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Elliot Kirk
Apr 22, 2019Former Employee
New Tab Page Walkthrough
Microsoft Edge’s new tab experience is designed to be a clean, delightful experience that helps you find what you need on the web and get you where you want to go next. Microsoft Edge starts with a n...
archtech
Apr 25, 2019Iron Contributor
Elliot Kirk Love the new tab especially Inspiration option, striking a good balance with nice images and functionality.
There are still more things I think we could make it better (not in order):
- Ability to drag-and-drop Pinned Sites.
- Customization to adjust the maximum amount of Pinned Sites.
- Showing recently closed tabs and from previous session.
- Dark theme support for New Tab page.
- Showing frequently visited sites (Top sites) with an option to permanently pin them.
- Ability to edit Pinned Sites.
- Making Pinned Sites looks like a Live Tile, including some basic functionalities like notification badges if the pinned sites allowed push notifications.
- Ability to assign own wallpaper background for New Tab.
- Ability to set Bing image as desktop or lockscreen wallpaper from New Tab itself.
- Search box on New Tab should have same features and UI like the Addressbar/Omnibar, this includes: Showing weather, calculations, facts, etc that Bing already supports.
- Making design aesthetic of pinned sites exactly like a Live Tile for consistency, maybe minus the colours since making it neutral like light gray or dark gray won't conflict to the wallpaper background. Basically still like the current one but sharpening the corners, left aligned titles and making it square instead of rectangle.
Looking forward for further improvements and kudos to the team working with Edge Chromium project. Cheers!
- Dmitry PeredniaApr 29, 2019Copper Contributor
archtech 100% right!
- Drew1903Apr 29, 2019Silver Contributor
Dmitry Perednia
Hi Dmitry,
What is 100% right?
Cheers,
Drew
- RUFELLO2260Apr 27, 2019Brass ContributorYou copy my thoughts word by word...
I too want all those features specially:
1. To manually determine the maximum no. of pinned sites, and
2. To edit the pinned sites.- Drew1903Apr 27, 2019Silver Contributor
RUFELLO2260
I'm just anxious to see, to have Pin to taskbar! Bizarre it wasn't there at the onset.
Cheers,
Drew- RUFELLO2260Apr 27, 2019Brass ContributorPin to taskbar:
You can already do that just 2 steps:
Pin to desktop===> then simply drag and drop the shortcut from desktop to taskbar.
Done!
- Elliot KirkApr 25, 2019Former Employee
Wow, Thank you all for the kind words and great suggestions. I know that the feature team responsible for the New Tab Page has been reading through these comments.