Dear;
Out IT department installs and rolls out VDI clients to our users. Therefore they require msi and some special tools/procedures to minimize the loading times of the VDI to optimize the user experience.
The issue described below is specifically relevant in these operational architectures. And for others who rely on MSI installers.
Since ages we had dataminer installed on clients with the default engine; Cube decides.
If I choose a manual option; I have the choice between Chromium; Edge or internet explorer.
If I install the cube client from the msi delivered on the iso; cefsharp is not being installed; but the option is still Default Engine (Cube decides) but with lost features because cefsharp is automatically not installed.
So I have some questions; as I would like to understand the effect of each choice better.
Q1. Can somebody clarify the added or missing features between the 3 options Chromium; Edge or internet Explorer. What does this exactly do? and how does this relate to cefsharp?
Q2. how good is the Default Engine (Cube Decides); deciding feature if with msi installation where I am missing features due to missing cefsharp installation; but; with my current observed knowledge; Edge has no issues. should he then not default to Edge?
Q3. The Option "Internet Explorer"; is this still relevant anno 2025?
Suggestion:
- As cefsharp by default will not be installed; give an extra popup or information to the admin so he is aware of this. We lost a bit of time due to this information only available in the help files.
- also visualize in Cube; which decision Cube has made; if its setting is set to (Cube Decides). And if cef is not installed; it should at least give a active warning there to; not only when I try to select Chromium.
Hi Jan Piet,
Edge should be the way to go. It will actually become the default in DM10.5.9.
There is a small usecase with popups where the Edge engine has some issues, and the clients need the WebView2 component installed, but other than those, there isn't really a reason to use cefsharp.
There is still 1 use case that I know about for the Internet Explorer engine, and that is hosting ActiveX components, especially the VLC ActiveX Plugin to play rtsp streams. But in most use cases these streams could be HLS streams, not requiring the VLC plugin.
the answer given on the above will help us to decide to install cefsharp or simply use Edge as the plugin option. Currently Edge looks to be doing the job but I am unaware of any caveats