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MicrosoftTop Feedback Summary for June 23
Note: This is no longer the most recent top feedback summary. You can always find the latest at https://aka.ms/MSEdgeTopFeedback.
June 30th Edit: We have no updates coming to this list until mid-July as we take a break for a couple weeks! See you then!
Hey, Insiders! This week is pretty small with two items getting marked as Addressed. Let’s hop right into it!
First up, at the beginning of the month we had mentioned that we were waiting for the feature for Allow users to turn off the “Disable developer mode extensions” notification to reach our Beta channel before marking this as Addressed. This week, we’re excited to announce that Beta users should start to see this option. When you are using Developer Mode from the edge://extensions page, you will now be able to tell the notification that you are in Developer Mode directly from the dialog itself. Give it a shot! This should roll into our Stable channel in the near future.
Lastly, but certainly not least, we are marking The address bar and its text are too big, and should be smaller like Chrome as Addressed. Several of you have noticed this change over the past few weeks, and we’re excited to bring this to the browser for our Insiders. Note that the change here is that we made the text in the address bar smaller, and this brings parity to Chrome.
That’s all for this week! Since we are closing out these two items, it’s a great time to give a reminder that we are constantly reviewing feedback to make adjustments based on what you all say. Not as excited as we are about some changes? Or are you in love with how everything works now? Either way, let us know directly through the browser by heading to the … menu > Help and feedback > Send feedback. The team looks forward to seeing your thoughts!
Here’s the updated list for this week:
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Status |
Feedback |
On this list for |
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Addressed |
Allow users to turn off the “Disable developer mode extensions” notification |
28 weeks |
|
Addressed |
The address bar and its text are too big, and should be smaller like Chrome |
96 weeks |
|
Planned for June |
Users can find and manage their tabs more easily by organizing them into associated groups |
20 weeks |
|
Planned for June |
Users can get back to where they left off in PDF documents |
28 weeks |
|
Planned for June |
Allow more top sites on the New Tab Page |
68 weeks |
|
Planned for July (Join the discussion) |
Bring the tab preview feature from Microsoft Edge legacy |
96 weeks |
|
Planned |
Add option to always open favorites in new tab |
1 week |
|
Planned |
Allow users to put individual tabs to sleep |
2 weeks |
|
Planned |
Users can easily close Vertical Tabs |
10 weeks |
|
Planned |
Enable search of items in Collections |
16 weeks |
|
Planned |
Hide or shrink the title bar when vertical tabs are enabled |
16 weeks |
|
Planned |
Edge should respect the default PDF viewer |
44 weeks |
|
Planned |
Restore tabs if Edge or the OS is restarted for any reason |
46 weeks |
|
Planned |
Provide an option to prevent auto-play of video and audio when you open a website |
96 weeks |
|
Alternative Planned |
Bring the tab set aside feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
96 weeks |
|
In Discussion (Join the discussion) |
Enable option to match Windows display language |
34 weeks |
|
In Discussion (Join the discussion) |
Add ability to close tabs via double-click |
63 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Enable additional options for viewing downloaded files, such as the bottom of the window |
6 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Users can move Vertical Tabs to the right side of the screen |
12 weeks |
|
Not Planned |
Support mouse gestures for common actions like navigation and tab close |
13 weeks |
|
Not Planned (View the discussion) |
Allow sign-in to the browser with a Google account |
23 weeks |
|
Not Planned |
Edge launches with previous session’s tabs when “On startup” setting is set to “Open a new tab” |
25 weeks |
|
Not planned (View the discussion) |
Bring the reading list feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
35 weeks |
|
Not Planned |
Provide a transparent theme for the browser frame |
43 weeks |
|
Not Planned |
Make tabs more square and less rounded, like the current version of Microsoft Edge |
47 weeks |
|
Not Planned |
MSA profile picture is not updating |
56 weeks |
And here’s the list of top “quality areas” that we’re actively working on in response to your feedback:
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Bring more extensions to the extensions store |
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Edge should use less memory than it does |
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Edge should use less CPU than it does |
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Scrolling should feel smoother for web pages |
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Scrolling should feel smoother for PDF files |
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Opening a new tab is too slow |
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Update does not always work reliably |
Definitions:
Addressed – Changes to address this feedback are visible to all users in the Canary and Dev channels.
