I use quite a lot of browsers, I use Microsoft Edge for work, Firefox for personal browsing, Opera when I need VPN protected browsing, and occasionally I also use Safari and Chrome.
All modern browsers will store usernames and password for you, but when you get a new device or start using a new browser, you may need to go and recover browser passwords (and possibly usernames) from your other browsers.
Disclaimer :I’m not a numpty, these are not my real usernames and passwords folks!
Settings > Autofill and Passwords > Google Password Manager.
Either browse the whole list, or search for the site you are looking for and select it.
You may need to authenticate (for obvious reasons) > Press Reveal, copy the username and password
Solution: Recover Browser Passwords (Firefox)
Type about:logins in the address bar > Search for the site you want to recover the credentials for > Select the site >Reveal > Copy the username and password.
I get it, older versions of TLS and SSL are insecure and we should not be using them. However I needed to get on an HPE Server iLO management interface last week and I
was met with this.
Firefox Error: SSL_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED_VERSION Microsoft Edge, Chrome, and Opera Error: ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH
Microsoft Internet Explorer Error: This might be because the site uses outdated or unsafe TLS security settings. If this keeps happening, try contacting the website’s owner. Your TLS security settings aren’t set to the defaults, which could also be causing this error.
Firefox Solution : SSL_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED_VERSION
I advise you just do this to get to the page you need to and set it back afterwards. In your browser windows enter about:config, Type TLS into the search bar and locate security.tls.version.min and change its value to 1, Then tick to save.
And now, I can get to where I want to go.
IE Solution : SSL_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED_VERSION
Yeah, I know Internet Explorer is supposed to be dead, but it’s still there and you can utilise it to solve this problem, from your internet options in IE > Advanced > you can then enable TLS 1.1. and 1.2.
You will still get a warning but now you can click past it.
Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links
This is the second time I’ve had this problem, luckily it took me so long to figure it out the first time, this time I was fine. On my mac I use Edge as the browser for all the work applications. But when it had a notification for me like this.
Despite my best efforts, it was not obvious what it was telling me.
Solution: Microsoft Edge Notification
Another clue is the ‘blue’ circle around the download logo, Edge is informing me that there is a download problem, in my case a download has failed, I simply need to delete the partially downloaded file and attempt to download again.
Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links
Controlling Microsoft Edge with Group Policy is pretty straight forward, you just need to ensure the msedge.admx and msedgeupdates.admx files have been added to your policy definitions store in the right folders. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, see the following article.
In a fit of lunacy Microsoft have called ‘their’ new browser Microsoft Edge, so we can spend the next few months confusing it with Edge. Plus every Google search for GPO settings, error messages etc will all now show search results for the old Edge Browser not the new Microsoft Edge browser! Perhaps the same doofus at Microsoft who called the Exchange sync Active Sync when Microsoft already had a product called Active Sync was involved?
Anyway I got a request from a client this week to have Microsoft Edge on their Citrix environment, there was some confusion (imagine that), because Edge does not work on server 2016, (and it’s not shipped as part of server 2016), but would Microsoft Edge work?
Installing Microsoft Edge on Server 2019/2016 (With IE11)
Why is Internet explorer still alive? Anyway If you want to install Edge on a modern Windows server firstly ensure you are fully up to date with updates! Then open IE. Internet Options > Security > Custom > Scripting > Enable Active Scripting > OK > Yes > Apply > OK.
The first test was, ‘would it run on Server 2016’, it detected the OS as Windows 10 (unsurprisingly), and installed fine;
Microsoft Edge on Remote Desktop Services
Well Citrix is really just Remote Desktop Services in a leather jacket, so the next test was,’ would it work in RDS?’ I span up an RDS farm on the bench, and was pleased to see I could select Microsoft Edge as a RemoteApp, (not that I needed to deploy it using RemoteApp, but it being detected was promising).
And in an RDS session it worked faultlessly.
Deploy Microsoft Edge on Citrix (Server 2016)
Here’s where we had a problem, it installed fine, but every time I went to open it, all I got was a ‘white screen’ for about 5 minutes, after this it burst into life, which I couldn’t really ask the client to put up with!
As this was happening when I launched the browser I ‘wrongly’ assumed it was a ‘first run‘ problem (for the uninitiated, previous Microsoft browsers got an annoying ‘how do you want to set the browser up’ routine, then finally dumped you on the MSN webpage, (does anyone actually use the MSN webpage?) While it didn’t cure my problem it’s worth mentioning how I stopped the first run dialog happening);
Controlling Microsoft Edge with Group Policies
If you are used to importing ADMX and ADML files then this will be a breeze to you. If you are really interested I cover the subject in great deal in the following post;
Computer configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Microsoft Edge
[/box]
Microsoft Edge: Stop Importing of Bookmarks/Favourites
Locate: ‘Automatically import another browser’s data and settings at first run‘ > Enable the policy, and select ‘Disable automatic import and the import section of the first run experience is skipped‘ > Apply > OK.
Microsoft Edge: First Run
This will disable the entire first run dialog;
Locate: ‘Hide the First-run experience and splash screen‘ > Enable the policy > Apply > OK.
As it was working in RDS and not working on Citrix, then the problem was probably Citrix*. Citrix is one of my weaker subjects, so credit for the actual fix should go to my colleague (Dan Brookes).
*After I had discounted existing group policies, and other installed applications.
Running Microsoft Edge while it was ‘hanging’ and looking at what was going on in ‘Process Monitor’ showed a lot of hook64.dll entries;
This pointed to the culprit, open the registry Editor (regedit) and navigate to;
[box]
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > System > CurrentControlSet > Services > CtxUvi
[/box]
Locate the UviProcesExcludes REG_SZ value, edit it and add ‘msedge.exe;‘ to the end.
Theres probably one service you can restart, but I simply rebooted the server, (problem solved).
FSLogix and Microsoft Edge
If you are running FSLogix you should also add an ‘exclusion’ to the Redirections.xml file, (located in your \\{domain-name}\NETLOGON folder).
Outlook URL: I first noticed this a few weeks ago, When copying and pasting a URL into an email it shortens the URL and gives it the pages title. At first i thought my firms Devs had changed the way our CRM works, but then I noticed it happening with SharePoint URLs as well, this is what I mean;
I don’t have a problem with it, in fact I much prefer it! However I got an email this morning from someone asking how to turn it off. As it transpires it has nothing to do with Outlook at all. It’s a feature of the Microsoft Edge browser.
Outlook URL Shortening is Really Microsoft Edge
Within Microsoft Edge > Preferences > Share, Copy, and Paste > Select your preference, if you want to disable this feature select ‘Plain Text’
And now the actual URL will be posted.
Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links
So now theres a version of Microsoft Edge for macOS! Normally I would not bother, but I spend a lot of time in SharePoint and Azure so I thought, rather than my usual approach of playing ‘Browser Roulette’ I’d try Microsoft Edge and see what it was like.
My usual browser of choice is Safari, but the install wizard defaults to wanting to import bookmarks / favourites* from Chrome. (I do also have Chrome, but I don’t use it often!)
*Note: Wow! Microsoft have spelled Favourites correctly for once!
So how to get my Safari Bookmarks?
Solution
Firstly Edge needs full disk access to get the bookmarks > Apple Logo > System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Full Disk Access > ‘UNLOCK’ > Tick Microsoft edge.
