Edge – major flaw

I somehow stumbled across a “bad” website that is putting up a fake malware warning, and stopping me getting to any other tab on Edge.

I crashed Edge deliberately, but when it restarts, it automatically reopens the tabs, including the one which caused the problem.

This is a BIG design flaw.  Chrome lets you restore your tabs if you choose – but you can elect not to.

How could they screw this up so badly?

This web post sums it all up nicely – https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2015/09/regaining-control-over-edge/

Conversation 13 comments

  • 9528

    Premium Member
    30 December, 2016 - 12:14 pm

    <p>Open Edge and immediately use Ctrl-T to open new tab … but you have to be quick!</p>

    • 5664

      Premium Member
      30 December, 2016 - 2:31 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#32890">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/alfrew">alfrew</a><a href="#32890">:</a></em></blockquote>
      <p>This worked for me when it kept opening a tab that would then immediately crash it. Edge took the time to load the new tab page and I clicked over to yet another tab, forcing it to load, then hit the close X on the bad tab.&nbsp;</p>

      • 9528

        Premium Member
        30 December, 2016 - 2:44 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#32915">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/jimchamplin">jimchamplin</a><a href="#32915">:</a></em></blockquote>
        <blockquote><em>After opening the new tab, then go to settings in Edge and clear everything out … that fixes the problem.</em></blockquote>
        <p>&nbsp;</p>

        • 5664

          Premium Member
          31 December, 2016 - 6:10 pm

          <blockquote><em><a href="#32924">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/alfrew">alfrew</a><a href="#32924">:</a></em></blockquote>
          <p>Or I could do what I did and not lose all my cookies and crap! </p>

  • 1377

    Premium Member
    30 December, 2016 - 1:23 pm

    <p>Maybe disable networking before restarting Edge. If last session’s tabs can’t reload, you could close them before re-enabling networking.</p>
    <p>Won’t help if Edge caches its active tabs.</p>
    <p>NEVERMIND!</p>
    <p>I read the linked article, and Edge does cache tabs. Not easy to clear the cache without running Edge.</p>
    <p>This comes from doing a partial job of reinventing the wheel. Being able to access IE settings from Control Panel turns out to be a pretty good idea. Pity Settings has nothing similar for Edge.</p>

  • 1321

    30 December, 2016 - 1:55 pm

    <p>Does it have the pop up window in the middle of the screen? If so click the check box that says don’t let this web page generate new messages.</p>

    • 5172

      31 December, 2016 - 10:47 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#32913">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/nightmare99">nightmare99</a><a href="#32913">:</a></em></blockquote>
      <p>Hi.&nbsp; I did this, and it worked. I’d been too scared to click anything on the page in case it was tricking me into doing something I didn’t want to do.</p>

      • 1321

        31 December, 2016 - 11:29 am

        <blockquote><em><a href="#33022">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/lightbody">lightbody</a><a href="#33022">:</a></em></blockquote>
        <p>I’m glad that worked for you, Chrome has the same feature but I can understand why you may suspect its part of the scam.&nbsp; I get loads of people bring computers in for repair with this.</p>

  • 180

    30 December, 2016 - 2:40 pm

    <p>I was trying to find a workaround, but yeah, doesn’t seem like there is one.</p>

    • 124

      Premium Member
      30 December, 2016 - 6:42 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#32922">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/Polycrastinator">Polycrastinator</a><a href="#32922">:</a></em></blockquote>
      <p>Seems alfrew and jimchamplin&nbsp;have a fix.&nbsp; I have done this kill edge in task manager and the open edge quickly click the x on the offending tab and close it.&nbsp; worked a couple times.&nbsp;</p>

  • 2233

    Premium Member
    31 December, 2016 - 5:06 pm

    <p>Another point of why I always go back to Chrome. &nbsp;I truly feel like Microsoft should have rolled with IE until Edge was ready and a completely separate app. &nbsp;Hell, if they had just used Webkit, they could of at least had a cross platform push.</p>
    <p>You have to really care about Microsoft to keep trying to use Edge and there aren’t enough of ‘us’ to support this browser.</p>

    • 1377

      Premium Member
      01 January, 2017 - 12:11 am

      <p><em><a href="#33040">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/ChristopherCollins">ChristopherCollins</a><a href="#33040">:</a></em></p>
      <blockquote><em>. . . You have to really care about Microsoft to keep trying to use Edge . . .</em></blockquote>
      <p>Dunno. Masochism could be another reason for Edge users.</p>

    • 7631

      01 January, 2017 - 5:14 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#33040">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/ChristopherCollins">ChristopherCollins</a><a href="#33040">:</a></em></blockquote>
      <blockquote><em>While I agree that Edge has its issues, there are still some advantages in using it. Text rendering in HiDPI displays is still better than on Chrome, or any other browser.</em></blockquote>
      <blockquote><em>Edge has also a clean look which personally I like a lot. After completely uninstalling the Adblock extension and disabling flash, I can say that I almost never experience any issues with Edge. The good thing is that it can only get better. So for me, Edge is my preferred browser and Chrome my number 2 choice.</em></blockquote>

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