Enabling Silverlight after End of Support Since the Silverlight end of life in October 2021, users have had to find a way to combat vulnerability in order to keep using it safely. Since Microsoft ended support for Silverlight, Browsium Ion …
Applies To All versions of Browsium Ion. Summary This document details the release dates, version numbers, and end-of-support dates for Browsium Ion General Distribution Releases (GDRs) – releases that are available for evaluation kit download and are automatically updated on your …
Applies To: Users of Ion intending to verify their Flash archive is genuine. Summary We are providing a table of SHA384 checksums to help validate a Flash archive found online. This data comes from the original archives downloaded from Adobe’s …
The following minimum system specifications are required to run Browsium Ion. Operating System Windows 7 or later Windows Server 2008 R2 or later (for multi user terminal servers) Browsers Internet Explorer 8, 9, 10, or 11 .NET Framework Version 3.5 …
Applies To Browsium Client 4.5+ Summary If the current auto-enablement does not work in your environment you can use Group Policy to force the installation and enablement of the various extensions utilized by the Browsium Client. Details Microsoft Internet Explorer …
The Ion Administration Guide can be easily accessed from the Help menu of the Ion Configuration Manager. You can also download it directly from our website.
Applies to Ion 3.6 or later Internet Explorer Windows 10 Summary This article assumes that users have access to the Ion Configuration Manager, access to a copy of the 32-bit Flash ActiveX control file and are familiar with creating and …
Applies To: All versions of Browsium Client for customers using Group Policy to install/enable the Chrome and/or Chromium Edge extension. Summary We have moved the XML and CRX files for the Chrome and Chromium Edge extensions to a new, high …
Applies to All Browsium Software Summary This article highlights both the system requirements and average CPU, memory and disk impacts on a modern business-class desktop workstation. We’re providing this data based off of a system consisting of a quad-core desktop …
Applies To Ion, All Versions Java 1.8 and below Summary Earlier versions of Java browser plugins executed Java applets within the browser process itself, while the more recent versions Java have designed their plugins to execute in a separate process …
Applies to Ion 3.0 and above. Summary Some legacy web applications utilize web servers which may not properly specify secure protocol versions, or may specify versions that are should not be supported by default due to security policies. Ion v3 …
Applies To Ion, all versions. Summary When you generalize an image via sysprep, the certificates placed during the Browsium Ion installation are removed. You will need to replace these once the image has been deployed to machines. To facilitate the …
Applies To Ion, all versions. Summary System configurations where the default 64-bit Java installation is Java 8 update 144 that also have Enhanced Protected Mode (EPM) enabled will encounter an error when attempting to perform a java swap using a …
Applies To: Browsium Ion 3.5 on Windows 7 or later with Java 6u4 thru 6u7 Summary A change to Java introduced by Oracle in Java 7 update 71 and Java 8 update 25 creates an incompatibility in the Java cache between …
Applies To Ion 4.0+ Summary When using Limited Java profiles, the generated deployment rule set is visible inside of Java Control Panel. When viewing the generated deployment rule set, you will see a notice saying that a time stamp is not …
Applies To: Browsium Ion 3.x (this setting is NOT required for invoking Java 1.6u10 or later when using Ion 3.5) Summary Microsoft began blocking out-of-date ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer, particularly old versions of Java, on September 9th (as outlined …
Applies To: Browsium Ion 3.0 and later with Microsoft App-V 4.x and 5.x Summary When running Browsium Ion in an environment where Microsoft App-V is used to package Internet Explorer and the App-V policy LOCAL_INTERACTION_ALLOWED=TRUE has not been set, the …
Applies to Browsium Client 4.0 and newer Summary Various endpoint protection or virus scan suites that employ active memory monitoring can sometimes flag the Browsium Client for various security exceptions. This is due to the way that the Browsium Client …
Applies To Ion 3.0 – 3.4. (Does not apply to Ion 3.5) Summary Browsium Ion enables freezing the versions of components required to run your web applications at a ‘known good state’. This often includes running a specific version of …
