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Several issues have been addressed. The N&N mentions this and encourages
the community to activate Edge as the browser of choice and report back
any findings.

Co-authored-by: Heiko Klare <[email protected]>
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<tr id="edge-browser-improvements"> <!-- https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.swt/issues/1466 -->
<td class="title">Improvements to Edge Browser (Windows only)</td>
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<p>
In an effort to make it the default browser for Windows, several issues that affected the Edge browser
have been addressed in this release. Some of them are:
<ul>
<li>Added support for basic authentication</li>
<li>Let it inherit the proper light/dark theme from Eclipse instead of Windows</li>
<li>Fixed obscure "No more handles" issues</li>
<li>Fixed deadlocks that occurred due to the way Edge handles requests</li>
<li>Fixed some styling issues in the welcome page for Eclipse</li>
<li>Fixed some issues with JavaScript being used in an empty (local) page</li>
</ul>
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<h4>Using Edge</h4>
<fieldset>
<legend><b>Warning</b></legend>
Changing the size of the browser window can currently cause flickering effects, which are currently being resolved.
People who are sensitive to this should therefore either not use Edge at the moment or possibly avoid resizing browser windows.
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<p>
Edge still <b>isn't</b> the default browser but it is mature enough that it can be activated and used already.
In order to replace IE with Edge as the browser of choice, you can either:
<ol type="a">
<li>Enable the <strong>monitor-specific UI scaling</strong>
(see <a href="#rescale-on-runtime-preference">above</a>) or</li>
<li>Set the parameter <b>-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.DefaultType=edge</b> in your <i>eclipse.ini</i></li>
</ol>
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<p>
We are looking forward to the community using Edge and reporting back any findings via our umbrella issue
(<a href="https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.swt/issues/1466">#1466</a>)!
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