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Comment by Kwpolska | Hacker News Reader

Or, for one-off usage, you can activate IE via COM and make it visible (in two lines of PowerShell or VBS).

Do you get the real MSIE, or some weird embedded MSIE?

I remember when I was trying to log into GitHub to activate Visual Studio 2019, the embedded browser looked like a historical version of Internet Explorer, and it kept generating endless dialog boxes complaining about script errors on the page.

You get the real deal, a real IE window using the usual IE engine.

I would love to see the PS or VBS example of this

In PowerShell:

    $ie = New-Object -ComObject "InternetExplorer.Application"
    $ie.Visible = $true

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