Applies To Ion 3.1 and later Summary In rare cases, a server may return a response with no ‘Content-Type’ HTTP header field. Ion assumes these responses have the ‘application/octet-stream’ binary MIME type and will not make changes to the body, …
Applies To Ion 3.0 and above. Summary Disabling Data Execution Prevention (DEP) for Internet Explorer is not recommended, but some legacy web applications may require disabling DEP in order to allow the application to function as expected. Ion v3 offers …
Applies to Ion 3 and above. Symptom You see an “Object not found” or an “Object method XXYY not found” error while loading a webpage that uses a Java 1.6 applet. Workarounds/Alternatives Configure a profile for this site that only …
Applies to Ion 3.0 or later Summary When creating a profile in Ion v3, default User Agent (UA) string values are assigned based on the selected Rendering Mode. Details Many legacy web applications were designed to operate on a specific …
Applies to Ion 3.0 and above. Summary By default, Ion v3 Projects are set to clear the Internet Explorer’s cache at application startup (generally on windows user login). Cache clearing is designed to ensure that Ion will properly display managed …
Applies to Versions 4.0 through 4.3.0 of Browsium Catalyst, Ion and Proton Summary On certain machines the Browsium Management Service (BrowsiumService in Services) can fail to start due to dependencies on other services that are slow to start on the …
Applies To: Browsium Ion 3.3 or later Browsium Catalyst 3.0 or later Summary Starting with Browsium Ion 3.3 and Browsium Catalyst 3.0, configurations can no longer be stored in the registry. Instead, a single registry value points to the Ion …
Applies to Ion 3.0 and above Summary Browsium Ion 3 removed the “Script Injection” feature. Script Injection wrapped arbitrary JavaScript in <script> tags and inserted them into an html page. To inject JavaScript with Browsium Ion 3 and later, use …
Applies To Upgrades from Browsium Client 4.1 and 4.2 to 4.3 Summary Upgrading to the latest version of Browsium Client from versions 4.1 or 4.2 will delete the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\[Wow6432Node\]Policies\Browsium key from the registry. After the upgrade completes, the Browsium Client …
Applies To Ion 3.0 and above. Summary Ion 3.0 deprecated the Profile property “Use Legacy FTP” setting, which emulated IE 6’s behavior of opening FTP URLs in Windows Explorer. The guidance below is designed to help customers that still require …
Applies To Ion/Catalyst/Proton Versions 4.3 and above Summary This KB provides guidance on how to install Browsium products on machines without internet access. If this guidance is not followed before installers are started, you may notice one of the following …
Applies to Ion 2.x or Ion 3.0 Summary You may need to uninstall Ion from a system before installing a new version, because the Administration Tools no longer needed on a given system or because you no longer need to …
Applies To Browsium Client 4.0 and later Summary In order to support Internet Explorer’s Enhanced Protected Mode, Browsium’s Client software is now packaged in an executable (.EXE) that contains both 32 and 64 bit components. Command line switches used with previous …
The Browsium Ion 4.7.1 Release Notes provide specific details on what’s new and known issues for this version. Browsium-Ion-4.7.1-ReleaseNotes.pdf
Applies to Ion 3.0 and above. Summary Ion v2 provided the ability to directly manage Internet Explorer session behavior for a given Profile, making it possible to enable Internet Explorer 7’s (and earlier) session management behavior on latest version of …
Applies To: Browsium Catalyst prior to version 4.0 and Browsium Ion prior to version 3.7 Summary Starting with the release of IE10, Microsoft added an additional layer of security called Enhanced Protected Mode. Enhanced Protected Mode is designed to (in …
Applies To All Ion versions. Summary Use the following steps to determine what version of Ion components you have installed on your system. Resolution There are two Ion components that you should check separately: the Browsium Ion Client and the …
Applies to Ion 2.x Summary This knowledge base article has been created to address an issue when the Browsium Ion Root Certificate is created but fails to work correctly. This issue has been reported on systems where the ‘Everyone’ group …
Applies To Browsium Catalyst 3.0 or later Browsium Ion 3.0 or later … with XenApp 5.0, 6.0 and 6.5 Summary When an end user disconnects from a XenApp application that utilizes Ion or Catalyst, the user’s session might not close properly …
