Adding Edge Browser Support

Note: Edge support is available as of WikiTraccs 1.31.x (to be announced)

WikiTraccs so far has been exclusively relying on Google Chrome as its built-in “automated browser”.

Now WikiTraccs adds the Microsoft Edge as an alternative - an often asked-for feature in corporate environments where Chrome might be hard to set up.

What Chrome is Being Used For

The automated browser is used whenever WikiTraccs needs a real browser session, for example, to interactively authenticate to Confluence or when Confluence features are only accessible through the UI.

Chrome currently powers:

• Interactive Login (cookie-based authentication) via a WikiTraccs-controlled browser window: Interactive Confluence Authentication

• Proxy Mode, routing Confluence API calls through the authenticated browser session: Confluence Authentication Overview

• Confluence Cloud whiteboard export (UI automation): Migrating Confluence Cloud Whiteboards

• draw.io preview image generation (render/export via the draw.io viewer): WikiTraccs Creates Draw.io Preview Images

Under the hood, WikiTraccs controls Chrome using Google’s Chrome WebDriver (ChromeDriver).

Usually, this works out of the box (Chrome installed + WebDriver auto-download), but in locked-down environments you may need to allowlist endpoints or configure paths explicitly, which can be tedious (for example ChromeBinaryPath, WebDriverDirPath, ChromeDriverVersionOverride).

Information about Chrome, its prerequisites, and troubleshooting can be found here:

• Prerequisites
• Endpoint Reference
• Connectivity Issues
• Locked-Down Environments

Using Edge Instead of Chrome

You can tell WikiTraccs to use Edge instead of Chrome in the settings.

In WikiTraccs, click Configure Transformation in the menu bar, then check Use Edge browser instead of Chrome. From then on, WikiTraccs will use Edge instead of Chrome.

Note that Chrome is the default setting, so when you don’t configure anything, WikiTraccs will use Chrome.

Documentation will be updated accordingly, but it may take a bit of time to reflect that change in all relevant places. When reading “Chrome”, add “or Edge” in your mind.

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