Should the Edit in Browser link appear when Office Web Apps is read only?

Question

Hi,
We have deployed an Office Web Apps farm in read only mode for licensing reasons.
There is a binding between SharePoint 2013 and the Office Web Apps farm, everything is working well, except the option to Edit Office documents using Office Web Apps is quite prominent on the ECB menus and document previews.
Is anyone able to advise whether this is expected behaviour? When the link is clicked a friendly error message states that licensing doesn't support editing, which is correct. I'm just trying to see if the user experience can be improved by a setting that
we've missed somewhere along the line.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi,
Per my knowledge, if you have configured Office Web Apps for SharePoint, the Edit in Browser option will appear in the ECB menu regardless of the licensing of the Office Web Apps.
So I recommend to use CSS code to hide the Edit in Browser option if you do not want the user to use it.
Edit the page of the document library view page, and then add a Content Editor web part to the page.
After that add the code below to the Content Editor web part:
<style>
a[Title="Edit in Browser"]{
display:none !important;
</style>
Thanks,
Victoria
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