Windows 8.1 browser support, linking is failing

[Mark R.5]

I have an app in the Microsoft Store which is still built against Windows 8.1. In the last few days, linking to Dropbox from a WebView within the app has started to fail with the message "Upgrade your browser to use Dropbox. Your current browser is not supported".

Nothing has changed within the app, so has something changed at the Dropbox end to do with the minimum requirements? I am not sure what the WebView actually does behind the scenes, but presumably uses some version of Internet Explorer or Edge...

[Greg-DB]

The Dropbox web site has recently dropped support for Internet Explorer 11. You can find the official system requirements here.

Please note that API apps should not be processing the OAuth app authorization flow in a web view, per the /oauth2/authorize documentation. Please update your app to use the system browser instead.

[Mark R.5]

Thanks, the IE11 deprecation will be it then.

I don't think that Win 8.1 apps are able to launch an external browser and get a call back. I guess I will need to update the app to Win 10 to get round this issue.