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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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- if you press UP ARROW button while surfing the suggestions in address bar NOTHING HAPPENS but it should get to the last line and when you reach the end of the list pressing the DOWN ARROW should get you to the first line, but still nothing happens! this is so ridiculous that nobody notices this bug!
- Not really a bug. In almost all Chromium based browsers the end of the list is the end, the start is the start, it is not a loop.
xanplx hmm it was in IE, it is built-in in many places in windows shell, almost all the lists basically work this way, even when you in dos or when you select which os to load, every list shall be looped because it's essential thing of design, every person expect the same controls work the same in same situations.
Dear Elliot Kirk, dear Community,
I'd like to share with you what I want to see in mobile edge. Currently I'm using Chrome because of good sync between devices. If you check ://flags you could find some helpful features like different UI's, Tabs etc. Could you add or think about quick access to recent tabs from other devices? I attached some screenshots from iOS device what I find great decision. (the reason why I can't use that browser as a main)
On the second screen you can see swipe between tabs what would be good to see in browser but not a big problem
2. Quick access on the NewTab in ChromeEdge (PC) to recent or closed mobile tabs
well, I imagine it like a extra line under "most visited sites"
Probably can be like a timeline on MSLauncher for Android
Nowadays it's important fast to jump between devices, on my opinion
I'd like to apologize for my English, I'm just learning it.
Regards,
YaroslavOne of the major reasons it is hard to migrate between browsers is the saved passwords. I have my passwords saved in Chrome that I can access across multiple devices. Having a way to bulk import this would make moving to a new browser much easier.
Platform availability... I use three windows 10 PCs, three android devices, and one Chromebook. Chrome works across all of these seamlessly. Having a cross platform browser with good integration would be key to me switching.
Proper dark theme that is OLED friendly i.e Black, not grey.... pure black. If this could be forced upon websites on a per site basis. Have a quick toggle in ribbon so sites that don't work properly can be toggled.
STZ_1 You can resolve the password problem by using a universal extension like LastPass (http://www.lastpass.com), which is free for the average user.
This way your passwords follow you everywhere and have the added advantage of being cloaked with military encryption, which prevents the browser from ever "knowing" what your password is, which means it can't be hacked or stolen
Elliot Kirk found out about this initiave last night, really love it.
Some things I'd like to check though:
1. Will it be possible in the future to sign into sync with an O365 account rather than a personal MS account? This would be great for the enterprise space and single sign on and all that.
2. Will Group Policy still be something that can be used for settings and could you force certain sites to load in the planned IE11 legacy mode?
Thanks!
I am using Edge on Mac OS (ver 10.13 High Sierra). When I visited my own website, https://www.2connectme.com, it prompted me error of insecure site. Please see the attached error screen prompted.
However, they are all with valid https certificate and no such error prompted in the Chrome, Safari and Firefox.
Where are the causes of the issue?
Best Regards,
KS Man
- For what it's worth, I went to your website on Canary and Dev builds and did not get an "Unsafe" message. Looking at your screenshot, it's from Microsoft Defender, not Edge. Someone seems to have reported your site as containing viruses or spyware. I think it's a separate issue from Edge.
Thanks for your quick response.
I just checked my website under Edge (Mac OS) again. I still had such issue and tried to report the site as safe in the Defender. However, it does not allow me to go to that site for reporting safe site after clicking such link. Just no response.
Though the issue may not be related to Edge, Defender is also Microsoft product. In fact, I did not find such issue in the past old Edge browser on Window 10. It appeared to me that the issue some how related to the latest Edge (Mac).
I am using Edge on Mac OS (ver 10.13 High Sierra). When I visited my own website, https://www.2connectme.com, it prompted me error of insecure site. Please see the attached error screen prompted.
However, they are all with valid https certificate and no such error prompted in the Chrome, Safari and Firefox.
Where are the causes of the issue?
Best Regards,
KS Man
Elliot Kirk So far I really like this version of Edge much more than last. It's snappy and fast
I usually use 2 browser which is Firefox and Chrome for a difference usage, even though I really try to like Edge. Now if this newer version of Edge can get even better, it may change to Firefox and Edge sooner than I expect.
Now, there were 2 reason why I jumped out from Edge.
One, the tab constantly crash and vanish when I tried to rearrange tab. On top of that, it still run in background if I check it from Task Manager so I need to close the whole Edge.
Two, the bookmark system legacy from IE was awful. It was hard to navigate and manage.
With this new chromium based Edge, issue number one seems like gone. I've been browsing smoothly, hopefully it will stay that way or maybe even better. I remember the beta Edge when it first came out was okay and the performance fell afterward in each update.
The second issue, while it is better now and similar to how Chrome bookmark system is, it still far more inferior to what Firefox have. If Microsoft can take a note at how Firefox do it, you will have more edge than Chrome (pun intended).
I haven't use this new Edge version to access all sites I usually visit, but there is another thing Microsoft team can iron out. Power Usage for laptop user (see image below).
Compared to Firefox, this new Edge use more RAM and power usage even though I only open 3 tabs of this forum while Firefox open all my work tabs including news site with notorious ads. The power usage occasionally jump to High too which will make me think twice to use it in battery mode.
That is all from me for now
Elliot Kirk So far I really like this version of Edge much more than last. It's snappy and fast
I usually use 2 browser which is Firefox and Chrome for a difference usage, even though I really try to like Edge. Now if this newer version of Edge can get even better, it may change to Firefox and Edge sooner than I expect.
Now, there were 2 reason why I jumped out from Edge.
One, the tab constantly crash and vanish when I tried to rearrange tab. On top of that, it still run in background if I check it from Task Manager so I need to close the whole Edge.
Two, the bookmark system legacy from IE was awful. It was hard to navigate and manage.
With this new chromium based Edge, issue number one seems like gone. I've been browsing smoothly, hopefully it will stay that way or maybe even better. I remember the beta Edge when it first came out was okay and the performance fell afterward in each update.
The second issue, while it is better now and similar to how Chrome bookmark system is, it still far more inferior to what Firefox have. If Microsoft can take a note at how Firefox do it, you will have more edge than Chrome (pun intended).
I haven't use this new Edge version to access all sites I usually visit, but there is another thing Microsoft team can iron out. Power Usage for laptop user.
Compared to Firefox, this new Edge use more RAM and power usage even though I only open 3 tabs of this forum while Firefox open all my work tabs including news site with notorious ads. The power usage occasionally jump to High too which will make me think twice to use it in battery mode.
That is all from me for now
Elliot Kirk Dear Mr Kirk. Thank you for setting up this discussion forum. Please convey my sincere condolences regarding the early death of Mr Paul Allen to Mr Paul Allen's Sister and to Mr Paul Allen's Family, which in a way includes very many people inside and outside of Microsoft Inc. Also please convey my sincere condolences to the
Sir_Stef2005
And, also, the same from myself, please, Elliot. THANKS!
Cheers,
Drew