Not Planned – We don’t currently plan to address this feedback, though we will continue to track it and reconsider our approach if needed.
Planned for… – We’re working on this and currently plan for it to be addressed in the Canary channel before the end of the month indicated.
Planned - We have reviewed this feedback and have a plan to address it. However, we aren't ready to share a target time frame just yet.
Alternative Planned - We don’t currently plan to directly address this feedback; however, we are working on addressing this in the form of a new feature.
In Discussion – We’ve reviewed this feedback and to learn more we have started a discussion about it here in the Microsoft Edge Insider Forum.
Under Review – We are reviewing this feedback internally and do not have a plan to share at this time.
Quality Area – We will give extra weight to fixes and opportunities in this area. Please continue to report specific bugs and make specific asks.
Archive of previously addressed topics:
Spoiler
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Feedback |
On this list for |
Addressed on |
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Allow users to adjust the width of the Vertical Tabs pane |
1 week |
Jun 9, 2021 |
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Users would like more theme and customization options |
12 weeks |
Apr 30, 2021 |
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Some web page fonts are blurry |
48 weeks |
Apr 7, 2021 |
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Ask users if they want to close all tabs when they close a browser window |
81 weeks |
Apr 7, 2021 |
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Add dictionary in PDF |
31 weeks |
Mar 23, 2021 |
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Some passwords are not saved |
25 weeks |
Mar 16, 2021 |
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Enable kiosk mode |
16 weeks |
Feb 9, 2021 |
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Add option to remove previous search terms from the New Tab Page’s search box auto-suggestion list |
35 weeks |
Feb 9, 2021 |
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Enable vertical tabs feature |
23 weeks |
Jan 27, 2021 |
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Enable customers to pin sites to Start Menu in Windows |
26 weeks |
Jan 27, 2021 |
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Support two-page layout in PDF reader |
32 weeks |
Jan 27, 2021 |
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Voice search on google.com doesn’t work |
31 weeks |
Dec 1, 2020 |
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Enable sync of browsing history between devices |
57 weeks |
Dec 1, 2020 |
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Add the ability to ink on web page content |
57 weeks |
Dec 1, 2020 |
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Add "text notes" feature to PDF files |
27 weeks |
Nov 17, 2020 |
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Update the user interface with the Fluent Design System |
65 weeks |
Nov 17, 2020 |
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Enable customers to pin Favorites menu to the side of the screen |
6 weeks |
Nov 3, 2020 |
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Make Edge available on Linux |
39 weeks |
Oct 20, 2020 |
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Support themes from the Chrome Web Store |
60 weeks |
Oct 15, 2020 |
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Enable automatic generation of strong passwords |
13 weeks |
Sept 15, 2020 |
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Enable navigation of PDF files via table of contents |
31 weeks |
Sept 15, 2020 |
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Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files |
55 weeks |
Sept 9, 2020 |
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Provide different options for sorting favorites |
51 weeks |
Aug 11, 2020 |
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Bring the Ask Cortana feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
50 weeks |
Aug 5, 2020 |
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Highlighter tool for PDF files |
21 weeks |
July 15, 2020 |
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Mouse cursor sometimes disappears (Read the discussion) |
11 weeks |
June 24, 2020 |
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Support read aloud of PDF files |
20 weeks |
June 9, 2020 |
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Edge cannot find devices to cast media (Learn more) |
16 weeks |
May 19, 2020 |
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Provide option to keep specific cookies when choosing to clear browsing data on close |
21 weeks |
Apr 7, 2020 |
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Option to set a custom photo as the New Tab Page background photo |
33 weeks |
Apr 7, 2020 |
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Add an option to hide the Bing search bar on the new tab page (Learn more) |
32 weeks |
Mar 31, 2020 |
