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Title: Edge displays This website needs Internet Explorer message
Post by: javajolt on July 24, 2015, 04:06:34 AM
At times when you visit a website using Edge browser in Windows 10, you may receive a message: This website needs Internet Explorer. This website uses technology that will work best in Internet Explorer. This post explains what you can do and why this happens.

This website needs Internet Explorer

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This happens due to this due to compatibility issues with some of the websites. Microsoft Edge browser in Windows 10 doe not support ActiveX, Silverlight and some other legacy technologies. So if you visit a website that uses such technologies which are not supported by Edge, then you will see this message.

In such cases, you should click on Open with Internet Explorer. The web page will open with IE.

If you click on Keep going in Microsoft Edge, the website may open in Edge, but with reduced functionality.

This message is controlled using a cloud-hosted Compatibility List, which Edge downloads from time to time. Once the website abandons legacy technologies and embraces new one’s, the list gets updated, and Edge will no longer display this message when you visit the website.

If at any point, you now feel that you need to view the web page in IE, open More actions and click on Open with Internet Explorer.

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All done!

twc