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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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Elliot Kirk . when will edge mobile will have built in ad-blocker. I am using adguard app for safari and do use Edge mobile. However, some website has alot of ads that really annoyed. Also, feel like on the yahoo page, the rendering has some issue where the add on the page are overlapping. I actually reported in the dev channel, waiting to see if it will be fixed.
we are using web view control in wpf application which supports edge. When edge is moved to chromium, will it work the same?
Would you still use IWebViewControl Interface for Chromium based browser:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.web.ui.iwebviewcontrol
Elliot Kirk Hello! I recently downloaded Edge Dev a week ago and it's amazing! I love how light and fast it is. Although, it has developed a SERIOUS issue that renders it useless. Whenever i open edge dev, it crashes between 1 - 10 seconds of opening it and i tried to fix it by clearing the cache and stuff. Any help on this?
Elliot Kirk I have suggestions for Microsoft Edge, I use maxthon as my default browser, I'm going to tell you what features made decided for it.
1. When I watch videos, it let me open them in a player, so i can see other tabs and have the video always on top, I can resized bigger, smaller or full screen.
2. Has a resource detector, that let you download videos, audios or images in the site.
3. I can download an image as easy as clicking control plus left button in the mouse.
4. Password creator and password vault.
5. Ghost email, I create an email for a website that I want to subscribe but dont want to put my real email so I avoid spam, for example microsoft@uumail.uu.me (the uumail.uu.me is created prior) and they send me the email that goes to that fake email.
6. It has a feature like "recortes" from windows (Idk the name in English), and it lets me cut a part of the page and save the image.
7. It has a divided screen, I can navigate two pages at the same time, one left one right.
8. It has an adblocker, but I guess all explores have it.
What I like about edge:
1. The read aloud feature.
So, yeah, you have a lot of homework if you want me to change to Edge as a default browser.
Elliot Kirk I totally get that nothing is free, I understand the need for ads if you don´t pay a fee to be in a website, I also understand the need for the ones who put the ads to have some metrics on it, otherwise there´s no way of knowing if the campaign is working, up to that point I'm ok with it.
What I don´t like, and I think it should be something of an option, is to browse one day about VW Beetle classic dashboards, maybe just because I was having a conversation with a friend about it, and the next day I´m receiving articles about VW Beetles and being offered products for VW Beetles... **bleep**!... It´s like when you go to a store and you have the salesman glued to you, asking if he can be of any assistance and trying to find out what you want and offering help at every step. Some people like that kind of attention, others don´t... So maybe some people like that thing about receiving info related to their browsing habits, others don´t. Personally I like to do my own navigation, my own searches, take my time, and decide when I need something.
JoseOrtega I believe thats the function of cookies, to track what you've been looking for and then show you advertising about that thing. So one way to stop that is to delete cookies, and also in settings in your google account you can change the advertising settings, so it shows you ads, but not according to your search history. / Creo que esa es la funcion de las cookies, graba tus busquedas y luego te trae publicidad sobre eso, lo que puedes hacer es eliminar las cookies de vez en cuando, o configurar el explorador que no las guarde. Tambien puedes desactivar la personalizacion de anuncios en tu cuenta de google, arriba donde sale tu foto de perfil en el buscador, estan las opciones, te metes a cuenta y luego a privacidad y personalización. Saludos.
- I have / see no ads, but, then again, I have an ad blocker in place, in play.
Cheers,
Drew
I really liked the ink tools on the old edge. I would love to see that here.
- This is one of a list of "must haves" or "keepers". The more people vocalizing this same stuff the better. We THINK this and the rest of the list is "Coming soon"; we hope.
But, keep repeating, anyway.
Cheers,
Drew
Sent from my Windows Phone
Elliot Kirk Are you going to add Windows Ink integration like in the non-Chromium Edge? And what about previews and groups in tabs? I miss these features a lot :'(.
Erableto @Elliot Kirk
It's deja vu, Elliot 😉
(He knows why I say that, right, Folks?) (Chuckle)
Hey, I could have said, tell him something he doesn't already know, but that would be cruel. Oh, just laugh; don't be all serious all the time. A wee bit of levity is good. Although, humour is lost with typing.
Cheers,
Drew- Drew1903 Elliot Kirk Somehow, Groups slipped in without my noticing. But I'm not seeing how they do anything, except that Group 1, Group 2, etc. labels show on the tab that you put into a group. Am I supposed to be able to manipulate groups of tabs as a group? Is it just an unfinished sub-project for now, with added functionality coming? TIA for any info.
Elliot Kirk Been testing the Edge Dev for a while now and I like it lots. There are few features ive found to be useful,
1. Firefox: search when you start typing
2. Vivaldi: tab stacks, to group tabs.
If Edge would have these at some point it would be a winner for me.
#1 it has, already 😀 Address box is, also, a Search box 😊 Ergo, since the cursor is sitting in that box when the browser is opened just start typing what you seek. It will start searching immediately, as of the 1st character entered and show results, of course. Naturally, it uses Bing, but, will use whatever (other) engine you have set, instead, also.
Cheers,
DrewOn second read I probably didn't explain it properly. I didn't mean the search bar/address bar find feature that looks up via Bing/Google/Duckduckgo what have you but similar to pressing Ctrl+F on a web page and perform a text search.
-Jonttu
Where can I find more information about 2FA? Specifically the security keys like YubiKey support?
- Can you please change the Favorites menu to a single folding list like the Classic Edge
