As far as I know, all in game online services of TS3 still use Internet Explorer in the background. Things like Store content downloads, online login etc all use IE. The most I am worried about here is Store downloads. So I am curious, will this affect TS3? I apologize if this information is wrong, and forum admins, feel free to delete this discussion if necessary. Thank you!
Relevant article about this on Windows website:
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/05/19/the-future-of-internet-explorer-on-windows-10-is-in-microsoft-edge/
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I hope they respond. It would be nice to know if our Store Stuff will be ... gone. Plus a whole expansion based on Simporting.
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It does effect the launcher though.The launcher requires IE.That's the first thing that is
recommended to clear when the launcher acts up, is IE.
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To give it an analogy, although this may resonate better with Mac users than Windows, think of QuickTime. Even if you never used QT's own picture and movie viewers, the technology was always there for other applications that may have required it to use. Am not saying the game uses QT, again this is just an analogy and maybe not a very good one but the first one that came to mind.
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My laptop never came with Internet Explorer on it only Microsoft Edge.
My launcher and the store work through that.
Check if you have iexplore.exe by going to C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer, if you have that program then you have Internet Explorer on your computer.
Getting rid of this:
Absolute nightmare. Maybe.
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According to Microsoft's information concerning 'Edge', they have already stated Edge has IE mode built into it.
"Not only is Microsoft Edge a faster, more secure and more modern browsing experience than Internet Explorer, but it is also able to address a key concern: compatibility for older, legacy websites and applications. Microsoft Edge has Internet Explorer mode (“IE mode”) built in, so you can access those legacy Internet Explorer-based websites and applications straight from Microsoft Edge."
At least one responder here says they use Edge with no issue.
I think @mw1525 has the right idea. The behind the scenes technology of IE is not going away, it is shifting to IE mode under the cover of MS Edge. And only on Win 10, as some players might still be on Win 7 or 8.1 and not necessarily have MS Edge installed even though it is available to them.
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Even if it causes problems, I am pretty sure they can update and insert some version of chromium into the game to make it work again.
The most recent insider preview build has IE removed. If anyone exists on this forum that are in the insider program, this can be tested right now:
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2021/05/21/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-21387/
You can get to those options from the Control Panel-->Internet Options so hopefully that will still work when IE will be retired.
https://wired.com/story/internet-explorer-browser-dead/
The only time I run IE is to clear the cache files.
Thank you, logion. Good to know if I install Sims3 on my laptop.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3619615/microsoft-sets-ies-date-with-death-kind-of.amp.html
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https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/991317/my-sims-stories/p1?new=1
Yes, I once uninstalled IE and and played TS3 fine for weeks or months, then finally encountered the launcher issue that requires clearing IE cache, so I had to re-install it back then and I've kept it for only that, lolol.
That was, however, a bit before Microsoft started massively pushing Edge, so hopefully we'll have a workaround sometime.
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