It might be a good idea to accept that $url was based on not so reliable method, to keep it working more or less, and to extend it to support a parameter, a classname or the name of the executable, if khaled can work from that, without looking at millions of classes, that would be reliable and would allow support for any browser, which the current method doesn't provide.
Unfortunately, the class/executable name is the least of our worries.
For example, the issue reported in this thread is due to Chrome changing its accessibility format, not the class/executable name.
Every browser uses a different accessibility format.
The only possibly reliable method would be for $url to search through every accessibility item for a URL-like match, instead of trying to perform some intelligent filtering like it does now. But this would be even slower than it is now. And it would get slower the more websites you have open.
I have also just found out that when Microsoft Edge is minimized, it no longer provides the URL via an accessibility search. Other browsers continue to provide the URL when minimized. So $url will always fail if Edge is being used and is minimized.
On a positive note, I found an API that allows mIRC to detect if Microsoft Edge is running as a background application, so that $url can skip looking through it.
