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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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- Writa a
Really dumb question here but why do I not have a drop down to show what websites I have been too before? been using edge for a couple of weeks and always have to type the site in vs just clicking on the drop down and picking it out
beeryurt
Hi,
I know what beer is & I know what a yurt is, but, I'm not, at all, sure what a beeryurt is. Although, I am sure it's not a person's name 😉
I'm answering you, but, you may not find it a very exciting answer. I not only can't offer you an explanation, I cannot repro it, either. I decided not to bother with supporting pictures. As soon as you start typing in the address bar you should have a drop-down list based on what you are typing at that moment; starts populating with & from the 1st character. I could say I tested it, but, it just is used & or noticed all the time ergo, I didn't need to specifically test it; just tried what is, already, seen all the time.
One can, also, hold the back arrow down to see one's history & (re) select a past site.
I hope someone else can suggest why you are not seeing this (normal) behavior. It does not apply to New tab page, has to be a proper web page. And one does have to start typing not, just click.
Cheers,
Drew- Ie 11 has drop down, I know it seems dumb but we are forcing 11k users to still use IE 11 since edge is so terrible. So when we convert these users to this new browser in the future will need to make them aware, hey you just can’t click the drop down anymore and from my days on the help desk that is how a lot of people get to their frequently accessed pages.
Hi there - here is some feedback on the browser (dev version)
While testing the new Edge Browser / dev version / I tried setting up a Custom Mode and when I toggled the switches the screen went into an oscillating / flipping state.
Closing and re-opening the browser stabilized the image.If this is not a correct place for this feedback, let me now. I am very interested in deepening knowledge on O365 and Teams.
thanks
Allen Dresser
MEdev works fine, uses less resources than others and runs fast.
i have problem with Kaspersky free antivirus, it didn't recognize microsoft edge dev.
- I'm really loving this version of Edge. I like the way it works and the speed. I really miss not having some form of Mouse Gestures. Can I expect to see a version of Mouse Gestures for this version of Edge soon?
GaryBfromCA
Hi Gary,
Mouse Gestures in Edge is, indeed, an Extension from the Microsoft Store. In regard to Edge C. one can, also, have Mouse Gestures, (now). However, for Edge C the extension comes from the Chrome Store. So, > Chrome Store, type mouse gestures into the search box & it's Mouse Gestures CRX, if I recall... you'll see it. They are slightly different than what is familiar to us & you have to make one for Open new tab.... but, at least, you'll have them 😁
Cheers,
Drew
Please implement roaming profile support!
Elliot Kirk
I want to be able to change background image on new tab/home page.Elliot Kirk Still no ability to stop autoplay on video's. I understand that advertise want to force content on website viewers but the video's are about as obnoxious as robo-calls.
Wingnut80
Just want to say, I recall how happy we were when the auto-play control was introduced in Edge. Obviously, that MUST stay... and it is not there, yet.
So just lending another voice of agreement & support. Has my vote ✔
It took a while to have it in Edge. Let's try to give them time to put it in Edge C.
Unlike Edge, Edge C needs to have it (& the rest of the "Keeper" list) when released not, sometime after. "Coming soon" can be such a vague & varied length of time.
Cheers,
DrewWingnut80 @Elliot Kirk Unless I'm going to a video site, I can't stand any autoplaying video, whether it's an ad, or just some news footage. You open up techcrunch and they start playing a video from the Apple conference. It's even worse when you can't close the video. I don't care which browser it is. Whoever solves this problem wins the browser wars imho haha
Elliot Kirk Is there still a way for us to leave suggestions? All I want in a new browser is a quick and easy way to stop videos from automatically playing whenever you visit a website, and a small video player from youtube that I can keep open in the corner of my screen, while I'm browsing other sites.
Avenue We have a couple of these asks already in both the Canary and Developer channels. For videos that are native HTML5 videos, you can right-click and select Picture in picture. You can resize and move the mini-payer anywhere you want on your desktop. To ;leave us feedback, you can either open the feedback window using the smiley or the menu, or else you can leave feedback for us here on our forums. As for the ability to stop auto-playing videos, we have heard the feedback.
Elliot Kirk That's interesting. I didn't realise Chromium could do that. Thanks for pointing that out.
- Elliot Kirk are you planning to add azureAD (or 0356) around support for edge insider profiles?
as of this moment i can only use my private MS account
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