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Installed most recent Edge Dev but it's completely unusable on several Surfaces, freezes on Type Cover close, kills any keyboard/touch input in classic Edge Application Guard window, drains battery in sleep, doesn't suspend properly, every now and then kills face unlock and other sensors in device manager. Once fully uninstalled everything goes back to normal. Missing plenty of inking features, no favourites sync with IE. Is much slower than the classic Edge. No privacy options/app permissions in Windows Settings. On LTE devices keeps loosing Internet while travelling, where the classic Edge is fine. Overall experience very negative, too many issues. Is it ever going to be as good as the classic Edge?
PeteMSTechCom
Wow, Pete, this different, bizarre and sad. Which Channel is behaving like this? Maybe, remove it & grab a new Download & install that. It's just odd one person can be problem-free & impressed & then, there's your experience. I find Edge C much fast to load than Edge HTML. It is missing Add notes & what the Favorites icon gives is less than expected & unappealing how Favs are handled. "No privacy options/app permissions in Windows Settings." Actually, yes, there are. There are, no denying it, some Feature issues, but, most are finding its performance better than anything.
Cheers,
Drew
I tried Dev on several different Surface machines (Pro 5 LTE, Pro 6, 3 LTE, Go LTE) all of them on most recent W10 OS 1909 18363.476 with the same experience across all of them. Edge C freezing most of the time on Type Cover close, once reopened and logged in Edge C unresponsive. Edge C messing up face unlock, although in it's privacy setting camera and microphone access is disabled, every now and then on start of it the IR camera red light weirdly lights up and remains on until the browser is closed!!! When minimized for a longer period of time doesn't suspend and resumes properly like classic Edge. When completely closed Edge C doesn't update adblocker lists in the background like the classic Edge does. In the Windows Settings app Privacy section there is no a single slider related to Edge C. And the worse is messing up the Application Guard for classic Edge.
PeteMSTechCom
"In the Windows Settings app Privacy section there is no a single slider related to Edge C", Pete
I thought you were talking about Edge C's Settings. There won't be anything in the OS Settings as Edge C is not the OS's browser (yet).
Cheers,
Drew
Drew1903 wrote:I thought you were talking about Edge C's Settings. There won't be anything in the OS Settings as Edge C is not the OS's browser (yet).
And there won't be anything unless it is a UWP app.
even right now that Edge classic is the default built in browser in Windows 10, there is nothing in the Windows settings that is related to it.
- Edge C won't be showing any options in the privacy settings because it's a Win32 app, no longer a UWP app like Edge classic.
so the only privacy options are inside Edge insider browser settings page:
edge://settings/privacy
and
edge://settings/content
it's true the experience on surface and in touch based devices such as tablets are not as good as the experience on desktop versions, still lots of work and improvements need to be done.
how exactly Application Guard is causing problem for Edge classic?
"When completely closed Edge C doesn't update adblocker lists in the background like the classic Edge does. "
which adblocker extension?UWP are excellent, like classic Edge, Monument Browser, BlueSky Browser, Super-Fast Browser, myTube, PDF Reader by Xodo, Drawboard PDF, MS Office Desktop Apps, Skype, OneNote, Excel/PowerPoint/Word Mobile Apps and plenty of others. Is Edge C going to be one as well in the future? Is it going to be distributed and updated through the MS Store?
I wish MS Teams was an UWP as well, hopefully one day but that's another story.
After Edge Dev has been installed and Application Guard window used even once, then most of the time classic Edge's Application Guard window won't launch at all or takes ages or when it eventually does, no mechanical/virtual keyboard and touch screen inputs work, logging out/back in, rebooting won't rectify it. The only solution to fix it, is to fully uninstall Edge Dev (I use Revo uninstaller) and manually clean the registry. Worked on all my Surfaces. Even happened on my HP desktop at work. Once Edge C has gone Application Guard is fine again.
The adblockers I tried are Nano and Adguard, they're fine and classic Edge even when closed (but present in the task manager) keeps them up to date in the background on all my LTE Surfaces, which are always connected on unlimited data packages across Europe. And the battery usage is minimal.
