Starting with Windows 10.0.15063 (Creators Edition), Edge has become a full Universal Windows Platform (UWP) App. This affectively means that EdgeDbg can no longer be used, however:

• BugId can debug UWP Apps, and edge is a known, pre-configured applications in BugId: simply run BugId.cmd edge [-- <URL>].

• WinDbg can debug UWP applications, but you must provide their full package name and application id. One way to find the full package name for Edge is to use powershell; the following command line will debug Edge in WinDbg:

  powershell windbg -plmPackage (Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge).PackageFullName -plmApp MicrosoftEdge [<URL>]

  A more comprehensive solution is to create a file called EdgeWinDbg.cmd with the following contents:

@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL
FOR /F "usebackq" %%I in (`POWERSHELL ^(Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge^).PackageFamilyName`) DO SET PackageFamilyName=%%I
FOR /F "usebackq" %%I in (`POWERSHELL ^(Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge^).PackageFullName`) DO SET PackageFullName=%%I

IF "%PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432%" == "AMD64" (
  SET OSISA=x64
) ELSE IF "%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%" == "AMD64" (
  SET OSISA=x64
) ELSE (
  SET OSISA=x86
)

IF NOT DEFINED WinDbg (
  CALL :SET_WINDBG_IF_EXISTS "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Kits\10\Debuggers\%OSISA%\WinDbg.exe"
  CALL :SET_WINDBG_IF_EXISTS "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Kits\8.1\Debuggers\%OSISA%\WinDbg.exe"
  CALL :SET_WINDBG_IF_EXISTS "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Kits\8.0\Debuggers\%OSISA%\WinDbg.exe"
  IF EXIST "%ProgramFiles(x86)%" (
    CALL :SET_WINDBG_IF_EXISTS "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Windows Kits\10\Debuggers\%OSISA%\WinDbg.exe"
    CALL :SET_WINDBG_IF_EXISTS "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Windows Kits\8.1\Debuggers\%OSISA%\WinDbg.exe"
    CALL :SET_WINDBG_IF_EXISTS "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Windows Kits\8.0\Debuggers\%OSISA%\WinDbg.exe"
  )
  IF NOT DEFINED WinDbg (
      ECHO - Cannot find WinDbg.exe, please set the "WinDbg" environment variable to the correct path.
      EXIT /B 1
  )
) ELSE (
  SET WinDbg="%WinDbg:"=%"
)
IF NOT EXIST %WinDbg% (
  ECHO - Cannot find WinDbg.exe at %WinDbg%, please set the "WinDbg" environment variable to the correct path.
  EXIT /B 1
)


IF EXIST "%LocalAppData%\Packages\%PackageFamilyName%\AC\MicrosoftEdge\User\Default\Recovery\Active" (
  RD /s /q "%LocalAppData%\Packages\%PackageFamilyName%\AC\MicrosoftEdge\User\Default\Recovery\Active"
)

IF "%~1" == "" (
  SET URL="http://%COMPUTERNAME%:28876/"
) ELSE (
  SET URL="%~1"
)
%WinDbg% -plmPackage "%PackageFullName%" -plmApp MicrosoftEdge %URL%

:SET_WINDBG_IF_EXISTS
  IF NOT DEFINED WinDbg (
    IF EXIST "%~1" (
      SET WinDbg="%~1"
    )
  )
  EXIT /B 0

A simple command line exe to start and debug the Microsoft Edge browser.

There are three ways to use the application. First, you can simply start Microsoft Edge:

EdgeDbg.exe <url>

Or you can start Microsoft Edge with all threads in all its processes suspended:

EdgeDbg.exe <url> --suspend

Finally, you can start Microsoft Edge and attach a debugger to the all associated processes.

EdgeDbg.exe <url> path\to\debugger.exe [debugger arguments]

Note: You can use @MicrosoftEdge@, @MicrosoftEdgeCP@, @browser_broker@, , @RuntimeBroker@, and @ApplicationFrameHost@ in the debugger arguments; these will be replaced by the decimal process id of these processes. You can also use @ProcessIds@, which will be replaced by the process ids of all four of these processes, separated by commas.

