Introducing Windows 10 for IT Professionals by Ed Bott

Author:Ed Bott
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Published: 2016-06-20T16:00:00+00:00

FIGURE 6-1 Entering about:flags in the Microsoft Edge address bar unlocks these advanced settings.

One of the most important changes in Microsoft Edge is its user-agent string, a primary troubleshooting tool for determining whether a webpage is rendering incorrectly because it’s coded to sniff for a particular browser version rather than test for the existence of specific features.

On Windows 10 version 1511, Internet Explorer 11 identifies itself with the following user-agent string:

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko

In contrast, Microsoft Edge 25 returns this user-agent string with each webpage request:

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/46.0.2486.0

Safari/537.36 Edge/13.10586

The changes in user-agent string make it much more likely that a site will serve up the same standards-compliant page it would serve for other browsers and ignore any Internet Explorer–specific modifications.

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