Version number of my Edge browser?

VanguardLH wrote:
Kirk Bubul wrote:

On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 06:44:42 -0500, VanguardLH
wrote:

Kirk Bubul wrote:

On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 00:12:57 -0500, Zaghadka
wrote:

On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 15:49:54 -0500, in alt.comp.os.windows-10, Kirk Bubul
wrote:

I am running Windows 10 Pro 1903 Build 18362.295. Discover Bank
is telling me that my browser is out of date and I'll be frozen
out after October 15, 2019. They also claim that browsers
Firefox version 30 and above and Google Chrome version 30 and
above are okay. I can't believe that those are newer than my
Edge browser.

How can I find out what version number my Edge is? I've looked
but haven't been able to find it.

Thanks in advance for any help.
You can go to Settings-Apps and find Microsoft Edge there on the Apps
page. Click on Edge and choose "advanced." You'll find the version number
there, as well as data usage and permissions.
Thank you for introducing me to this part of Settings. I found
exactly what I needed.
Would that be a different bank site that doesn't complain about you
using the latest version of Edge?
No. I called Discover customer service and the guy assured me
that if was Discover that was behind and that Edge was certainly
acceptable. I told him that the writers of the email has wasted
both his time and my time by not saying that in their email.

They sent you an e-mail about which web browsers their site supports?
From your starter post here, I figured the site pushed an alert at you
when you connected your web browser to their site. Sending an e-mail
about which web browser you use with their site smacks of a scam or
severe stupidity. Seems implausible a company would waste the money on
an employee to write up bulk e-mails (which does NOT have guaranteed
delivery) to all their customers when the site itself should be doing
the web browser check.

Getting an e-mail supposedly from my bank telling me which web browsers
to use at their site (that they contract with someone else to build and
maintain) would be, to me, suspicious. None of the banks I've used ever
sent me bulk e-mails about how to use their web site, and before now
I've not heard of anyone else getting such e-mails except as a phish.

It sounds like someone has coded up a script to extract
records from the web server (UserAgent), and craft emails based on
what is found.

Their FAQ page is delightfully free of details. I don't see
an entry here that addresses this practice of harassment. They
make it seem that browser updating is a "purely arbitrary"
activity, which for the user, it is not.

https://www.discover.com/credit-card...r-browser.html

My government weather site had a better approach, in that they gave
a months notice about "switching to TLS 1.2" for no particular
reason. But at least you could then spend the time to figure out
"which of my browsers does that".

Paul

Paul wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:
Kirk Bubul wrote:

On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 06:44:42 -0500, VanguardLH
wrote:

Kirk Bubul wrote:

On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 00:12:57 -0500, Zaghadka
wrote:

On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 15:49:54 -0500, in alt.comp.os.windows-10, Kirk Bubul
wrote:

I am running Windows 10 Pro 1903 Build 18362.295. Discover Bank
is telling me that my browser is out of date and I'll be frozen
out after October 15, 2019. They also claim that browsers
Firefox version 30 and above and Google Chrome version 30 and
above are okay. I can't believe that those are newer than my
Edge browser.

How can I find out what version number my Edge is? I've looked
but haven't been able to find it.

Thanks in advance for any help.
You can go to Settings-Apps and find Microsoft Edge there on the Apps
page. Click on Edge and choose "advanced." You'll find the version number
there, as well as data usage and permissions.
Thank you for introducing me to this part of Settings. I found
exactly what I needed.
Would that be a different bank site that doesn't complain about you
using the latest version of Edge?
No. I called Discover customer service and the guy assured me
that if was Discover that was behind and that Edge was certainly
acceptable. I told him that the writers of the email has wasted
both his time and my time by not saying that in their email.

They sent you an e-mail about which web browsers their site supports?
From your starter post here, I figured the site pushed an alert at you
when you connected your web browser to their site. Sending an e-mail
about which web browser you use with their site smacks of a scam or
severe stupidity. Seems implausible a company would waste the money on
an employee to write up bulk e-mails (which does NOT have guaranteed
delivery) to all their customers when the site itself should be doing
the web browser check.

Getting an e-mail supposedly from my bank telling me which web browsers
to use at their site (that they contract with someone else to build and
maintain) would be, to me, suspicious. None of the banks I've used ever
sent me bulk e-mails about how to use their web site, and before now
I've not heard of anyone else getting such e-mails except as a phish.

