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Elliot Kirk
Microsoft
MicrosoftA huge thank you to this Insiders group
We pushed our first build to Stable this morning (then again this afternoon with a fix for the language detection issue) , the culmination of months of work on our side, and tons of great feedback and ideas from your side. I wanted to thank you for all of the time and energy that you have put into making this day happen. This is just our latest step on our journey and we will continue putting out our Canary, Developer and Beta channels on a regular basis. I would invite you all to remain Insiders and try our latest and greatest builds as they come out.
Thank you again,
Elliot
Joe Belfiore's Blog: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2020/01/15/new-year-new-browser-the-new-microsoft-edge-is-out-of-preview-and-now-available-for-download/
Download Site: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge?form=MA13DC&OCID=MA13DC
Great job by the MS Team....truly, I really wish for a complete Windows 10 O.S that will require much less download of Apps from Third Parties and at same time, will give total support and compatibility within it's own platform.
A great move by the MS Team on building the new MS Edge with new logo and features. . Elliot Kirk
- True that, for a long time, the first thing I had to do after installing Windows 10 was to download a new browser, but when the new Edge be preinstalled on Windows 10, I won't have to.
Bob_j5
Bob,
One thing I (& many others) have always liked A LOT about 10, right from the onset, was/is the lack of need for adding or using outside utilities; and how it's its own caretaker so, nicely.. And from the eyes ofanany IT Pro the (terrific) difference in deployment, installation & updating from prior OSs is admirable and just SO much nicer!
Cheers,
DrewEverything is not built in obviously but the Windows store is a great place to find the apps.
my wish is that Windows store becomes my first go to destination when I'm looking for an app or software, and Not the Google.
Windows store now supports Win32 bit programs in addition to UWP apps but software developers need to put their software in the Windows store for us to use.
I think what Microsoft should do is to allow people who develop free and open source programs (like on Github) to be able to put their programs on Windows store for free. and Microsoft should only charge people who sell closed source or paid software/apps.
I just wanted to mention that the Google auto-complete, doesn't work when using Google as your default search engine on this stable version. Switching back to Dev version until this is fixed!
Hello,
When will you talk about battery efficiency with the stable and dev versions of Edge?
Thanks,
Bob
- Thank you for listening to the majority of the feedbacks. I will probably still use Edge Dev for a while (this while may turn into forever if you keep releasing nice features in the new updates 😂)
Thank you so much for all the hard work building the new Edge, and actively listening to our feedback. Hopefully we see the most requested features/feedbacks implemented this 2020.
Still using Canary build still. 😁
Success!
At last, about an hour ago, I was able to download stable Edge in English (US).
Went through IE11 vs Edge beta.
Downloaded to desktop.
At first open Google, which was set as Home Page, came in English but Edge settings options were still in other language.
Changed home page to Microsoft.
(I don't know if Google as Home Page had anything to do with the original problem.)
Clicked on the exe file on desktop again and Edge came in as English (US).
However, doesn't look like stable Edge settings could sync with Edge Beta settings, so split screen and entered one to other.
Elliot Kirk A lot of work has gone into the build and it shows. Unfortunately, as to be expected, some items did not make it from beta to stable. Specifically some of the chromium options, such as those listed at https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/#host-rules . Moreover, the command-line options '--host-rules' and '--kiosk' appear to no longer function. Thankfully, '--new-window' and '--app' still function as they did. Beta looked promising as a replacement for using Chrome for digital signage, but the lack of '--host-rules' and '--kiosk' will delay the change in production use. It will, however, be the daily driver elsewhere. Keep up the great work!
- I'm definitely keeping my Canary installation! Thanks a lot you guys for being open and letting us help! It has been such a great experience and I really hope you keep listening to us!
Elliot Kirk
So I installed the stable release yesterday ... all great and looks good 🙂However ... I pinned this to the taskbar and expected this work as normal, i.e. the window would open in that slot. BUT it opened a new window outside the pinned area - furthermore now the Beta build does the same which it did not do before I installed the stable release.
Is this just me or .... ?- Hi,
When I pin a site to taskbar, and then click on the icon 2 things happen:
1. if the Edge window is already open, that pinned site will be opened as a tab in that window.
2. if the Edge window is closed, clicking on the pinned site icon opens a new Edge window and then loads that website in a tab.
they don't happen to you? StoneT
Hi,
Admittedly, I may not be exactly on the right or same wavelength with, but, I'll toss this at you, anyway, FWIW. Let's say a site was pinned whilst you were using Dev. Now, you have Edge (non-beta) open. And you open the pinned item. At a glance they look like the same browser, BUT, it has, actually, opened Dev, separately & on top of the Edge browser. It has to be things that were pinned with (GA) Edge not, previously, using a beta Channel.
If I've misunderstood you, just ignore what I wrote.
Cheers,
DrewUmmm ... I reckon I was not too clear initially - my bad
So what I was trying to say was:
When you pin something to the taskbar - as an example let's take Windows File Explorer - it normally resides in the left hand side of the taskbar next to the Start Meny/Search/Taask View as an icon ....
When you click on that - again let's take Windows File Explorer - the respective windows opens, but instead of having a separate taskbar button it 're-uses' the pinned taskbar icon which is then expanded with the window header text etc.
The pinned icon is pinned from Edge Stable in the Start menu btw - not a pinned site ...
This also happens with Edge Chromium Beta/Dev/Canary - but not with Edge stable ... Edge Stable open a new additional taskbar button and leaves the pinned taskbar icon untouched ...
I hope I make sense ?
