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Google is taking a proactive stance and blocking non-standard browsers when accessing GMail. Because of this we added a few settings to PWB starting with "3.05.8 CEF" that will allow PWB to access GMail. The new settings are as follows: [Browser]UserAgent= Sets Browser User Agent. Same as ...

Using the Edge User Agent minus the Chrome aspect also works.

"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/537.36 Edg/79.0.309.71"

Version 3.05.6 08-16-2019 Fixed/Changed: Changed to CEF 3770 Chrome 75 Fixed Alert dialog showing behind window when [Browser]AlwaysOnTop=True Changed Inactivity Timer to not reset on page load with [Inactivity]ResetOnNavigation=False Fixed error after clicking home immediately after print when forc...

Forgot to ask, what version of PWB are you using including the minor version number and HTML renderer, for example "3.05.7 CEF"?

--Scott

It looks like Google is actively blocking hosted webviews with Gmail 2FA enabled. https://magpcss.org/ceforum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=16717#p43024 The user agent workaround seems to work. C:\PWB\PWB.exe --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Sa...

After setting [Browser]KioskMode=True, what are the steps to recreate the issue?

For example:
1. start with URL ...
2. enter search into box
3. hit Enter key

--Scott

Try disabling the URL filter if you are using one.

[Security]
CheckURLAccess=False

--Scott

Are you using the newest version of PWB v3 CEF, "3.05.7"?

--Scott

PWB version 3.05.7 CEF/IE (11-16-2019) has been released and includes the following changes. See the "ReadMe.txt" file for complete change history. Version 3.05.7 12-16-2019 Fixed/Changed: Changed to CEF 3904 Chrome 78 Fixed background erase on minimize [Printer]ForcePrintPreview=True Enab...

Tim,

The information has been updated.

--Scott

You welcome.

We use PWB in our own facilities for general public use so if there is an issue we are usually on top of it.

--Scott

The setting is still available. Try adding the following to your INI file.

[PDFViewer]
UseInternalViewer=False

Please note, if the web site is not presenting the PDF file with a "PDF" file extension the external application will not open it.

--Scott

PWB version 3.05.6 CEF/IE (08-16-2019) has been released and includes the following changes. See the "ReadMe.txt" file for complete change history. Version 3.05.6 08-16-2019 Fixed/Changed: Changed to CEF 3770 Chrome 75 Fixed Alert dialog showing behind window when [Browser]AlwaysOnTop=True...

The Internet Explorer Web Browser Control PWB IE uses does not have a "compatibility mode". By default uses the version of Internet Explorer installed on the computer. You can set the Internet Explorer Browser Emulation in PWB with the [Browser]IEBrowserEmulation= setting. For example sett...

PWB v2 and PWB v3 IE use Internet Explorer as the HTML Rendering Engine. If a web page display mixed content you may receive a popup message asking "Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely". warnings.png The Windows User Profile needs to be adjusted to allo...