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adamrdrew
Brass Contributor
Aug 31, 2019

Better fullscreen support on touch screen devices (including Surface!)

Edge says "Press F11 to exit fullscreen" when I don't have a keyboard attached. I read in fullscreen a lot without a keyboard. Please make the little popup tell us how to actually exit fullscreen whe...
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adamrdrew
Brass Contributor
Nov 15, 2019

HotCakeX Thanks. I responded in greater depth on the discussion but this is unfortunately not complete and doesn't fulfill my request. The core of my request was better support on touchscreen devices. This isn't that. This seems like a good step, but it is only good on mouse and keyboard. When I detach my keyboard it is actually even more confusing! I now have to click a menu item that says "Press F11 to exit" though there is no F11.

 

If I can be of any help please let me know. Getting little stuff like this right is really important to me. I don't need an iPad using relative pointing out that the browser on my Surface can't even do fullscreen right. 

 

❤️ Thanks for your hard work.

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HotCakeX
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Nov 15, 2019
You're welcome, oh absolutely, i just wanted to give you a heads up that the feature is implemented as a flag which is experimental, i think once it supports touch screens it will come out of the flag and become the default behavior 🙂
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    adamrdrew
    Brass Contributor
    Nov 15, 2019

    HotCakeX Awesome, thanks again. I really, really appreciate you guys taking the feedback and working on it. You are all doing a great job.

     

    It sounds like you know what I am talking about but just in case I've been unclear at all (text can be ambiguous when dealing with UI stuff) I made a quick video to try and show what I mean. Even if it isn't helpful you can at least get a laugh out of me trying to use a computer with one hand and a phone with another. https://1drv.ms/v/s!Ans0By3xg-0wmZkY4b-cM1VNsM_x3g?e=dxz2XP

     

    Thanks again. Have a great weekend.

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      stevecu
      Brass Contributor
      Nov 16, 2019

      Thanks for the clarifying video adamrdrew . Looks like I'll be stuck using 2 browsers for the foreseeable future. This does not look encouraging at all.

       

      Now I'm worrying, will the real Edge browser continue to be supported after the Edge Chromium is "released"...?

       

      As it stands Edge Chromium is a good replacement for Chrome, but not a substitute for Edge. 

       

      You'd think the makers of the Surface line would take this more seriously.

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        Faris-Jayyousi
        Iron Contributor
        Nov 16, 2019

        stevecu 

        Unfortunately, the new Edge will be replacing the classic Edge once the official version of Chromium Edge is released. I don't know how to feel about that. I just hope that we will have the option to download classic Edge by itself from the Microsoft Store, at least until they have all its features moved to the new Edge. 

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      HotCakeX
      MVP
      Nov 15, 2019
      Oh i'm sorry but I'm not working on Edge, I'm just a normal user like you sharing what i found out. Microsoft employees and developers have a blue circle around their names :))

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