


If you’re running Microsoft Edge, the new update should already be available in the browser. This feature behavior can be controlled using the ShadowStackCrashRollbackBehavior policy,” the software giant explains. For more information, see Hardware-enforced Stack Protection. Hardware-enforced stack protection is only supported by Windows 8 and later. “Microsoft Edge will continue supporting more fine-grained protection by combating memory corruption vulnerabilities and by protecting indirect calls. Microsoft Edge 100 also introduces a new method to view a PDF file in a read-only preview, though this option is only available for Outlook desktop attachments or for documents stored locally and which you attempt to open from File Explorer.Įdge can also work with digitally-signed PDF files, with the browser now introducing hardware-enforced stack protection (which is only supported by Windows 8 and newer versions of Microsoft’s operating system). Also, the #force-major-version-to-minor flag is available in edge://flags to freeze the major version in the User-Agent string to 99,” the software giant explains. You can use the ForceMajorVersionToMinorPositionInUserAgent policy to control whether the User-Agent string major version should be frozen at 99. “This may confuse scripts or server-side analytics that use a buggy parser to determine the User-Agent string version number. Microsoft warns the change could cause some problems on certain websites, with the company offering additional guidance for webmasters to deal with the whole thing. Just like Google Chrome, which has also reached version 100 earlier this week, the new version of Microsoft Edge introduces a three-digit user agent as well. Microsoft has recently released Edge 100, a major browser update that’s now live on all supported desktop platforms.
