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MicrosoftIntroducing the new favorites experience in Microsoft Edge
Thanks for the new experience, which is a great improvement.
Two common complaints I see in the Answers forums are closely related:
- The vertical spacing between favourites is to big, and
- The text size is too small.
These two design elements are of course related, but the current solution seems to be the worst possible. It's understandable that spacing has to be adequate for touch users. However, there is a large group of bigger screen users who see a lot of 'wasted' space. on the machine I'm using now, there are 19 favourites listed in Edge while IE shows 30.
Would it be possible to make these two elements user-configurable to some degree?
I think if edge can detect if you are using a touch or desktop it can switch it to be more spaced accordinly like office. Please sumbit this as feedbackNoel Burgess Agree the space between favorites can be reduced. It would be great to have a bigger space for the folders.
Claudiox wrote:space between favorites can be reduced.
on the contrary I think the spacing between favorites and folders are just perfect. it's useful to have this amount of space, easier to use with mouse. they got it right, don't need to change this part of it.
the only thing is to make the Pin state remembered and also make the favorites menu faster to appear.
Noel Burgess wrote:
Would it be possible to make these two elements user-configurable to some degree?[Replying to myself]
Sorry! I now find that some combination of font customization options does in fact increase the size of the text in the favourites list. I'm not sure what triggers the change, but it may be as simple as opening a new window to see the results of increasing the text size in the Customize fonts control. Vertical spacing is probably still oversized for some users, but probably not for those who have difficulty reading the tiny text.
One little adjustment is needed when the font size is increased: the line-height seems to be hard-coded and thus too small, with the result that descenders are obscured on some characters. On my PC, setting line-height to normal corrects this with no change to vertical spacing.
