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jmshon
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

Upgrade your browser to use Dropbox

I tried to log in to the promotion 20GB Dropbox by Dell but I received this message once I clicked right button on the dropbox icon on my Windows 10, which is as follows: Upgrade your browser to us...
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Alexander K.28's avatar
Alexander K.28
Helpful | Level 5

Finally, I guess, I got everything and apparently it is not a bug in the browser identifying but frankly speaking I didn't expect Edge 18 to become unsupported. IE is understandable but not Edge 18. What I learned is that UWP WebView running Edge 18 browser even though I have Edg 89 installed on my system. I expected WebView to use the latest installed engine but it was not true. Thus, I would like to ask, to continue supporting Edge 18, without it all UWP apps using WebView for authorization with Dropbox will break. So far I don't see a way how to use Dropbox web authorization from UWP.

jmshon's avatar
jmshon
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

Because my main browsers are Chrome and firefox, I tried to log in this promotion dropbox once I removed the Edge on the control panel. But it is not still working.

  • nashworth's avatar
    nashworth
    Helpful | Level 5
    4 years ago

    I am experiencing the exact same issue with the Webview control in UWP, specifically in Xamarin developing in the UWP environment. Unless and until Microsoft can update the Webview control, Dropbox needs to continue supporting Edge 18 or there is no way to use the Dropbox API to authenticate a user to use Dropbox in our app any longer. There is no way, that I have found, to use the external browser in UWP to authorize a user and retrieve the token from the external browser. This is a breaking change that Dropbox has inflicted.

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