/4.34/platform.html

Lines changed: 34 additions & 0 deletions
Original file line numberDiff line numberDiff line change
@@ -181,6 +181,40 @@ <h2>General Updates </h2>
181181
</p>
182182
</td>
183183
</tr>
184+
185+
<tr id="edge-browser-improvements"> <!-- https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.swt/issues/1466 -->
186+
<td class="title">Improvements to Edge Browser (Windows only)</td>
187+
<td class="content">
188+
<p>
189+
In an effort to make it the default browser for Windows, several issues that affected the Edge browser
190+
have been addressed in this release. Some of them are:
191+
<ul>
192+
<li>Added support for basic authentication</li>
193+
<li>Inherited the proper light/dark theme from Eclipse instead of Windows</li>
194+
<li>Fixed obscure "No more handles" issues</li>
195+
<li>Fixed deadlocks that occurred due to the way Edge handles requests</li>
196+
<li>Fixed some styling issues in the welcome page for Eclipse</li>
197+
<li>Fixed some issues with javascript being used in an empty (local) page</li>
198+
</ul>
199+
</p>
200+
<p>
201+
Edge still <b>isn't</b> the default browser but it is mature enough that it can be activated and used already.
202+
In order to replace IE with Edge as the browser of choice in Windows, you can either:
203+
<ol type="a">
204+
<li>Enable the <strong>Monitor-specific UI scaling</strong>
205+
(see <a href="#rescale-on-runtime-preference">above</a>) or</li>
206+
<li>Set the parameter <b>-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.DefaultType=edge</b> in your <i>eclipse.ini</i></li>
207+
</ol>
208+
</p>
209+
<p>
210+
211+
</p>
212+
<p>
213+
We are looking forward to the community using Edge and reporting back any findings via our umbrella issue
214+
(<a href="https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.swt/issues/1466">#1466</a>)!
215+
</p>
216+
</td>
217+
</tr>
184218
</tr>
185219
<!-- ******************* End of General Updates ************************************* -->
186220
<tr><td colspan="2"/></tr>

0 commit comments

Comments
 (0)