Notification tab keeps loading on Edge for Android

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Users reported that the notification tab on Discourse forums keeps loading indefinitely when using Edge for Android, with screenshots confirming the issue. The problem also occurs in Free Adblocker Browser for Android. Testing on meta confirmed the same behavior. The affected Edge version is 46.06.4.5160, which is outdated compared to Chromium updates. j.jaffeux noted Edge’s lag in updates and suggested upgrading. robotnjik confirmed the issue is resolved in Edge Beta for Android. Falco proposed detecting the EdgA user-agent string to fall back to an HTML-only version, since newer Edge uses Edg. martin identified the root cause as a JavaScript incompatibility and fixed it via a commit: 814aa64. The team plans to improve fallback behavior for older browsers, but upgrading Edge is recommended in the meantime.

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Members on our forums who use Edge for Android reported that notification tab keeps loading without showing notifications.

I was able to repo this using Edge on Android phone:

Screenshot_20210806-094321_Edge
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Any ideas why this is happening?

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Also happening in Free Adblocker Browser for Android.

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Can you reproduce this on meta?

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Yes, it’s the same issue:

Screenshot_20210809-095414_Edge
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Are you able to tell me what version of edge for Android you have please ?

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I installed it couple of days ago to check out the issue.

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Two of our users report the same problem on Android 10 and 11… Edge 46.06.4.5160.

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This is what I was suspecting, edge has been for long time way behind chromium updates, it should now be possible to update it too a much newer version.

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I tried Edge Beta for Android and everything works fine. Hopefully they will update Edge app soon.

Thank you all for the feedback!

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Cool, we will still work on having something better than a white screen, but if you can update yes it’s better :wink:

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I think we can detect the EdgA UA string and make it use the HTML only version. The new version uses the Edg string.

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This was a browser incompatibility in our JavaScript code, should be fixed by:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/814aa64a5d089d25f893c334714f2feac8d2a4ae

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