Many organizations still rely on legacy applications built using ActiveX technology. It is essential to understand which ActiveX controls are in use as those organizations look to adequately use Edge IE Mode after the Internet Explorer end of life date. …
Applies To: Browsium Ion and Catalyst (all versions) Summary Starting with Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft added the ability to “pin” sites by dragging and dropping the icon from the address bar onto the desktop or taskbar. Pinned sites can also …
Applies To All versions of Browsium Ion and Browsium Catalyst Details Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit Editions include both a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version of Internet Explorer. The 32-bit version of Internet Explorer can …
Applies to: Ion 2.x Catalyst 2.x or 1.x Details: Using “Absolute URI” and “Is” in your rule is handy when you need an exact match to a very specific page, but don’t need everything else on the site to use an …
The Browsium Ion 4.7.0 Release Notes provide specific details on what’s new and known issues for this version. Browsium-Ion-4.7.0-ReleaseNotes.pdf
Applies to Ion 2.x or 3.0 Summary It is important to understand the traffic sent to and from a web application in order to create complete sets of rules to render it with Ion. To make it easier to diagnosis …
The Browsium Ion 4.6 Release Notes provide specific details on what’s new and known issues for this version. Browsium-Ion-4.6-ReleaseNotes.pdf
Applies to Ion 3.x or later Windows 7 only Summary This article assumes that users have access to the Ion Configuration Manager, access to a copy of the Flash 9 ActiveX control (flash9f.ocx), and are familiar with creating and configuring …
Applies to Ion 3.2 or earlier Summary During the evaluation of Ion, clients may have local Group Policies set to the machine to verify Group Policy support with Ion. Those settings may continue to stick even after the Policies being …
Applies to Ion 2.x or Ion 3.0 Summary The Ion Configuration Manager tries to make it simple to create rules to match your web applications. In general, the basic rule condition (e.g. “Begins With” or “Includes”) selections will suffice for …
Yes, Ion was designed to work perfectly in virtual desktop/terminal services/Citrix environments where resource constraints play an important factor in determining user load levels. The Ion rendering process consumes a minimal amount of memory when active (exact memory usage varies, but …
Applies to Ion 2.x and 3.x Summary The Ion Configuration Manager requires the Browsium Ion Client also be installed in order to function. Attempting to run the Configuration Manager without the client already installed may result in a crash in …
Summary Browsium Ion Update 3 (version 2.0.3) stops unexpectedly when a user logs in to their computer. Issue When an administrative or standard user logs in to a computer that has Ion 2.0.3 installed, but is not the user who …
Applies To Ion 2.x (This issue has been fixed in Ion 3.0.) Summary With Ion Update 3, when a standard user logs in and Ion loads, or when a standard user starts the Browsium Ion controller manually, they may see …
Applies to Ion 2.x or 3.x Summary The following information is requested when submitting bug reports to Browsium for Ion and UniBrows issues. Please follow these steps to make sure that the Browsium team has all relevant information with which …
Applies to Ion 2.x or Ion 3.0 Summary As the Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer security landscape changes, Microsoft occasionally “kills” an old ActiveX control when that control is found to have serious security issues. These events typically occur when …
Applies to Ion 2.x or Ion 3.0 Summary Ion gives you the ability to specify custom registry settings for a given profile. These settings apply only to that specific profile, and do not affect the default browser, other Ion profiles …
Applies to Ion 2.x or Ion 3.0 Summary This article is designed to introduce Ion administrators to the concept of using Ion profiles to customize, override or insert JavaScript in web pages using the custom scripts feature in Ion profiles. …
Applies To Ion 2.x Summary On clean Windows machines with no Java installed, Ion administrators may see a Java warning dialog when running the Ion Configuration Launcher. Details On some clean Windows machines (including XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Servers), …
Applies to Ion 2.x Overview Although the Microsoft Java VM (known as the MSJVM) has not been available since 1998, some organizations still use the MSJVM to run some of their internal applications. The MSJVM is another Java VM, just …
Applies to Ion 2.x Summary This article details how and when to disable or enable support for DEP/NX within Ion profiles. What is DEP/NX? At a high level, DEP and NX are hardware-level security improvements created out of the security crisis of the …
