The Microsoft Edge browser makes use of a service called Microsoft Defender SmartScreen to help protect users from phishing websites and malicious downloads. The SmartScreen service integrates with a Microsoft threat intelligence service running in the cloud to quickly block discovered threats. As I explained last year, the SmartScreen service also helps reduce spurious securityContinue reading “Capturing Logs for Debugging SmartScreen”
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Unexpectedly HTTPS?
While I’m a firm believer that every site should be using HTTPS, sadly, not every site is yet doing so. Looking at Chrome data, today around 92% of navigations are HTTPS: …and the pages loaded account for around 95% of browsing time: Browsers are working hard to get these numbers up, by locking down non-secureContinue reading “Unexpectedly HTTPS?”
Debugging Compatibility in Edge
Background By moving from our old codebase to Chromium, the Microsoft Edge team significantly modernized our codebase and improved our compatibility with websites. As we now share the vast majority of our web platform code with the market-leading browser, it’s rare to find websites that behave differently in Edge when compared to Chrome, Brave, Opera,Continue reading “Debugging Compatibility in Edge”
Great Bug Reports via “Recreate My Problem” in Microsoft Edge
When you encounter a problem in Microsoft Edge, you can let the team know about it using the … Menu > Help and Feedback > Send Feedback command. Clicking this menu item will open Edge’s feedback wizard, which provides tons of options about what information will be submitted along with your bug report. Generally speaking,Continue reading “Great Bug Reports via “Recreate My Problem” in Microsoft Edge”
Offline NetLog Viewing
A while back, I explained how you can use Telerik Fiddler or the Catapult NetLog Viewer to analyze a network log captured from Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, or another Chromium or Electron-based application. While Fiddler is a native app that runs locally, the Catapult NetLog Viewer is a JavaScript application that runs in your browser.Continue reading “Offline NetLog Viewing”
Debugging Browsers – Tools and Techniques
Last update: November 14, 2023 Earlier this year, I shared a post on how you can become an expert on web browsers from the comfort of your desk… or anywhere else you have an internet connection. In that post, I mostly covered how to search through the source, review issue reports, and find design documentation.Continue reading “Debugging Browsers – Tools and Techniques”
Analyzing Network Traffic Logs (NetLog json)
Previously, I’ve described how to capture a network traffic log from Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, and applications based on Chromium or Electron. In this post, I aim to catalog some guidance for looking at these logs to help find the root cause of captured problems and otherwise make sense of the data collected. Last Update:Continue reading “Analyzing Network Traffic Logs (NetLog json)”
Debugging Proxy Configuration Scripts in the new Edge
I’ve written about Browser Proxy Configuration a few times over the years, and I’m delighted that Chromium has accurate & up-to-date documentation for its proxy support. One thing I’d like to call out is that Microsoft Edge’s new Chromium foundation introduces a convenient new debugging feature for debugging the behavior of Proxy AutoConfiguration (PAC) scripts.Continue reading “Debugging Proxy Configuration Scripts in the new Edge”
Capture Network Logs (NetLog) from Edge and Chrome (and Electron and WebView2)
Problems in accessing websites can often be found and fixed if the network traffic between the browser and the website is captured as the problem occurs and the resulting log file is shared with engineers. This short post explains how to capture such log files. Capturing Network Traffic Logs If someone asked you to readContinue reading “Capture Network Logs (NetLog) from Edge and Chrome (and Electron and WebView2)”
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