Hi Parikh, Vivek,
To add to Dan's answer, there is an ongoing incident right now that is causing some customers to experience intermittent browser crashing when accessing certain parts of the portal. They receive a Status_Access_Violation error.
Workarounds:
1)If you are able to use the Edge Beta channel of the browser, Edge Beta is on version 127 and this issue should not repro in 127. You can download Edge 127 here:https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/download/insider
2)Launching edge from the command line and adding the following flag:
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--disable-renderer-accessibility
- See: Chromium Docs - Accessibility Overview (googlesource.com)
- Please note: this will cause incompatibility with any technology that uses our accessibility APIs, including screen readers.
- In the command line, you could launch the browser from the root directory where msedge.exe is installed and run
msedge.exe --disable-renderer-accessibility
. On my computer, the full command to change into the root directory and then launch the browser iscd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application && msedge.exe --disable-renderer-accessibility
, but this may vary depending on where the browser is installed on the virtual machines. - Steps to update the shortcut instead:
- Close all instances of Edge
- Open the start menu, find shortcut to Edge.
1. Right-click and click "Open File location" 1. Observe this brings you to a file explorer window with the shortcut highlighted. 1. Right click the Edge shortcut. 1. Click Properties 1. In "Target" observe the name and path of the exe 1. Append your feature flags after the closing " of the exe name. - e.g. `"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe" --disable-renderer-accessibility` 1. Now when you open edge using the shortcut, it will have the flag applied. 1. **Please note:** if another application opens edge first, the flag **will not be applied.**
- Optionally: the flag can be verified by navigating to edge://accessibility/ and observing the checkbox with the label: "Lock the current accessibility mode from being changed except by this page." But I do not recommend using this page to control accessibility, as it is a tool for chromium developers, and is not intended for use by general users.
- In the command line, you could launch the browser from the root directory where msedge.exe is installed and run
I'll continue to update this thread as I receive any additional news or workarounds.