{"id":187812,"date":"2022-04-04T11:48:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T09:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=187812"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:50:15","slug":"microsoft-edge-releases-version-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/microsoft-edge-releases-version-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Edge releases version 100 with PDF updates and protection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recently Google hit version 100 general availability (GA) and celebrated with a new logo (among other updates). Now, it\u2019s the turn of Microsoft Edge<\/a> to reach the same version<\/strong> number. Microsoft Edge 100 has reached GA with a few exciting updates regarding PDFs and added protections<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are a couple of notable updated features included in this latest release. The first one to be aware of is that the browser will use a three-digit User-Agent string<\/strong> instead of the usual two-string. This may cause some websites that haven\u2019t updated their parsers to break<\/strong>. To remedy this, Google has included an option in edge:\/\/flags to freeze the major version number<\/strong> at 99 instead of rolling over to 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another update is that when users open specific URLs for Microsoft 365<\/strong> programs, it will launch apps automatically for other services using Microsoft 365 Applications Protocol Activations. Policies can control this behavior<\/strong> if it becomes annoying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the better enhancements was made to preserve the integrity of memory<\/strong>. This is achieved by protecting the system from indirect calls to memory<\/strong>. This feature is only available to Windows 8 and newer, as it\u2019s an enhancement to hardware-enforced stack protection. There are also numerous other security improvements made to CVEs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also two separate updates affecting PDFs<\/strong> in this latest release. Edge 100 includes a lightweight PDF reader to preview files<\/strong> without the need for third-party apps. This is especially useful for viewing PDF documents from email attachments. You will also be able to use digital signature validation<\/strong> directly from this reader without needing other programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are many new features in the latest update of Microsoft Edge 100. You can find the full release notes<\/a> here. The update is rolling out automatically<\/strong> throughout the next few days. However, if you notice a delay, you can manually update your Edge version to 100.0.1185.29 from the settings menu in your browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently Google hit version 100 general availability (GA) and celebrated with a new logo (among other updates). Now, it\u2019s the turn of Microsoft Edge to reach the same version number. Microsoft Edge 100 has reached GA with a few exciting updates regarding PDFs and added protections. There are a couple of notable updated features included … Continue reading “Microsoft Edge releases version 100 with PDF updates and protection”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9221,"featured_media":187815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2379],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-187812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionmicrosoft-edge"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324128,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187812\/revisions\/324128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187812"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=187812"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=187812"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=187812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}