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MicrosoftImprovements to history in Microsoft Edge
MicrosoftHey everyone! This is William from the Microsoft Edge team. We know some of you really like using Ctrl+H to open the full page, so we've added a new flag under edge://flags to let you choose whether Ctrl+H opens the new history menu or the full page. This feature is now available in today's Canary build. Look for #edge-history-accelerator-override.
Along those lines, today's Canary also lets you open the full page by clicking on the Favorites/History/Downloads header in the dropdown menu or the pane, saving you a few clicks. See attached for a screenshot.
Please keep the feedback coming! We really appreciate it.
- William Devereux
Hello again! As many of you know, we recently made it easier to access the full page for favorites, history, and downloads by clicking on the name of the feature in header of the dropdown menu/pane. We also added a new flag to set Ctrl+H to open the history page.
Starting with today's Canary build (91.0.851.0), we've added a few additional ways to quickly get to the full page:
- Ctrl+click on the favorites/history/downloads button in the toolbar or More Menu
- Click with the mouse scroll wheel on the favorites/history/downloads button in the toolbar
- Right-click and select "Open <content> page" on the favorites/history/downloads button in the toolbar or More Menu
These are in addition to the existing entry point in the "..." menu of the dropdown menu/pane, as well as typing "edge://<content>" in the address bar.
We hope these changes will make it even easier for you to get to the content you care about. Please keep the feedback coming!
- Thank you, now there are So many ways to access full page for each of them.
So many mouse ways to access -- CTRL + J still opens the full Downloads page, but CTRL+H only opens the History menu and CTRL+SHIFT+O only opens the Favorites menu.
My end users are visually impaired or blind and use screen readers (JAWS) or magnifiers (MAGic and ZoomText). Keyboard shortcuts are essential! Perhaps y'all could have CTRL+H = History menu and CTRL+SHIFT+H = history TAB? Since CTRL+O is taken by Open, CTRL+SHIFT+O could be the menu Tab again, and ALT+CTRL+O could be the favorites menu?
While I'm wishing, I'd love a consistent shortcut for the "..." (more options) button. In Edge, ALT+F opens the Settings and More tab, but when there are other items with a "..." button in different screens of Edge (also in Teams), it can be difficult to TAB to it. perhaps CTRL+COLON could consistently toggle between any "..." buttons?
- Thanks William Devereux for this great news!
Edge truly is a wonderful browser and goes into the right direction. That's pretty smart move, thank you!
I do have a feedback, other people asked for it too, sent many feedbacks for it.
why isn't the Pinned state of the flyouts Not remembered?
it's really important, kinda got tired of asking for it honestly since no one listens. I really don't want to have to Pin the favorites/downloads/history/collections Every Single Time to have a sidebar. if i Pin it to make it a sidebar once, i want to see the sidebar next time i open it, until i Unpin it.
I don't know why this obvious behavior is neglected.
I currently use sidebars 0% even though i really like them, and that's all because i'm tired of having to Pin the them every time.
- William DevereuxSo glad you like it!
I can promise you we've definitely heard your feedback. We'll have more to share in the future. I'd love to learn more about why you want it to remember the pinned state though. Is it because you prefer to use the pane 100% of the time? Or do you switch back and forth between the menu and the pane but would prefer it remember the last used state until you're done with it?Yes, the second part, I switch back and forth between the menu and pane but prefer it to remember the last used state until I'm done with it.
another thing that's not being remembered is the sort options in collections flyout. when you sort collections or items inside a collections and close then reopen it, all of those sorting is lost.
I don't know what's the problem with remembering things when it comes to Edge UI but that's definitely not helping me 😕
William Devereux is it also possible for microsoft reps to be less cryptic?
What is the build number?
What is the name of the flag?
EdgarAstrov wrote:is it also possible for microsoft reps to be less cryptic?
What is the build number?
What is the name of the flag?
I agree,
please refer to my post here for all the info:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/you-can-now-open-history-page-faster/m-p/2235883
Thank you.
Sadly it installs additional browser. That is really helpful in enterprise, thank you microsoft. /s
MS are amazing at taking anything that works well and ruin it, and all of that while requesting feedback.
