Visual Studio has an embedded browser, but it uses the IE 7 render path?! Really, that is pretty messed up.
and worse it can cause the Internet to break
Thankfully, you can fix this yourself with a quick registry addition. Note: Fiddling with the registry can break your device, so be careful and this carries the usual “this works on my machine” and it is your own risk for doing this.
The key you need to care about is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION
Note: the Wow6432Node bit is needed since Visual Studio is a 32bit process. In there, add a new registry key of DWORD type named: devenv.exe
I set the value to (HEX) 2af9 – since I have IE 11 on my Windows 8.1 machine, but you can pick from the list of options to best suit your needs and now it just works!
No issues on GitHub
A much better looking user agent.
