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Welcome to the Microsoft Edge Insiders community
Hello Microsoft Edge Insiders!
Ever since we first announced in December that Microsoft Edge was going to adopt the Chromium open source project for our desktop browser, we’ve been excited to begin launching our Insider community. The time has finally come, and everyone can try out the new version of the browser right now!
We want to use this opportunity to start building a close relationship with all of you. Going beyond collecting comments and reviews, we’re eager to listen and engage in active conversations with you. We believe your collective voices will help us build a better Microsoft Edge, and that’s our vision for this community.
With our recent adoption of Chromium, Microsoft Edge gets a chance to grow beyond its initial home on Windows 10. As we’ve reflected on the best ways to enable a new listening system to support other versions of Windows and platforms, we’ve realized that our goals should be based on what we want as customers, not as engineers or designers.
What would such a system look like? That’s where all of you come in. Based on the feedback you’ve graciously given us over the past few years, we know it’s important to be able to quickly and easily send us problems or suggestions from directly within the browser. You also want a way to engage meaningfully and deeply with the developers, as well as a way to get immediate support when you run into a problem that you can’t fix on your own.
Other Insider programs at Microsoft have provided good models for us to follow for our new community. However, the Microsoft Edge Insider community has one important difference: you don’t need to sign up. Just downloading and using the Microsoft Edge Canary, Dev, or Beta channels is enough.
We hope that this relationship can be beneficial for both parties. For you, this isn’t just about being a member of an active group of fellow browser enthusiasts. You also get: a chance to see new features before all the other Microsoft Edge users; an in-depth understanding of how and why we built them, a direct channel of communication with the engineers responsible for them, and the chance to critique them and suggest what we should build next. We at Microsoft get valuable early feedback, your verbal and written insights about what you do and don't like about a given feature or approach, which will help us steer the product in the right direction. The ability to dig deeper and understand the why behind the what, while learning from a large and diverse worldwide audience. Finally, through our continuing conversations, we hope Insiders will invite others in their own communities to come and join in our conversation.
So, what can you expect from us? As our new features start making their way into the builds, our goal is to publish at least one new article every other week to inform and encourage active discussions on the latest developments in the Insider channels. We are devoting some of our time to reading and responding to every thread, and you can expect direct interaction from the Microsoft Edge team that promotes the deepest, most enlightening discussions.
We’re fully committed to building an open, honest and respectful community of awesome Insiders like you. We hope you’ll join our discussions or start your own today.
Welcome to our community. We can’t wait to build a great Edge community together!
-The Microsoft Edge Team-
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Elliot KirkJumping into Canary channel, cant wait to see where this will go.
So far few things:
Fluent design - Edge should integrate with the OS a bit better, things like picking up systemwide dark/light theme and accents and the design language, at the moment its inconsistent from the Windows10.Browser Data Import - Should least work for other chromium based browsers, Opera, Vivaldi, Yandex ect
Custom images on new tab page and more customization in general.
Opera has a cool feature where all search engines have an assigned letter, so if I start search with it itll use different search engine:
"search text" - will use default
"q search text" - will use qwant
This will also fetch predictive results from the respective search engine.- All great suggestions, Bitcrusherrr, thank you for taking the time to test drive our new browser. We have more changes coming so, please keep updating and letting us know what you think.
Elliot
Could I ask that is it release new Edge in MS Store in your timeline? Now MS Store have many software and enough to daily work, and I don't want install a program with UAC. If the answer is not, I think new Edge should have a portable version just like VSCode, I found many people don't install VSCode but take the portable version like me. Elliot Kirk
- That is good feedback, Deleted. Would you feel better if it was installed with Windows and not a separate download?
Elliot
Please, PLEASE ditch the Chromium version of edge. I am sorry but it is impossible to say anything nice about it. The version of EDGE that we have been using since it was introduced works great and the Chromium version just make me want to go back to Internet explorer if this will end up being the only version of EDGE. Edge used to be so easy to use and the chromium version makes it so hard to do ANYTHING! And it is impossible to close. Again, PLEASE, PLEASE stop with the Frankenstein experiment and go back to the version of EDGE that we have known and love so much!