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Allow the search bar in the new tab page to be configured with other search providers (Learn more) |
32 weeks |
Mar 31, 2020 |
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Provide an option to set a custom URL for a new tab instead of showing the new tab page (Learn more) |
32 weeks |
Mar 31, 2020 |
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Enable sync of installed browser extensions between devices |
19 weeks |
Mar 19. 2020 |
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Some users are unable to access any web page |
3 weeks |
Mar 11, 2020 |
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Favorites sync issues, including sync not working, deleted favorites reappearing, and favorites being duplicated |
13 weeks |
Mar 4, 2020 |
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Provide an option to add a share button to the tool bar |
17 weeks |
Feb 26, 2020 |
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Need for better handling of links when there is more than one profile |
26 weeks |
Feb 21, 2020 |
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Touchpad two-finger scrolling is sometimes triggering a right click instead |
24 weeks |
Feb 21, 2020 |
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Add the ability to change the location for news content on the new tab page |
20 weeks |
Jan 22, 2020 |
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Provide the ability to change the title of tiles on the new tab page |
22 weeks |
Jan 22, 2020 |
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Enable search in the extensions store |
17 weeks |
Dec 19, 2019 |
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The taskbar icon is not updating to the new Microsoft Edge logo |
1 week |
Nov 14, 2019 |
|
A round of improvements to scrolling experience, with more (including performance) to come down the line |
12 weeks |
Nov 14, 2019 |
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YouTube.com does not render properly and appears extremely magnified |
1 week |
Nov 4, 2019 |
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Bring the OneNote Web Clipper to the Microsoft Edge extensions store |
4 weeks |
Nov 4, 2019 |
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Improve discoverability of the home button since some users are asking for it. (Join the discussion) |
8 weeks |
October 29, 2019 |
|
Microsoft Edge is crashing whenever a new tab is opened from a link |
1 week |
October 22, 2019 |
|
Inking for PDF files |
9 weeks |
October 22, 2019 |
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Provide an option to remove the send feedback “smiley” button from the toolbar |
1 week |
October 15, 2019 |
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Show the New Tab Page in dark theme when the browser is in dark theme |
6 weeks |
October 1, 2019 |
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Add the ability to turn off the news feed on the new tab page |
6 weeks |
October 1, 2019 |
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ClickOnce deployment of Windows applications from web pages |
6 weeks |
October 1, 2019 |
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Website elements are being flipped upside down when switching between tabs |
1 week |
September 17, 2019 |
|
Sign-in profile picture is not always kept up to date |
4 weeks |
September 17, 2019 |
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“Administrator Mode Detected” error message when opening the browser |
2 weeks |
September 4, 2019 |
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Add a favorites button to the toolbar, for quicker access to favorites |
1 week |
August 29, 2019 |
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Make it easier to share web content with other users and apps |
1 week |
August 29, 2019 |
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Drop down menus in some web pages are not working |
1 week |
August 29, 2019 |
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Add a dark theme to Microsoft Edge |
Addressed before these posts started |
|
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Build translation capabilities into the browser |
Addressed before these posts started |
|
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Delete browsing history on exit |
Addressed before these posts started |
|
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Show favorites bar only on the new tab page |
Addressed before these posts started |
|
|
Bring back reading view |
Addressed before these posts started |
|
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Sync data with my work or school account |
Addressed before these posts started |
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MissyQ browser started crashing every 30 seconds or so on friday evening
- Let's redesign Edge to much more like current Windows 11 fluent design! Make the all stuff more rounded corners, fix the dark grey theme to same color as the Windows 11 dark mode color, renew the all icons to the colorful icons like Windows 11, use Mica on the tab bar and settings page like File Explorer and Settings Windows 11.
