
Have you ever had to switch between browsers for specific tasks because an app only works in Internet Explorer? Microsoft Edge can fix that by streamlining your productivity, allowing you to use apps and services in one browser. To be sure you have the latest version of Internet Explorer 11, select the Start button, select Settings > Update & security > Windows Update, and then select Check for updates. The browser is built on the Chromium project, which operates other browsers, and provides you with the best of the web’s history and future thanks to the dual engine. To open Internet Explorer, select the Start button, type Internet Explorer, and then select the top search result. Microsoft Edge is the only browser to offer this kind of integration. Internet Explorer Mode includes built-in compatibility for websites that still support Internet Explorer.

You will benefit from a dual engine that supports old and new websites. If you are switching to Microsoft Edge, here are three notable differences when using the browser: 1. It is currently the second most-used web browser currently. If you are currently using IE 11, we recommend you. If you check for the presence of MSIE or Trident in the user agent that should work pretty well for identifying all cases of Internet Explorer.While there are other web browsers to choose from, Microsoft is urging its IE users to switch to Microsoft Edge, the best alternative for those wanting to stay with Microsoft. Microsoft announced plans to make Edge broadly available across more versions of Windows beyond Windows 10. Interestingly when looking over this list of IE user agents, the user agent you observed is one of the very few that does not contain MSIE.

So.īased on this list it looks like UserAgent for almost all versions of Internet Explorer contain MSIE so that would be the primary thing you would want to look for.

But I fully realize that sometimes it can be helpful. I feel obligated to say that it's typically best to try to avoid server side browser sniffing if you can.