- Thank you decimal639. Can you explain which parts of the browser make you want to go back to IE11? What do you think that we could do to make it look and feel more like the version of Edge that you are familiar with?
ElliotElliot Kirk
IE 11 ... Eeeeeek! Edge & Edge Beta are both better than IE; both performance & features.
Elliot Kirk OK, so far so good, much faster than the regular Edge Browser, that's my first impression. PROBLEM, whilst in settings etc we can add or delete the "FAVOURITES BAR", BUT how do we get the "FAVOURITES BUTTON" viewable. Found in settings where the favourites Bar can either be switched on or off, BUT, unlike in the usual Edge, there's NO provision to either turn the visiable Favourites button on or off
- Thanks for the suggestion, Newcastle_Guardian. I will pass it on to the favorites team.
Elliot
So looking forward to this. I can see a problem for me in the favorites bar. You can not display either just the icon, or icon and label or just the label. I have a lot of links and folders within my Favorite bar, in the MS Edge I can choose to only show the icon and they all fit. However in this version they do not all fit and I have to click a menu option to find the rest of them. I have also posted this a feedback from within the beta browser. Elliot Kirk
- Thank you for giving us this feedback, @DennisSmile. I will forward it onto the team that does favorites.
- You can edit them and save them blank, without a title, and it will at least remove the label and leave the icon. It's a decent temporary solution.
rsfarris wrote:
You can edit them and save them blank, without a title, and it will at least remove the label and leave the icon. It's a decent temporary solution.Well, that would be ok for normal website icons like FaceBook, Twitter etc... but for folders that I have on the favorites bar, that contain several links in each to websites I need to get to, it does no good to have a blank name. In MS Edge when you only show the icon and hover over the icon, the name pops up telling what that folder is for... So leaving it blank would not help..
Thanks for your input though..
Dennis5mile
Hopefully this is the right spot. A feature suggestion. When you have several tabs open and are working on one tab that has an open tab to the right. If you click a link and it opens another tab it will put it to the far right which is fine. When you close the tab it does not take you back to the originating tab. It takes you to the one to the immediate left. How about adding the feature where you will automatically go back to the tab that you left when you cilcked the link. Thanks Elliot Kirk
- Great feedback Bartley2019. We will continue to look at getting the right default behaviors, and possibly overrides for those who like a more custom look and feel.
Thanks,
Elliot
From the moment I downloaded and installed Microsoft Edge this morning, first impressions are - this is a totally different beast. Even at this stage the navigation, look and feel - simplicity of importing Chrome information and the quick responsiveness of web page uploads makes me feel excited about the possibilities of Edge as a browser. I have always felt frustrated about using Windows 10, Office but using Chrome out of necessity. Based on my first look under the hood, think Microsoft has birthed a winner. Looking forward to putting it through its paces.
- Thank you, mindlogik. I hope that we keep meeting or exceeding your expectations. Please let us know either way.
Elliot
Looking forward to the introduction of dark modeElliot Kirk
Mace242 To be honest pin to desktop is a great feature to have because I don't want to have to hunt down new apps in file explorer just to copy them to my desktop.
Excalibur20
Well, then, thank the gods for the Desktop toolbar since nobody wants or needs to have icons all over the desktop possibley covering some nice graphics. Desktop isn't an idea storage place nor a pinning place. A icon on the taskbar cannot be covered by a window; unlike if using the desktop for such things.
Of course, one uses the Desktop toolbar, anyway... so, (what few) icons are, already, not showing on the desktop (& covering things).
Cheers,
DrewI pin to the start menu. Adding pin to desktop is good for some. But why take away the other two?
Elliot Kirk - decided to try this out as you said some promising things, but one glaring thing came out at me straight away, WHY can't you let US the end-user decide where we wish to install the browser?? - I do not wish to have my C-drive SSD loaded up with stuff all the time, space on it is precious.
- Thank you for the feedback nz-simplicity, I will forward it on to our installer team.
Elliot
