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Hendrik:
In Media Center 28, we are adding a new default integrated browser, displacing the ageing Internet Explorer.

This move was made possible by Microsoft exposing their new Chromium-based Edge browser to applications, replacing the old Internet Explorer based integration.
The new Edge being based on Chromium makes it a prime choice for integration, with the same capabilities and performance as Chromium itself, but with an easier integration and avoiding a large additional download.

Edge offers full support for DRM Video playback, allowing playback of videos on Amazon Prime or Netflix, and YouTube does allow log-in from Edge, which has stopped working with both IE and Chromium after changes made by YouTube.

Installing Microsoft Edge is not required for the integration to work. Instead we install the Microsoft WebView2 component during the Media Center installation, if its not present on the system already.
All versions of Windows, 7 to 10, are supported.

Edge is the new default browser in Media Center 28, so no further actions should be required to make use of it.
You can confirm the browser choice in the Options, Tree & View -> Web Browser

SamuriHL:
This is great.  I want to play around with this when I get some time.

mwillems:
The Linux and Mac versions will still presumably rely on Chromium, though, right?

Hendrik:

--- Quote from: mwillems on April 08, 2021, 09:11:17 am ---The Linux and Mac versions will still presumably rely on Chromium, though, right?

--- End quote ---

Of course, Edge is for Windows only.

mwillems:
I wasn't sure if they were packaging it for other platforms.  There had been some rumblings from MS sources about packaging Edge for other OS's at some point after the re-base to Chromium, I just wasn't sure if that had actually happened/was going to happen. 

Thanks for the confirmation!

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