Microsoft notes that the feature is available for local PDF documents opened in File Explorer and for Outlook Desktop PDF attachments.Īnother PDF-specific change adds support for opening digitally signed PDF documents. The option to preview PDF files using Microsoft Edge Web View has been added to Microsoft Outlook and File Explorer. Enterprise customers and organizations may use the ForceMajorVersionToMinorPositionInUserAgent policy to freeze the user-agent at version 99 to mitigate the issue temporarily. The company notes issues may arise out of this, for instance, when buggy parsers are used to determine the version number of the browser. Microsoft Edge uses the three-digit version number in its user agent string by default. The issues have severity ratings of moderate or important. None of the six are publicly disclosed or exploited according to Microsoft. Microsoft links to six of the nine security vulnerabilities only. The security updates for Chromium, the core that Edge and Chrome are based on, are also incorporated in the new release. Microsoft lists nine Edge-specific security updates in version 100 of the browser.

Microsoft Edge 100 is a security update first and foremost. The latest update is downloaded and installed automatically if it is newer than the installed version. Desktop users may load edge://settings/help to display the current version and run a check for updates.

Microsoft Edge installs updates automatically by defaul.

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