Enormous number of disruptive update notifs

[Triarite]

Preflight Checklist

• [X] Microsoft Edge is still installed (see issue 26)
• [X] Running microsoft-edge:https://google.com redirects successfully
• [x] Microsoft Edge is selected in any "How do you want to open this?" box (if applicable)

Install Type

New Install

Install Mode

Active Mode

Steps to reproduce

Occurs randomly

✔️ Expected Behavior

It would give me a pop-up asking me to update. This pop-up would not remain at the front of the screen or occur multiple times

❌ Actual Behavior

Occasionally, seemingly at random, MSER will give me not only an always-at-front update notif that disrupts me (when I'm gaming especially), but it sometimes will also appear countless times, like in the attached image.

Microsoft Windows version

21H2 OS Build 19044.2006

Other Software

No response

[Triarite]

I would like either a fix, or preferably, a way to disable update notif's entirely

[rcmaehl]

Worse I've ever seen this. I'm assuming some program is using the embedded webview on your computer and causing that. I'll see if I can get a test build that fixes that this evening.

[xerz-one]

Would support adding an option to disable notifications (and another one for autoupdate) even if this bug gets fixed, particularly since I have installed MSER to people who don't know about its existence nor understand English and the popups merely become a repetitive annoyance.

[rcmaehl]

Would support adding an option to disable notifications (and another one for autoupdate) even if this bug gets fixed, particularly since I have installed MSER to people who don't know about its existence nor understand English and the popups merely become a repetitive annoyance.

Disabling updates is already supported.

1. Open regedit
2. Navigate to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies
3. Create a key for Robert Maehl Software
4. Create a subkey for MSEdgeRedirect
5. Create a DWORD for NoUpdates
6. Set DWORD to 1

Alternatively: Save this file as a .reg and double click it to import into the registry NoUpdates.saveas.reg.txt

I'll add an an extra for no notifications at all.

https://github.com/rcmaehl/MSEdgeRedirect/wiki/Deploying-MSEdgeRedirect

[rcmaehl]

This should be improved slightly per 5f9f4b8

Still working on getting the solution working to remove the messages entirely