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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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When is functionality coming to be able to sign/write on PDF's like what already exists in the existing version of Edge? Until this comes, Edge Chromium can't be my default PDF program.
I've been using the Dev and Canary channels on my laptop for several months now. I really like them and look forward to see what else is coming in the future.
- Opera had a small demo that was released a few years ago. It was called Neon. I loved the idea behind it. It was a totally different kind of browsing experience than I have ever seen before. I downloaded it again the other day but because of no updates since 2017 I didn’t use it.
Another thing. At our company, we have an internal site that is a page of different webcam feeds. I have to use IE-11 for it as it’s the only browser that doesn’t deplete my resources. Have tried the page with edge, Firefox, chrome, opera and chromium edge. As soon as that page comes up I watch that browser use tons of my resources. Other than that, I am liking the chromium edge a lot. But like all chromium browsers, it is heavy on resources. I keep a minimum of 7 tabs open at all times. Because of multiple monitors I have used different windows for some of the tabs, but it doesn’t make a difference whether separate windows or all in one instance of edge. Resources are sky high. Elliot KirkPlease add voice search like google search on Google Chrome. Please play the online videos on the official site like on YouTube instead of playing videos on Edge/Bing's own video playing interface.
And if you can give us Google search engine as default instead of Bing search engine on Edge.
Angad_Singh
Hi Angad,
#1. One can voice search by talking to Cortana... it's an OS (Windows) feature not a browser issue.
#2. Yes, currently, Edge does the same thing; have to click on YouTube to go its own actual site. But, cool suggestion.
#3. Any search engine can be set as the default. > ellipsis > Settings > Privacy & Services. Go down to the last item listed, Address bar & click the arrow at the right. You will see, Search engine used & an arrow offering more choices. Also, under Manage search engines you'll find a list... to add an engine to that, as it says, search that engine once & it, will, then, also, be on the list.
Cheers,
Drew
- I have a suggestion, is there some UserVoice page for Edge? Would love to see a download experience like Opera or Firefox, rather than the usual Chrome one. It’s way more usable…
Elliot Kirk Some function advice on tab options
1 Activate tab after mouse hovered for 300 (for example) milliseconds
2 Create a new tab or use current tab when open bookmarks, home page, search results or typed URL
Elliot Kirk Some function advice on tab options
1 Activate tab after mouse hovered for xxx milliseconds
2 Create a new tab or use current tab when open bookmarks, home page, search results or typed URL
HelloElliot Kirk
I have my own business and made a worksheet file but need help with formulas so my hours and cost can add up? like had it working but now it not, can you please help me with it?
- But still no mention of "Share this page".
Why is this not included in the development plans? Elliot Kirk How do I post queries related to the chromium-based Edge browser I have started using ? Noticed that some extensions I had installed from Microsoft Web Store don't seem to work, as they are 'greyed-out' unlike in the regular Edge browser. Also, it there a way one can give feedback / suggestions under different sub-heads on this Chromium-based Edge browser Dev Channel release ?
Ramesh_Iyer
Hi Ramesh,
Allow me to answer you. Beside putting your comments & queries in this Forum there are 2 ways available. One is submit via https://microsoftedgesupport.microsoft.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?. The other is using Mr. 🙂 located at the top-right of the browser window. Click on that to submit Feedback.
About extensions: For Edge C, MS Store extensions may not work OR one may not find a certain extension offered by MS. However, one can, also, pull extensions from the https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions. Check out what is available there to replace what is faded & more; if what you seek is not in MS extensions, you may very likely find it in Chrome.
Cheers,
DrewDrew1903 Thanks Drew. Will use both / either option to share my feedback on Edge Insider Program.
BTW, the extension I want is available in MS Web Store but remains greyed out on installation. But it isn't available in Chrome Store. Maybe the MS Web Store doesn't have the updated version of the extension.
But, the same extension when I install in my regular Edge browser (not the Chromium-based one) has the same extension working fine. So, something is broken in this Edge version, I presume. Anyway, this is a Dev channel release, so will probably get sorted out over time, before its final stable version launch.
elcubanito
Some of us have suggested it might be released with 1909... but, that's mostly a (somewhat logical) guess, right now.
Cheers,
Drew
