OWA 2010 + Chrome 37 Modal Pop Ups

Question

Hi all,
Chrome 37 came out last last month with deprecated support for the JavaScript cmd showModalDialog.
OWA 2010 seems to use this widely (address book, file attachment pop ups etc) so it's now largely unuseable for composing in Chrome 37.  Some useful links on the problem are:
http://its.uiowa.edu/alert/102990
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/4fns56FokxY
The MS Dynamics team has acknowledged the problem and suggested a registry hack here:
http://msdynamicswiki.com/2014/09/10/an-error-occurs-in-microsoft-dynamics-crm-when-adding-or-editing-status-reasons-using-google-chrome/
Can anyone from Microsoft comment on if the Exchange team are going to be working on a fix?
Thanks, Ryan.

Answer 1

I believe that the development team are very well aware of the problem and will fix the issues in Exchange 2010 and 2013. Unfortunately you'll just have to wait for the work to be done in OWA and EAC. In the interim, you can either use the registry hack
to put off the day of doom until May 2015 (the fixes should definitely be available by then) or move to another browser. It seems like Opera and Mozilla are going to deprecate the showModalDialog method too.
See http://windowsitpro.com/blog/chrome-problem-exchange-due-google-haste-and-microsoft-inattention for the complete story.
TR