Microsoft's tweaks are therefore to be welcomed, even if IE will linger on in some form or other long after the upcoming June retirement date. Internet Explorer's demise is long overdue. Microsoft has relented and made it possible to manually set cookies to be shared in both directions. The restriction caused headaches for admins forced to mix old and new. Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Internet Explorer > Set Use the Enterprise Mode IE website list to. Session information from sites using the modern rendering engine could be passed to the legacy engine, but not the other way. IE mode has, up until now, been a one-way street. The problem arises when cookies are used to share information (such as credentials) between sites.

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Click the menu button at the top-right corner of your Edge browser and select Settings. Microsoft backtracks on lack of easy Windows browser choice To use IE mode on a website, you first need to enable the feature.Not a problem if you're just using Internet Explorer, but combining Edge and Internet Explorer mode has caused difficulties for customers trying to run a mix of sites, some of which are happy on modern browsers and others that need Internet Explorer mode to function.

The other issue is cookie handling on legacy sites.

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