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Provide SxS experience again

Open kristibektashi opened this issue 3 years ago • 6 comments

Yes, it's still possible. All you have to do is rename C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe to something else (e.g. msedge2.exe). You can even rename it back after launching Edge Legacy and have both running at the same time

kristibektashi avatar Oct 08 '22 22:10 kristibektashi

However, in order for this to work, you would have to make sure Edge Legacy works in the first place and doesn't crash even when Edge Chromium is not installed

kristibektashi avatar Oct 08 '22 22:10 kristibektashi

Thank you very much for your research! I'll look if that could be automated in some fancy way...

ShortDevelopment avatar Oct 09 '22 07:10 ShortDevelopment

Thank you very much for your research! I'll look if that could be automated in some fancy way...

This can be automated with a batch file that takes ownership of msedge.exe (this needs to be done after every Chromium Edge update) and renames it to msedge2.exe (or any other name) and renames it back after Legacy Edge is launched (to enable SxS)

Although I'm pretty sure this method requires admin privileges every time Legacy Edge is launched since msedge.exe is in Program Files

kristibektashi avatar Oct 23 '22 09:10 kristibektashi

That's possible of cause, but I actually though of finding out what causes the redirect in the first place by observing the behavior you described. This would almost certainly involve some reverse engeneering of system files.

ShortDevelopment avatar Oct 23 '22 09:10 ShortDevelopment

Any news in this?

kristibektashi avatar Aug 13 '23 20:08 kristibektashi

@kristibektashi Not really, sry

ShortDevelopment avatar Aug 21 '23 12:08 ShortDevelopment