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Launch new Microsoft Edge Action fails on Windows 11 insider after update

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Hello,

I am running Windows 11 insider and after every other update of the OS, some of my PAD flows stop working: the "Launch new Microsoft Edge" action systematically throughs the exception detailed below.

I have had the issue a couple times and updating or reinstalling PAD sorted things out, but with my actual configuration this workaround is not working at all.

 

Details:

Windows 11 version: 21H2 build 22000.348

Edge version: 96.0.1054.41

PAD version: 2.14.217.21314

 

Error details:

Exception of type 'Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.UIAutomation.WebAutomation.Core.Browser.WebBrowserException' was thrown.: Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Robin.SDK.ActionException: Failed to assume control of Microsoft Edge (Internal error or communication failure). ---> Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.UIAutomation.WebAutomation.Core.Browser.WebBrowserException: Exception of type 'Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.UIAutomation.WebAutomation.Core.Browser.WebBrowserException' was thrown.
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.UIAutomation.WebAutomation.Core.WebExtensionsBrowser.WebExtensionsBrowserLauncher.LaunchNew(ProcessWindowStyle processWindowStyle, String initialUrl, Int32 timeout)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.UIAutomation.Plugin.Edge.Edge.StartNew(ProcessWindowStyle processWindowStyle, String initialUrl, Int32 timeout)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.WebAutomation.Actions.WebAutomationActions.LaunchNewEdge(Variant initialUrl, Variant edgeTabTitle, Variant edgeTabUrl, Variant dialogButtonToPress, Variant& webBrowserInstance, Int32 operation, Int32 windowState, Int32 attachMode, Boolean waitForWebPageToLoad, Int32 courseOfActionIfDialogAppears, Boolean clearCache, Boolean clearCookies, Int32 timeout)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.WebAutomation.Actions.LaunchEdgeBase.Execute(ActionContext context)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Robin.Engine.ActionRunner.RunAction(String action, Dictionary`2 inputArguments, Dictionary`2 outputArguments, IActionStatement statement)

  • Highboy Profile Picture
    1,187 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    My setup 

    Windows : 21H2 Build 22000.318

    Edge : Version 96.0.1054.43 (Officielt build) (64-bit)

    PAD : 2.14.217.21314

    No problems (Other than the problems introduced by 2.14)

    Running the Insider version of windows could be the problem, as it's not a production grade version of windows.

    Have you tried on the latest version of the public released version (like mine)?

  • obloch Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Interestingly, I updated to the latest version of Edge (96.0.1054.43) and my flows are now able to access the browser again.

    Thanks @Highboy for testing on your side

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