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ZstdContentEncodingEnabled

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Enable zstd content encoding support

Supported versions

  • On Windows and macOS since 125 or later

Description

This feature enables advertising "zstd" support in the Accept-Encoding request header and support for decompressing zstd web content.

If you enable or don't configure this policy, Microsoft Edge will accept server responses compressed with zstd.

If you disable this policy, the zstd content encoding feature will not be advertised or supported when processing server responses.

This policy is temporary and will be removed in the future.

Supported features

  • Can be mandatory: Yes
  • Can be recommended: No
  • Dynamic Policy Refresh: No - Requires browser restart
  • Per Profile: No
  • Applies to a profile that is signed in with a Microsoft account: Yes

Data type

  • Boolean

Windows information and settings

Group Policy (ADMX) info

  • GP unique name: ZstdContentEncodingEnabled
  • GP name: Enable zstd content encoding support
  • GP path (Mandatory): Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/Network settings
  • GP path (Recommended): N/A
  • GP ADMX file name: MSEdge.admx

Example value

Enabled

Registry settings

  • Path (Mandatory): SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge
  • Path (Recommended): N/A
  • Value name: ZstdContentEncodingEnabled
  • Value type: REG_DWORD

Example registry value

0x00000001

Mac information and settings

  • Preference Key name: ZstdContentEncodingEnabled
  • Example value:
<true/>

See also