Microsoft gets Edge on blocking ad injectors Microsoft has nixed the ability for its Edge browser to run unsigned dynamic link libraries (DLLs) in a move that will make life hard for dodgy extensions and ad injector merchants. Edge senior program manager Crispin Cowan says the update was dropped last week in the latest Windows 10 update and follows Redmond's plan to …
"I want to be able to..."
FTFY
Be a pretty odd combination of circumstances where your continued employment or survival depended on whether or not you could open all your bookmarks in tabs with a single click... I can't think of any examples where that might be the case, but I'm willing to not rule it out.
I don't deny the convenience of being able to do so, but the conflation of 'want/preference' and 'need' is beginning to be something of a pet hate.
I find that Edge remembers my tabs even after exiting and restarting, as long as I don't explicitly delete them.
So, with separate windows (and/or desktops) it seems ok to manually open the tabs required and leave them open.
ISTR they re-open after booting too (its been a month on this machine, I forgot but I am reasonably sure).
What I do know is that the tabs are accurate, it remembers the state very well.
Edge does have issues with the more dubious sites trying all methods to show ads and popups, it can even crash Edge where nothing else seems to. I just hope MS are getting this famous telemetry and fixing it.
And, as a bonus Edge removes the need for Adobe Reader since it displays PDFs natively and much faster, that is worth it on its own.
I suppose it's useful to make you look busy but, since I actually read the tabs I open, clicking them individually doesn't seem like a big deal and, given all the good Edge brings to the table, you'd have to have a real, specific, highly specialized use case to make this a deal breaker.
That's like saying cars are useful because you can put up billboards and the drivers will see them.
No. Web browsers are an attractive target because that's the one platform everyone is using for a majority of their Internet interactions. The fact that you can spaff ads on them is a side effect, not a purpose.
And I don't use Linux. But I don't assume I'd hate it. The update makes edge better than it was and that should be applauded, not condemned based on an anti-Microsoft prejudice. If you want to compare Edge to whatever Linux browser you use, fine, otherwise, go troll the Gizmodo fora.
"The update makes the browser the only one with that type of security protection."
...I call bullshit on that... I'm pretty certain my linux Firefox is also protects me by not loading dll's and Browser Helper Objects, whatever these are, and as others have state I'd bet lynx offers similar protection, though even for me that is just a bit too olde worlde.
Firefox will be loading DLLs (or equivalent), virtually every browser does as a matter of course. It's incredibly difficult to write any non-trivial piece of software for a full OS that doesn't dynamically link against any other components.
What's changed is that Edge is now verifying that every DLL it does load is signed by Microsoft or the Windows Hardware certificate, so the only external code it will ever load, even if another process is injected / hacked or whatever is guaranteed to come from MS. This certificate checking is being done with kernel protection so that it's not possible for a user process to bypass the checks.
Same as splitting different tabs into separate processes, I expect this development to be taken up by the other browser developers as a matter of course.
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