Otherwise, the active tab view goes to a Microsoft support page that explains why the site was redirected to Microsoft Edge. When a site is redirected from Internet Explorer to Microsoft Edge, the Internet Explorer tab that started loading the site is closed if it had no prior content.
The following browsing data will be imported: Favorites, Passwords, Search engines, open tabs, History, settings, cookies, and the Home Page.Įven if they don't give their consent by checking 'Always bring over my browsing data and preferences from Internet Explorer', they can click Continue browsing to continue their session.įinally, a website incompatibility banner, shown in the next screenshot, appears below the address bar for every redirection. This dialog explains why they're getting redirected and prompts for consent to copy their browsing data and preferences from Internet Explorer to Microsoft Edge.
On redirection to Microsoft Edge, users are shown the one-time dialog in the next screenshot.
For more information, see Request updates to the incompatible sites list Prerequisites Microsoft maintains a list of all sites that are known to be incompatible with Internet Explorer.
