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Greetings Microsoft Edge Insiders!
Let us start off by saying, welcome to the Microsoft Edge Insider community! We’re so excited to have you here, and we can’t wait to start learning from you. If you haven’t read our Welcome to the Microsoft Edge Insider community article yet, we recommend starting there. It has a bunch of great information on how we got here and where we’re heading.
Our mission:
Our mission is to create a thriving community of valuable Insiders, like you, so we can closely listen and learn how Microsoft Edge can be better. We believe that having open, honest, and continued conversations with our Insider community is a great way to build a close relationship with our users.
Why do all of this? Because we want to build a browser that’s deeply grounded in your needs. Your voice is the most important piece of helping us build a better Microsoft Edge. The feedback you provide leads to meaningful conversations that may ultimately produce the new features, bug fixes, and other improvements that matter the most to you. Listening is just the beginning for us. Our true goal is to build Microsoft Edge with the voice of the Insider community as our guiding light.
Community voice
When we announced the next version of Microsoft Edge back in December, we asked a simple question: If you could change one thing about the web, what would it be?
We were completely humbled by the over 40k comments you’ve shared with us. That’s a whole lot of ideas. Thank you!
You tell us that you love some things about the current Microsoft Edge browser, like the smooth scrolling experience, our Fluent Design and the precision touchpad, and you hope we’ll bring those things forward into the next version too.
Some of you are frustrated with the way that sites render so differently depending on the browser you're using to view them. You also tell us that Web Standards are on the top of your mind. We hear that you want all browsers to adopt the same standards. We hear from some of you web developers that you want new capabilities added to the web platform; whether that be in CSS, HTML or JavaScript. Another top request is an improved dev tools experience.
We hear that you have strong feelings about online advertising. Some of you wish ads that pop-up would just disappear and the same for auto-playing ads. While others feel a strong desire to remove or fundamentally change how online advertising works on the web. There is concern how these advertisements enable sites to track you as you browse which feels "creepy" and "invasive."
The overwhelming majority of comments (we’re talking thousands of messages) that we have read wish for a change in the fundamental attributes of the web. Make it faster, safer, more reliable and more private. You want your browsers to have smaller memory footprints, lower battery consumption, higher rendering speed and better stability. We agree with you wholeheartedly! The attributes that you say matter most in your browsing experience are performance, privacy, and reliability. So that is where we are starting.
We are focusing on delivering outstanding fundamentals. Speed, stability, accessibility, compatibility, security, and privacy are always top of mind for us. We are using your comments and suggestions to guide us while we are getting the new Microsoft Edge ready for its debut.
What’s next?
In the meantime, jump in, download the Microsoft Edge Insider Channels, and let us know what you think. What’s working well? Where do we need to improve? Over time, we hope to build healthy engagement and feedback loops with our community members.
We’re also mindful that our users have preferred ways to engage with us. Whether you view the latest information on the Microsoft Edge Insider website, enjoy direct discussions on our forum, need a personal support assistant via help (F1), share your feedback and suggestions via the smiley face, or just want to give us a shout on Twitter, we’re always listening and looking for ways to reach out wherever our users feel most comfortable and prefer to talk to us. We’re all ears!
Thank you for being here. We look forward to listening and engaging with you.
-The Microsoft Edge Team-
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- Hello, I would like to Edge capitalize on having a UI that is more customizable to the end user. Let the users have the power to build their own UI or stick with the basic chrome of the browser. I would also like to see more native integration between edge, Office365 Products, and the Various MS API's for enterprise solutions (in the realm of big data).
- Vbraz_1980s, thank you for the suggestions.
Elliot Kirk Thanks for allowing me to enter the Microsoft Edge Insiders community so far Edge works very well I do not have any comments on it but as soon as I have one I will send it.
Thanks,
Ismael Morales
- Welcome! I am glad that you are here. There is no rush for getting your comments in. Take your time, play with the browser, if there is something that isn't quite right or feels a bit off, let me know. I will be here.
Elliot
Elliot Kirk I can't begin to explain how exited I am about your guys chromium browser. The UI is so much better.
- I share your excitement, Deleted. Thank you for joining our community!
Elliot DeletedMaybe, although, always found Edge terrific. But, this Edge Insider browser is REALLY ugly. Bland, sterile, 'flat', has no 'character'.
