Forums Bug Reports [7.43.1418]: $url not reading MS Edge

Hello,

I am trying to access the $url from Microsoft Edge in Windows 10 but the results are $null, probably the $url is not yet compatitable with that new microsoft's browser so i report it as bug and not as feature in case that it should work in MS Edge because it's an Core-Included in Microsoft's 10 OS.

MS Edge Version: 25.10586.0.0
MS Edge HTML Version: 13.10586

- Thanks!

$url is for mIRC addresses (ATL+U). Maybe you mean /url.

I can confirm. Did not work.

Regards.

Read the help file (/help $url)

It says:

$url
Returns the currently active URL in your Web Browser.

Thanks for your bug report. It looks like Microsoft Edge does not support DDE, which means that the standard method of using WWW_GetWindowInfo via DDE will not work.

Unfortunately, there does not seem to be another method of retrieving the URL from Microsoft Edge (or Google Chrome), other than a hack that requires searching for window class names (which can change over time) of browsers, using the AccessibleObjectFromWindow() API to iterate through thousands of child objects while performing a regular expression match on returned values to find an item that looks like a URL in the hope (since it is not guaranteed) that it is the active URL. To make matters more complicated, Edge and Chrome do not include http:// or https:// in the result, so there is no way to retrieve that. This method does not sound very reliable.

After experimenting with the method I mentioned in the previous post, I have decided to include it in the next version. It is not perfect and will break if a browser changes its class name or the method it uses to store data in accessible objects. However, for the time being, it makes $url usable with most browsers in most situations. This change will be in the next version.

I try to use the $url when the MS Edge is the active browser using the new build 1808 but mIRC stucks and not responding in result of crash.

Also when i have Firefox and MS Edge open and the active is MS Edge the $url still catching the Firefox and not the currently active browser.

Video: http://goo.gl/8RLzsX

Thanks for your feedback. If you leave it running, does mIRC eventually become available? Or does it remain frozen permanently?

It becomes available.

I use this to test the seconds:



Results: is -> 30.75

Some times the took time is about 0.852ms but $url is always $null.

Thanks, the issue appears to be with the regex pattern I am using. I originally tested the new $url with the newer regex routines which were updated to fix a number of regex bugs. However, they were reverted to v7.43 in the latest beta as they broke backwards compatibility. I will be using a simpler regex URL for the new $url that will be in the next beta.

That said, what you are experiencing is a worst case scenario for the new $url method. Accessibility objects can number in the thousands which means that if mIRC does not detect a URL early on in the search, it will need to search through all objects. Unfortunately, there does not seem to be an alternative method of retrieving a URL from a modern browser.

$url doesn't work with Pale Moon (Firefox fork), either.

The new $url method has only been designed to work with the most widely used browsers. $url still attempts to use DDE initially, which is a standard method and works with all browsers that support it. Unfortunately, if a browser does not support DDE, it will not be possible to make it work with every different fork or flavour of browser.