- I'll have to agree here, it would especially help differentiate Edge from vanilla Chromium some more. I'd argue Vivaldi has shown that just because it's using Chromium under the hood, the browser doesn't need to look 100% the same (case in point - Vivaldi uses a real settings menu / window, which I find to be WAY preferable versus the cumbersome full screen settings page that Chromium AND FireFox both use now).
Why doen't Edge use native contexto menus on macOS? This is something not only every other browser does, but indeed would mean a more polished experience for macOS users. The custom context menus Edge is using now have some big drawbacks when compared to native ones:
- The size. Custom Edge menus are huge and more than usually get unexpected placing on a 16inch macbook, it's annoying. Native ones take much less space (about a half).
- The performance. Custom context menus are rendered as part of the main window which is basically awful because take more time to open. Yes, we are talking about miliseconds, but the delay is noticeable compared to Chrome, Firefox or Safari.
- They make users get confused because of not being what to expect. Indeed, every other Microsoft app on macOS is using native context menus, so they are completely unexpected.
- Do people have issues with embedded media, like videos or audio streams?
The latest official build 91.0.864.59, and this dev build both have playback issues.
Embedded audio streams (radio) do not work anymore, and videos won't play.
Anyone else experiencing this? - 希望能增加双击关闭标签页功能
- "Allow more top sites on the New Tab Page" -- Will this be happened in the 21st century?
- I mentioned this around the end of May and left a lengthy, concerned, and disappointed post regarding the lack of movement on this feature and the radio silence. MissyQ took the time to leave a lengthy and very honest response:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/top-feedback-summary-for-may-18/m-p/2405911#M5617
I would suspect that the answer is going to be the same if she pings a dev to see what's going on with it (no info at this time / it's still a TODO).
I REALLY want to see this enhancement (as I presume you do as well). Having come from Firefox, it's one of the things I miss (more than one row of top sites).
MissyQ What happened to the ink on webpage feature?
Is that not planned anymore?
- MissyQInking on webpages was addressed back in December and should be in all of our browser channels. If you are noticing any issues with it, please do report that through the feedback tool in the browser.
A reminder, if you want to see changes to the decisions we've made, please submit feedback through the browser to let us know. The original post here details the best way to do that. And if you are curious about the plans for items we still have Discussions open for, remember to hop into those threads. 🙂
Thanks, all!
-MissyHi MissyQ , et al,
I don't like your surfing-wave Microsoft Edge Logo because it dominated every companies website favicons I'm trying to save and all I saved now are all your own Edge Logos + links. I prefer IE which saves truly websites favicons + links ---which help us instantly locating the link by just looking at the company favicon. While now if I've saved about 10 uses Edge and all having similar face Microsoft Edge Wave Logos. All your Edge Logos are useless because I could not tell the right one--- you dominated it. It really needs time to read the text links.
I don't think you like this dominance either because all you see are tons of Edge surfing-wave logos if you've saved that much.
PLEASE revert back to the IE old method of saving websites links.
I'm sorry if you're not the right person to hear my feedback BUT PLEASE Forward it to them because this problem has never been fixed ever since.
Thank you! Sincerely & Regards,
Rino_Tan
- I am wondering what is the alternative plan for "Bring the tab set aside feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge"?
- The really big difference between Edge and Chrome's toolbar is not the text size but the extension etc button width. In Edge the buttons are so much wider that one can only have many fewer extension buttons visible in the toolbar and still have an address bar of a useful width. Which exacerbates the problem created when you removed the previous very good UI for left and right clicking on extension buttons that don't fit in the toolbar and instead added the extensions button, which is simply no good for that role with say 20 more extensions than will fit in the toolbar. In Chrome I can fit 15 extension buttons in the width taken by 10 in Edge, and still have a lot wider address bar than in Edge.