EdgeDbg will terminate any running instances of Microsoft Edge prior to starting the application. This means terminating all accessible processes that have loaded the MicrosoftEdge.exe, MicrosoftEdgeCP.exe, browser_broker.exe, RuntimeBroker.exe, or ApplicationFrameHost.exe executables.

Start Microsoft Edge and open "http://example.com":

H:\dev\C\EdgeDbg>EdgeDbg_x86.exe http://example.com
* Terminating any running instances of Microsoft Edge...
* Activating Microsoft Edge and opening http://example.com...
+ MicrosoftEdge.exe process id = 2744
* Waiting for MicrosoftEdgeCP.exe process to start...
+ MicrosoftEdgeCP.exe process id = 2748
+ RuntimeBroker.exe process id = 2936
+ browser_broker.exe process id = 3088
+ ApplicationFrameHost.exe process id = 1234

H:\dev\C\EdgeDbg>

This script demonstrates how to start Microsoft Edge and attach a debugger (WinDbg) before loading a page. It also cleans up the crash recovery data before launching Microsoft Edge to prevent it from reloading tabs that were open the last time you ran it.

Syntax:

EdgeWinDbg.cmd <url> <additional windbg arguments>

This script requires windbg.exe from Microsoft's Debugging Tools for Windows, and the environment variable WinDbg should be set to the path of the windbg.exe binary before running the script. If this environment variable is not defined, the script attempts to locate windbg.exe automatically.

Example:

H:\dev\C\EdgeDbg>Set WinDbg=path\to\windbg.exe

H:\dev\C\EdgeDbg>EdgeWinDbg.cmd
* Terminating any running Edge processes...
* Deleting crash recovery data...
* Starting Edge in WinDbg...
+ URL: http://W10-IE11:28876/
* Terminating any running instances of Microsoft Edge...
* Activating Microsoft Edge and opening http://W10-IE11:28876/...
+ MicrosoftEdge.exe process id = 5388
* Waiting for MicrosoftEdgeCP.exe process to start...
+ MicrosoftEdgeCP.exe process id = 3852
* Suspended process 5388.
* Suspended process 3852.
+ RuntimeBroker.exe process id = 1476
* Suspended process 1476.
+ browser_broker.exe process id = 1836
* Suspended process 1836.
+ ApplicationFrameHost.exe process id = 1234
* Suspended process 1234.
* Starting "path\to\windbg.exe" -o -p 5388 -c ".attach 0n3852;g;.attach 0n1836;g;.attach 0n1476;g;.attach 0n1234;g;~*m;.childdbg 1;|0s;~*m;.childdbg 1;|1s;~*m;.childdbg 1;|2s;~*m;.childdbg 1;|3s;~*m;.childdbg 1;g"

You may want to enable page heap for Microsoft Edge to make detection and analysis of bugs more reliable and detailed. This can be done using the gflags.exe application that is distributed with Microsoft's Debugging Tools for Windows. The preferred flags to use are +02109870, see the page heap documentation for an explanation of the switches in use. The command-line utility EdgePageHeap.cmd is provided to facilitate enabling/disabling page heap for all processes associated with Microsoft Edge. It can be used in the following way:

EdgePageHeap.cmd [ON|OFF]

This will enable (ON, default) or disable (OFF) page heap. Note that enabling page heap is highly recommended when using BugId to detect crashes (more on that below).

This script facilitates use of BugId with Microsoft Edge. BugId is a set of python scripts that allow automatic bug detection, analysis and identification. For more information on BugId see the project's README file. The script also clean up the crash recovery data before launching Microsoft Edge to prevent it from reloading tabs that were open the last time you ran it.