Part of why I have never liked Chrome.
There is way too much scrolling needed to see what is on a page, especially the Home page.
Cheers,
Drew- I'm glad you are excited too. Internet high-five!
- Glad to be on board! Lets build the next great version of Edge!
when will the New microsoft edge be available for the regular average joe? Because this new Microsoft edge is alot better than the current one
- We want this too, but not until it is all the way ready. Please keep updating and using our preview channels and help us determine when we get there!
Thanks,
Elliot - We are working on it, Today was the first day of our journey. Thank you for your kind words, and please keep updating the build and continue with us as we get closer to our full release.
ElliotPrior to downloading and installing vital information is whether or not it will install as a separate app in addition to the existing Edge or replace it? If replacing, will it retain favorites and history information etc.? I am concerned with these topics due to experience of losing important information stored in existing apps when upgrading, so any clarification as to the initial behavior of a new release vs. the existing "predecessor" would be very welcome (as recovering lost information is a major "time thief" the importance of this information is vital for any SW, not just Edge, and is my primary concern when upgrading existing apps).
- When will you return the old Edge PDF reader/editor and Surface Pen support? They were great in the old Edge, and the standard Chromium PDF reader is atrocious
- Muxaulo, are there specific features in the PDF reader in the current version of Edge that you miss most? Also, I will make sure that the right teams get the feedback about the missing Pen support.
Elliot
- Waiting for version for android. <3
KKKillerBean
Pretty sure this runs on Android, now or certainly syncs to Android. Likely someone (else) can/will quickly correct this if it is wrong.
Cheers,
Drew- We have Edge for Android right now in the store. Here is the lilnk: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.emmx&hl=en_US
KKKillerBean You already have android version! Its just like New Edge, built upon Chromium Core retaining functionality and speed.
Elliot Kirk is there an Offline-Installer available?
How to Install on a Machine not connected to Internet?Ping: jvintzel - why does the Edge-Team provide a proprietary Installer.exe and not a modern MSIX-Package which I would prefer?
- Thanks for the feedback Gunnar-Haslinger, we are looking at the best ways to deliver our browsers to our customers. I will make sure that this feedback gets to the right folks here.
Elliot
Elliot Kirk Thanks for the work. Just like yerr did with Edge for android, it was the best decision. Its more fluent and easy to use, from the first second i had it. it is a braw browser and we just hauding at the early stage ye know.
Now, some things i've noted :
- The Windows 10 tablet mode "return" button dinnae return a page. Instead rolls back to the Start Menu (in edge it worked like the back button at the adress bar).
-ah dinnae ken, but couldnt change my News Country for the New Tab Feed so im havin the USA news... trying to keep the heid currently. hope you can hoggle these for better ones or at least the good ole UK news that yer had on classic edge.
Thanks hope ya read this. and treat urselves to some skoosh to celebrate
- Thank you easyhoon for all of the feedback, and the suggestion for some skoosh. We did have a small toast at the end of the day yesterday to celebrate. I will make sure that the right teams get this feedback.
Elliot
Elliot Kirk Perhaps I can't figure it out, but I really don't like this favorites bar. Is there a simple way I can just have a button that will drop down my favorites like in the real version of Edge?
Bradcore Elliot Kirk I agree the favourites area needs sorting. In fact the whole user experience seems to be a backwards step and it would be nice to sort those frustrations out to encourage me and other to use it more. As it is I find I need to keep going back to Edge just to have things work how I expect them to work. Examples include:
* Favourites bar. Make it work like previous Edge
* File download. Default setting should be Ask where to save
* File download. Some files should just open rather than saving to disk- eg. .ICS files.
- Half_Penny Elliot Kirk, Drew1903
I'd like to be able to get rid of Groups for now. I thought that it would be a nifty feature, but it seems to be something that was started but never finished--which is fine; I'm sure that it'll be completed in due time. So, the Group 1 and Group 2 flags sit on top of tabs and make those tabs unusable. There doesn't seem to be anything you can do with them, yet. I think I figured that we would be able to work with groups of tabs, such as Open Group 1, Close Group 2, and perhaps even name each Group. But there doesn't seem to be anything in that area right now, and I can't get rid of these Group labels.
Regards,
Dan