Summary Ion introduces a new feature called “Content Override” which allows IT pros to replace an entire page that would normally be loaded by a website with a new version of the page in the different location. Through this feature …
Applies To Ion 2.x Summary Ion profiles are the core of how Ion allows you to run legacy web applications inside newer browsers like IE8 and IE9. This article details how and when it is appropriate to use the “Limited” …
Applies To Ion 2.x Summary This article details the function of and use for the Hang Prevention Timeout feature in Ion. Feature introduction The Hang Prevention Timeout feature is useful in situations where users are navigating to sites using …
Applies to Ion 2.x Summary Ion Configuration Manager displays an unhandled exception error message when using Rule Tester tool without identifying a Project. Details Users may see the following error dialog box displayed when using the Ion Configuration Rule Tester …
Applies To Ion 2.x Summary Starting with IE6 for Windows XP SP2 and continuing through IE7, IE8 and IE9, Microsoft included ways to toggle new security features and behaviors on and off in their newer browsers. These toggles, called FEATURE …
The Browsium Ion 4.5 Release Notes provide specific details on what’s new and known issues for this version. Browsium-Ion-4.5-ReleaseNotes.pdf
The Browsium Ion 4.4.2 Release Notes provide specific details on what’s new and known issues for this version. Browsium-Ion-4.4.2-ReleaseNotes.pdf
The Browsium Ion 4.4.0 Release Notes provide specific details on what’s new and known issues for this version. Browsium-Ion-4.4.0-ReleaseNotes.pdf
The Browsium Ion 4.3.1 Release Notes provide specific details on what’s new and known issues for this version. Browsium-Ion-4.3.1-ReleaseNotes.pdf
The Browsium Ion 4.3 Release Notes provide specific details on what’s new and known issues for this version. Browsium-Ion-4.3.0-ReleaseNotes.pdf
The Browsium Ion 4.2 Release Notes provide specific details on what’s new and known issues for this version. Browsium-Ion-4.2.0-ReleaseNotes.pdf
The Browsium Ion 4.1.1 Release Notes provide specific details on what’s new and known issues for this version. Browsium-Ion-4.1.1-ReleaseNotes.pdf
The Browsium Ion 4.1 Release Notes provide specific details on what’s new and known issues for this version. Browsium-Ion-4.1.0-ReleaseNotes.pdf
The Browsium Ion 4.0 Release Notes provide specific details on what’s new and known issues for this version. Browsium-Ion-4.0.0-ReleaseNotes.pdf
The Browsium Ion 3.7.2 Release Notes provide specific details on what’s new and known issues for this version. Browsium-Ion-3.7.2-ReleaseNotes.pdf
The Browsium Ion 3.7.1 Release Notes provide specific details on what’s new and known issues for this version. Browsium-Ion-3.7.1-ReleaseNotes.pdf
The Browsium Ion 3.7 Release Notes provide specific details on what’s new and known issues for this version. Browsium-Ion-3.7.0-ReleaseNotes.pdf
The Browsium Ion 3.6.1 Release Notes provide specific details on what’s new and known issues for this version. Browsium-Ion-3.6.1-ReleaseNotes.pdf
The Browsium Ion 3.6.0 Release Notes provide specific details on what’s new and known issues for this version. Browsium-Ion-3.6.0-ReleaseNotes.pdf
The Browsium Ion 3.5.0 Release Notes provide specific details on what’s new and known issues for this version. Browsium-Ion-3.5.0-ReleaseNotes.pdf
The Browsium Ion 3.4.2 Release Notes provide specific details on what’s new and known issues for this version. Browsium-Ion-3.4.2-ReleaseNotes.pdf
The Browsium Ion 3.4.1 Release Notes provide specific details on what’s new and known issues for this version. Browsium-Ion-3.4.1-ReleaseNotes.pdf
The Browsium Ion 3.4 Release Notes provide specific details on what’s new and known issues for this version. Browsium-Ion-3.4.0-ReleaseNotes.pdf
The Browsium Ion 3.3.1 Release Notes provide specific details on what’s new and known issues for this version. Browsium-Ion-3.3.1-ReleaseNotes.pdf
The Browsium Ion 3.3 Release Notes provide specific details on what’s new and known issues for this version. Browsium-Ion-3.3.0-ReleaseNotes.pdf
The Browsium Ion 3.2 Release Notes provide specific details on what’s new and known issues for this version. Browsium-Ion-3.2.0-ReleaseNotes.pdf
The Browsium Ion 3.1 release notes provide specific details on what’s new and known issues for this version. Browsium-Ion-3.1.0-ReleaseNotes.pdf
The Browsium Ion 3.0.1 release notes provide specific details on what’s new and known issues for this version. Browsium-Ion-3.0.1-ReleaseNotes.pdf
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