Replacing Chrome with Edge for headless PDF generation

[Ben Shaw]

Has anyone successfully replaced Google Chrome with Microsoft Edge for headless PDF generation?

On our Windows server 2022 QATrack+ v3.1.1.3 deployment, our IT department would prefer we use Edge for PDF generation, rather than needing Chrome installed.

As far as I can tell this should work almost as a drop in. I am able to execute the exact PDF generation command using Edge, in the QAT environment on the server, and it works fine. I have updated CHROME_PATH to point to the edge exe. When actually trying to generate a PDF in QAT however the Edge command seems to silently fail (with an error occurring only due to the missing PDF). There's nothing relevant in the log files. As far as I can tell the most likely explanation is something to do with Edge not running properly when started by a system service, but nothing I have tried seems to work.

Is this something anyone else has experience of or been able to solve?

We currently have an outdated version of Chrome installed, so IT's second preference would be to update Chrome and keep it installed, but I'm concerned that the latest Chrome may have the same issues.

[tbe...@gmail.com]

Hi Ben,

there is an older thread were Randle reported edge as working:

https://groups.google.com/g/qatrack/c/jCIzKQ1oNyo/m/yLtxE7n4AQAJ

I use chrome with ubuntu and update to the latest version regularly, at the moment I have 151.0.7922.. installed.

Thomas

[Ben Shaw]

Thanks - the command itself works fine it just doesn't work from within QAT+ itself. It sounded like it might be a Windows specific issue with the system account running django