Information on the WebBrowser control

[El!teHax0rPr0 Banned Posts:81 Threads:9 Reputation 15]

The web browser control uses internet explorer based on the version you have installed. With that said, it will ALWAYS render in IE7 for compatibility reasons. As far as I'm aware, the Web browser control comes with a memory leak that hasn't been fixed(it could have been, just haven't seen or found the documentation). Some say it's linked to IE7 and will fix itself when you update and other say you just garbage collect but apparently, that doesn't work either.


Of course you change the render version by adding in a registry key. Unfortunately, I don't know Visual basic, C# is the code I'm gonna provide. 


x64

Code:

 Microsoft.Win32.Registry.SetValue(@"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION", System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.FriendlyName, 11001);

x86

Code:

 Microsoft.Win32.Registry.SetValue(@"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION", System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.FriendlyName, 11001);

Now the problem with that code is, you have to be an admin while running it, elevated privileges . Cool thing is, we can put this in HKCU_ which doesn't require admin privileges.

Code:

Microsoft.Win32.Registry.SetValue(@"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION", System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.FriendlyName, 11001);

Now, you might ask how I got that number at the end there.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library..._emulation

That code will allow your web browser to display pages in IE11 edge mode.