It sounds like someone has coded up a script to extract
records from the web server (UserAgent), and craft emails based on
what is found.

Their FAQ page is delightfully free of details. I don't see
an entry here that addresses this practice of harassment. They
make it seem that browser updating is a "purely arbitrary"
activity, which for the user, it is not.

https://www.discover.com/credit-card...r-browser.html

My government weather site had a better approach, in that they gave
a months notice about "switching to TLS 1.2" for no particular
reason. But at least you could then spend the time to figure out
"which of my browsers does that".

Paul

However, there is no guaranteed delivery with e-mail. Sending an e-mail
to a customer about a critical change in your services means some users
never get the notification. Something like web browser throttling is
best served at the server at the time of a connection and providing
minimal content (that even something like Netscape 1.0 could render;
i.e., just text) notification at that time. The customer would be sure
to know about the pending or existing change.

I'm not sure the bank's site only cares about web browser versions
connecting to it only after a login. Without a login, how would the
site know how to equate the UA header to a customer record? More likely
the bank sent out a bulk e-mail to all their customers with no regard to
which web browsers those customers are using. If you're older, the
notice applies to you. If your newer, the notice is wasted postage and
paper. I can see them sending postal or e-mail notices about changes to
their policies because those affect all their customers. They don't
know who is use what web browser, so they just blanketed all the
customers.

On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 09:40:55 +0100, Chris wrote:

Ditch the bank they don't understand software or the internet. I
wouldn't trust them.

Seems a bit harsh. Looking at their website, they seem an
all-American setup packed with chirpy looking people with perfect
teeth. What could possibly be wrong?

mechanic wrote:
On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 09:40:55 +0100, Chris wrote:

Ditch the bank they don't understand software or the internet. I
wouldn't trust them.

Seems a bit harsh.

Not really. It harks back to the bad old days where websites were designed
to a browser model (Internet explorer) not to a standard. If they can't do
something as simple as that properly I wouldn't trust the rest of it.

Looking at their website, they seem an
all-American setup packed with chirpy looking people with perfect
teeth. What could possibly be wrong?

Ken Springer wrote on 9/19/2019 5:09 PM:
On 9/19/19 2:49 PM, Kirk Bubul wrote:
I am running Windows 10 Pro 1903 Build 18362.295. Discover Bank
is telling me that my browser is out of date and I'll be frozen
out after October 15, 2019. They also claim that browsers
Firefox version 30 and above and Google Chrome version 30 and
above are okay. I can't believe that those are newer than my
Edge browser.

How can I find out what version number my Edge is? I've looked
but haven't been able to find it.

Thanks in advance for any help.

1. Open an Edge Window.
2. At the far right edge of the line that has the address bar are 3
horizontal dots.
3. Left click on the dots, scroll down until you find the Setting
option. Left click on
Settings.
4. In my installation, the Settings opens to General. If it doesn't
for you, left click
on the gear icon at the top of vertical row of icons at the left edge
of the Settings window.
5. Scroll down to the bottom, and you'll find About this App, which has
the version for me.

Windows 10 Pro 1903



I get

Microsoft Edge 44.18362.329.0

On Wed, 20 May 2020 15:31:11 +1000, Peter Jason wrote:

If so, based on that article, you're probably using
the ChromEdge one or something. As it's a lot harder
to do *anything* to the original MSEdge.

There is a way to make a shortcut for the original MSEdge,
except, you can't edit it.

Paul

It's the same one I've been using for months. It was the MSoft promo.

Regarding the shortcut to Microsoft Edge... see...
o *What's the trick in the Microsoft Edge browser - to get the ORIGINAL image URL?*
https://alt.comp.os.windows-10.narkive.com/TRgRQ8fg/what-s-the-trick-in-the-microsoft-edge-browser-to-get-the-original-image-url

The reason I needed that Edge shortcut is that I maintain WinXP style
accordion cascade menus, and therefore, I needed to add the Edge & IE
shortcuts to that classic Windows XP style Windows 10 native menu:
Start menu browser {edge,ie,firefox,tor,opera,iron,etc.}

EDGE
o TARGET = %windir%\explorer.exe shell:Appsfolder\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8 bbwe!MicrosoftEdge
o STARTIN = %windir%
o ICONFROM = %SystemRoot%\System32\SHELL32.dll

IE
o TARGET = "%ProgramFiles%\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"
o STARTIN = %windir%
o ICONFROM = %ProgramFiles%\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
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