Windchill Embedded Browser

[CR_9888056]

Out of curiosity, does anyone know why Windchill still uses Internet Explorer for its default embedded browser? Last I checked, IE is more or less obsolete with limited support. I know you can change the browser, but just thought it was strange IE is still the default.

[VladimirN · Accepted solution]

"What is PTC's future plan to support Windchill on Microsoft edge browser?": https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS346968

[lhoogeveen]

Creo is switching the default embedded browser to Chromium in Creo 7.0.7.0 and Creo 8.0.3.0 - CS356984 - Default browser in Creo Parametric changed to Chromium. It looks like IE won't be an option in Creo 9.

[CR_9888056]

Thanks everyone for the replies. Glad to hear PTC will finally be moving on to a different default browser.

[STEVEG]

We ran into some issues with the Chrome internal browser so I hope they fix them by then.  However, I do not remember issues.  I believe they were not show-stoppers but they were close.

[LawrenceS]

I some of the issues were scale and zoom related that needed manual fixing and then reset after restarting Creo.  I think there were some other display issues too.  This is all on Creo 4 and both WC11 and WC12.  Hopefully, chrome will behave better for us when on Creo7.

[LawrenceS]

Although inevitable, I will miss IE for the primary reason of ease of highlighting (CTRL+LMB highlights an entire field) and copy/pasting.  There seems to be an extraordinary necessity with PDMLink to copy/paste field info and the triple-click in modern browsers is not as fast, does not highlight the same, and pastes with horrible formatting (e.g. when copy/paste fields with hyperlinks to an email, they paste inside a separate line cell table!).  If anyone has found a better workaround to ease of highlighting/copying/pasting in modern browsers please let me know.  I have been testing the workaround below but not ideal

Partial workaround:

Testing using Link copier extension (GLH Utils - Link Copier - Chrome Web Store (google.com)) seems to work well for copying/pasting links but doesn't help with other field info...and is an extension so far from ideal.