Windows 10: Google breaks Gmail attachment names in Microsoft Edge

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  1. WinLatest New Member

    Google breaks Gmail attachment names in Microsoft Edge


    Microsoft’s new Chromium-based Edge browser has been in public testing for more than a year and it’s a lot like Chrome, which also uses Chromium. Using Chromium and Blink rendering engine was supposed to help with compatibility, but some Google services are reportedly not working properly in Edge.

    As some people have discovered, Google services sniff ‘Microsoft Edge’ in the user-agent header and spurious warnings are displayed.

    All browsers including Edge, Chrome and Vivaldi have their own ‘User Agent, which is a line of text that is sent from the browser to the website that you open.

    The User Agents are used to present a better experience for the particular browser by the websites. While User Agents are a great way to improve the web browsing experience, it has been misused by some web developers and even the bigger tech companies.

    In 2019, users noticed that Google is blocking Google Meet, Google Docs, YouTube Music and other services in Microsoft’s Chromium-based browser, and changing the User Agent to ‘Chrome – Windows’ from ‘Edg – Windows’ makes the page work just fine.

    It appears that the search engine giant’s services are still sniffing Microsoft Edge and few other browsers. As noted by Microsoft Edge engineer Eric Lawrence, Google’s Gmail sniffs the Chromium Edge and it incorrectly returns the name of the attachments.

    “When found, GMail returns a |Content-Disposition: attachment| header with a filename encoded incorrectly, resulting in Unicode characters being replaced with underscores,” Lawrence said.

    According to Microsoft engineer, Google may have a bad UASniff-to-NonStandardsBehavior table somewhere and the approach they’re serving in Chromium Edge should be used for IE8 and lower.

    “When they see the “Edg/” token in the User-Agent, they encode the Filename attribute of the Content-Disposition header using raw bytes rather than RFC-specified encoded UTF8,” he noted.

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    As a result, the attachments with Unicode texts are saved with an incorrect name in Microsoft Edge.

    Another Chromium-based browser Vivaldi has had similar issues with Google services, which they resolved by displaying a User Agent that appears to be identical to Chrome.

    “Google services sniffing for “Vivaldi” was a big part of the reason behind us dropping the user agent altogether in our last update,” the company said.

    While this could be termed as another accident or misunderstanding, Google does have a tendency to “outfox” other companies.

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  2. BulldogXX Win User

    Gmail and Microsoft Edge

    Microsoft Edge is a web browser. It doesn't deliver the mail. It only connects you to Gmail. If you're having a problem with Gmail, I suggest Google's official

    GMail Help Forum
    .
     
    BulldogXX, Feb 9, 2020
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  3. Edge Search Does Not Permit Change of Region


    I got these suggestions from the Microsoft Community forum.No. 1 worked for me:

    Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community. I am glad to assist you on this.
    We have reproduce the issue here and we are able to access non-regional search for google using Microsoft Edge.
    I would suggest you to try the below steps and check if it helps.
    Step 1:
    Clear browsing data option of Microsoft Edge and check if you face the issue. To do so perform the steps below.

    1. Click on the More actions icon next to the feedback icon present on top right corner of the Project Spartan homepage.
    2. Select Settings and click on Choose what to clear.
    3. Check the boxes Browsing history, Cookies and saved website data and Cached data and files and click on Clear.
    Step 2:
    I suggest you to create a new user account and check if the issue occurs.

    1. Go to Settings.
    2. Choose Accounts and then select Family and other users.
    3. Select add someone else on this PC.
    4. Enter a user name and hit next.
    5. Click on Finish.
    6. Sign out from the current Account and Log into the new account.
    Step 3:
    It could also happen because of network issue. I suggest you to try with different network connection and check if it helps.
     
    hurricane51, Feb 9, 2020
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  4. Pawan1709 Win User

    Google breaks Gmail attachment names in Microsoft Edge

    download files attached to gmail

    Hi,

    Thank you for posting your query on the Microsoft Community.

    I understand how you feel about the situation. Let me assist you in resolving the
    issue.


    • Do you get any error message while downloading or attaching a file?
    Method 1:

    I suggest you clear the Clear browsing data option of Microsoft Edge and check if you face the issue. To do so perform the steps below.

    1. Click on theMore actions icon next to the feedback icon present on top right corner of the Edge.

    2. Select Settings and click on
    Choose what to clear.

    3. Check the boxes Browsing history, Cookies and saved website data and Cached data and files and click on
    Clear.

    I suggest you to contact the Gmail support for further assistance on the issue.

    Hope this information is helpful. Please do let us know if you need further assistance, we’ll be glad to assist you.
     
    Pawan1709, Feb 9, 2020
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