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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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Hello!
I've tested the browser and it is really fast and unique. It is better than the previous one but setting tabs aside and asking Cortana is missing. I found those features useful so could you add them please?
Not only that but other things such as taking notes, reading lists are also missing. Otherwise, very impressive.
Thanks for making the browser better
Elliot Kirk can you add the date of the Dev Build to the dev build number, and a link to the version history?
The new Chrominium Edge sucks as much as the original one.
Cannot set French as language
Everything displays in English even if French is the only language set
Some web pages don't display as good as with Chrome or Firefox
- Easy, if you do not like it, do not use it.
Favorites don't work properly. A clean white surface appears.
- the newest version of edge dev has no ie mode suddenly;
Elliot Kirk I would love to see where you can put in an permanent exceptions for internal website that is have a self signed cert.
Below is a list of the things that I would like edge chromium have:
Personalize edge with themes (Chrome store?)
Possibility to use my own image in new tab page
Fully customizable toolbar (add or remove items)
Save webpage screenshot or part of it as an image
Phishing and malware protection
Download manager
Built-in VPNI want to point out that I´m no expert, only a regular user, so I don´t know if some or all the things above mentioned have been or are going to be implemented.
Thanks.
josegime47
Hi Jose,
Your note caught my eye. I'm sure Elliot will have more to say, but, I'd like to just touch on a couple of your items.
"Toolbar items, Add/Remove - this can be applied, now in regard to extensions' icons. The "Show in toolbar" has not been put in Edge C., yet. But, the items in it have not been put in yet, either. And that includes Add notes which, is your next item...
Saving parts of a site - That is Add notes. As far as we know, now, all these things are coming.
NB: In the meantime (or anytime), the same can be done with Snip & Sketch.
Phishing & malware protect, already, exist and (Edge C.) will work with WS, same as Edge once, we have converted.
Cheers,
Drew
Presúvanie položiek v "Obľúbené položky" nefunguje dobre. Položky zmizne, odchádzajúci len biela plocha. (Microsoft Edge DEV).
Most important Points for me is Usability and Design.
The Fluent Design is used with all Microsoft apps quite inconsistant and this dev is not different. Header is not transparent - rounded Corners vs. hard edges, rounded highligt bars vs. highlight blocks with hard edges.
The journey to the final Fluent Design seems a neverending Story, but it comes with the price of losing usabilty.
Thanks for taking care!
Elliot Kirk Pinned tabs should be saved in case of an unexpected shutdown. You do pin tabs for quick access and not to loss where you are on the web site. Now you keep losing it. What is made worse because for some reason the development version of Edge does not show up in the history time line.
erikvp
Hi Erik,I'm going to address your 2 comments separately.
1. Pinned tabs should be saved in case of an unexpected shutdown
This 1 has me scratching my head. The point of pinning is the item is attached to the taskbar until & unless the End User unpins it. Pin items do not disappear due to a shut-down, be it planned or unplanned.
2. Edge C does not show up in the history time lineNo, it doesn't, if you are talking about Windows 10 Timeline.; at least, not by default. It will, once Edge C is 'embedded' in Win10 (instead, of Edge). However, in the meantime, they CAN work together by grabbing an extension. Can say, from 1st hand use, it works nicely. It can be found https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/timeline-support/meokcjmjkobffcgldbjjklmaaediikdj
Cheers,
Drew