Syntax:

EdgeBugId.cmd <url> <additional BugId arguments>

This script requires BugId, and the environment variable BugId should be set to the path of the BugId.py script before running the script. BugId requires cdb.exe from Microsoft's Debugging Tools for Windows, and the environment variable cdb should be set to the path of the cdb.exe binary before running the script. If either environment variable is not defined, the script attempts to locate the required component automatically.

Example:

X:\path\to\EdgeDbg>Set cdb=\path\to\cdb.exe

X:\path\to\EdgeDbg>Set BugId=\path\to\BugId.py

X:\path\to\EdgeDbg>EdgeBugId.cmd
* Terminating any running instances of Microsoft Edge...
* Deleting crash recovery data...
* Starting Edge in BugId...
+ URL: http://PC:28876/
* Terminating any running instances of Microsoft Edge...
* Activating Microsoft Edge and opening http://PC:28876/...
+ MicrosoftEdge.exe process id = 4792
* Waiting for MicrosoftEdgeCP.exe process to start...
+ MicrosoftEdgeCP.exe process id = 3928
* Suspended process 4792.
* Suspended process 3928.
+ RuntimeBroker.exe process id = 2104
* Suspended process 2104.
+ browser_broker.exe process id = 2096
* Suspended process 2096.
+ ApplicationFrameHost.exe process id = 1234
* Suspended process 1234.
* Starting \path\to\python.exe \path\to\BugId.py --pids=2104,2096,4792,3928,1234
* The debugger is attaching to the application...
* Attached to process 2104.
* The application was resumed successfully and is running...
* Attached to process 2096.
* Attached to process 4792.
* Attached to process 3928.
* Attached to process 1234.
* Exception code 0xC0000005 (Access violation) was detected and is being analyzed...
* A bug was detected in the application.

Id:               E39B AVR:NULL microsoftedgecp.exe!EDGEHTML.dll!CDocument::getElementsByTagNameNSInternal
Description:      Access violation while reading memory at 0x0 using a NULL ptr
Process binary:   microsoftedgecp.exe
Location:         EDGEHTML.dll!CDocument::getElementsByTagNameNSInternal + 0x36
Security impact:  None
Error report:     E39B AVR.NULL microsoftedgecp.exe!EDGEHTML.dll!CDocument..getElementsByTagNameNSInternal.html (66859 bytes)

X:\path\to\EdgeDbg>

If you want to use EdgeDbg with your own debugger, but do not want EdgeDbg to start it, you can use the --suspend switch and parse the EdgeDbg output to determine which processes to attach to: lines starting with - indicate a fatal error, lines starting with * are progress notifications and lines starting with + contain process ids.

If you do not want to build EdgeDbg from source, you can download pre-build executables for the latest release:

    [EdgeDbg.zip] (https://github.com/SkyLined/EdgeDbg/releases/download/1.1b/EdgeDbg.zip)

You can also download the most up-to-date pre-build executables, including .pdb files for debugging, from the [repository] (https://github.com/SkyLined/EdgeDbg/tree/master/Build) itself. Please note that these later binaries may have newer features, but are also more likely to have bugs in them. I'd advise you to use the release executables unless they do not work for you for some reason.

Please note that the 64-bit executable will (obviously) not run on 32-bit windows builds, and that the 32-bit executable will not work on 64-bit windows builds.

This work is provided free of charge for non-commercial use. If you find it useful and would like to make a donation, you can send bitcoin to [183yyxa9s1s1f7JBpPHPmzQ346y91Rx5DX]. If you would like to use it commercially, please contact the author at [[email protected]][] to discuss licensing options. [183yyxa9s1s1f7JBpPHPmzQ346y91Rx5DX]:bitcoin:183yyxa9s1s1f7JBpPHPmzQ346y91Rx5DX [[email protected]]:mailto:[email protected]

This project was originally forked from [Microsoft Edge Launcher] (https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MicrosoftEdgeLauncher) but the program has been completely rewritten and expanded. It is therefore no longer a (modified) copy of that code and the MIT licence that covers Microsoft Edge Launcher no longer applies to this code.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.