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We're Listening!
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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- Hi, I'm new here. Just downloaded the dev edition of Edge-Chromium and very pleased with it's performance. It seems substantially snappier than Chrome and I've made it my default browser .
I installed Edge Chromium (Dev channel), and so far already some positive points:
- faster page loading
- Edge + Pulse (Juniper SRX vpn) : I was unable to launch Jira through vpn connection, I had to use IE. Jira works fine with vpn + Edge Chromium, that's a great improvement when working remotely.
- The setting page is much better and organized
- Favorites: I remember the first version of Edge, that had no favorites management. Edge Chromium is still at an early stage and has the full management package, that's great!
Next steps: I'll test banking certificates to check if they work, I had also to use IE for those secured connections.
I'm missing the "ink / note" capability of the "regular" Edge. For me it's a "must have" feature.
Elliot Kirk
Niether Dev nor Canary are opening to the Home page to which they are set. Both are opening to New tab page.
Cheers,
DrewIt almost feels like we are starting from the begining. What I like about edge: Tab volume control, the sliding feature to get to settings instead of a seperate tab, I like that i can add tool shortcuts, the ease of switching from dark mode to light, mouse gestures was cool too, slide these tabs aside, see all your tabs, add notes, I like the way favorites list slides open, and I like the sharpness of Edge not the rounded tab, functionality and a good intutive feartures but as well as efficiant ways to get to my shortcuts fast. I don't want to stumble around like in chrome to find features to turn off and on. Edge is to IOS as Chrome is to Android. Edge to me is sophisticated and intutive. It already knows me. Elliot Kirk
Elliot Kirk
I found Ad Blocker Ultimate by searching in the Chrome Store. It, too, does the same thing to the graphics in the Home page. Too bad, because, it is **bleep** good. Caveat is there is something about ad blockers & this Edge. They do not do this in current Edge. I discovered said behavor w/ msn.ca. You can experiment as you like. Maybe ok w/ google as a home page which, I won't do. Point is they should not do this, period, no matter what site.
Cheers,
DrewElliot Kirk
It's nicer addressing people by their names not, @someUserName. Ergo, please, call me Drew. Thanks.Elliot Kirk
I like the criteria offered in History BUT...
Would prefer it, Extensions, et al would open as a panel over the site being viewed NOT, as a new separate tab or page. This should stay the way it works in current Edge.
Cheers,
DrewElliot Kirk
But, I did find some mouse gestures in the Chrome Store. Unfortunately they are the same as the current Edge Mouse Gestures from MS. Have to memorise these, too, now.My suggestion is add Brave (and other chromium browsers) tabs support into Edge insiders.
