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I have a legacy application which works only in IE. Now if the user access the application from other browser I have to show a button or link , on click which redirect the request to IE. Is it possible?

JAVA_CAT
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  • Possible duplicate of [How can you detect the version of a browser?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5916900/how-can-you-detect-the-version-of-a-browser) – Raphael Rafatpanah Feb 21 '19 at 04:41
  • @statosdotcom: Browser detection can't solve this. Browser _redirection_ is not a thing: clientside JavaScript can't launch executables. The closest thing to this is something like IE Tab Chrome Extension. – Amadan Feb 21 '19 at 04:42
  • Possible duplicate of [Launch IE from a link in Chrome](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28744149/launch-ie-from-a-link-in-chrome) – Jaspreet Jolly Feb 21 '19 at 04:43
  • @Amadan, you are right. Thank you. – statosdotcom Feb 21 '19 at 04:47

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Its not possible to open another browser from current browser.

You could instead display message over your site and let the user know about it

How to display browser specific HTML?

Edit: I am assuming you don't have control on user's platform.

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  • I don't have access to user platform. – JAVA_CAT Feb 21 '19 at 04:54
  • what you are asking is not possible but consider displaying a message about incompatibility on your webpage. For example, look at what happens when you don't login to quora or linkedin, it just shows a pop-up window and rest of the site is inaccessible. This is the simplest way to do it from front-end. – wenn32 Feb 21 '19 at 07:40
  • Yes. Seems no other option. My plan was to show the message and then provide a link or button to navigate to another browser. Thanks – JAVA_CAT Feb 23 '19 at 07:28