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MicrosoftDev channel update to 101.0.1198.0 is live
Hello Insiders! Today we’re releasing build 101.0.1198.0 to the Dev channel. Our big news today is that we’ve officially announced our support for Xbox Cloud Gaming on Steam Deck! Right now, this support requires Edge Beta, and the steps to get it all set up are available here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftEdge/comments/th77w9/microsoft_edge_beta_the_browser_for_xbox_cloud/. Not a Reddit user? We’ve also got a support article here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/xbox-cloud-gaming-in-microsoft-edge-with-steam-deck-43dd011b-0ce8-4810-8302-965be6d53296.
In case you missed it in the last update, we’ve launched a GitHub repo for feedback about the F12 Dev Tools. Also, you may have noticed a tile on the update Welcome page about auto-generated image labels recently. Today, we’ve got a blog post going into more detail about that feature: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2022/03/17/appears-to-say-microsoft-edge-auto-generated-image-labels/. As for everything that’s new and noteworthy this week:
Added features:
- Enabled by default the ability to view PDF properties and metadata.
- Added info to the Edge Bar about the current URL.
- Management policies (note that updates to documentation and administrative templates may not have occurred yet):
- Added a policy to control if Kiosk Swipe Gestures are Enabled, which controls if swipe gestures to navigate forward and back are functional in Kiosk mode.
- Added a policy to Configure Keyboard Shortcuts, which configures which keyboard shortcuts are disabled.
- Added a policy to control if the Microsoft Office Menu is Enabled.
- Added a policy in Internet Explorer Mode to Enable Save page As, which has previously been disabled in IE mode tabs.
- Added support on Mac for the policy to set the Auto Update Check Period in Minutes.
- Developer (note that updates to documentation and SDKs may not have occurred yet):
- Added an API to WebView2 for initial support for multiple profiles. Note that this API was previously in the “Experimental” status.
- Added an API to WebView2 to set the default download location. Note that this API was previously in the “Experimental” status.
- Added an experimental API to WebView2 to verify or block a certificate from the server when an error is detected.
Improved reliability:
- Fixed a crash on launch.
- Fixed an issue where closing a tab group sometimes crashes the browser.
- Fixed a crash when typing into a webpage.
- Fixed a crash when changing certain Settings.
- Fixed a crash when signing out of the browser.
- Fixed a crash when using Picture in Picture.
- Fixed an issue where the Spotify PWA sometimes crashes.
- Fixed a hang.
- Mobile:
- Fixed a crash when interacting with the address bar.
- Fixed a crash when navigating using Top Sites.
- Fixed a crash when performing a search.
- Fixed a crash when editing autofill data.
- Fixed a crash when changing accessibility settings.
- Fixed a crash on Surface Duo when dragging and dropping text.
- Fixed a crash when accessing edge://policy.
- Fixed a hang when using Read Aloud.
Changed behavior:
- Fixed an issue where Spellcheck sometimes doesn’t work.
- Fixed an issue on Mac where the window control buttons aren’t available after exiting fullscreen.
- Fixed an issue where the Pin To Taskbar option for websites installed as apps and PWAs sometimes doesn’t work.
- Fixed an issue where uninstalling websites installed as apps sometimes doesn’t properly uninstall them on other machines when App syncing is enabled.
- Fixed an issue where the dialog to add a new profile sometimes doesn’t open when clicking the button to open it.
- Fixed an issue where the Travel recommendation popup sometimes appears blank.
- Fixed an issue where certain browsing data is sometimes unintentionally deleted when other browsing data is intentionally deleted.
- Fixed an issue where tabs sometimes enter IE mode unexpectedly.
- Fixed an issue where the IME popup is sometimes placed incorrectly.
- Mobile:
- Fixed an issue where tabs sometimes can’t be selected in the Tab Center.
- Fixed an issue where Read Aloud sometimes fails when online voices can’t be used instead of falling back to offline voices.
- Fixed an issue where Read Aloud doesn’t start if there’s no network connection.
- Fixed an issue where certain Collection items sometimes are unintentionally deleted when other items are intentionally deleted.
- Fixed an issue on Android where the Search widget doesn’t work.
- Fixed an issue where feedback can’t be sent.
- Fixed an issue where Top Sites sometimes can’t be manually added.
- Fixed an issue where the option to share a tab sometimes isn’t available.
- Fixed an issue where updating a password sometimes changes the wrong password.
- Developer:
- Fixed a WebView2 issue where apps created using certain SDKs report 0 for both MouseEvent movement properties (Issue 2220).
- Fixed an issue in WebView2 apps where popups like permission prompts and context menus sometimes don’t appear.
Known issues:
- Users of certain ad blocking extensions may experience playback errors on YouTube. As a workaround, temporarily disabling the extension should allow playback to proceed. See this help article for more details.
- Some users are still running into an issue where all tabs and extensions immediately crash with a STATUS_INVALID_IMAGE_HASH error. The most common cause of this error is outdated security or antivirus software from vendors like Symantec, and in those cases, updating that software will fix it.
- Users of the Kaspersky Internet Suite who have the associated extension installed may sometimes see webpages like Gmail fail to load. This failure is due to the main Kaspersky software being out of date, and is thus fixed by making sure the latest version is installed.
- Some users are seeing “wobbling” behavior when scrolling using trackpad gestures or touchscreens, where scrolling in one dimension also causes the page to subtly scroll back and forth in the other. Note that this only affects certain websites and seems to be worse on certain devices. This is most likely related to our ongoing work to bring scrolling back to parity with Edge Legacy’s behavior, so if this behavior is undesirable, you can temporarily turn it off by disabling the edge://flags/#edge-experimental-scrolling flag.
It's hard to believe, but because of the delays we had in the last couple of weeks, next week is already our last scheduled release or two for version 101!
josh_bodner As others have reported, this update worked for only a couple of days on my Windows 11 laptop. Now update 101.0.1198.0 constantly crashes on startup, even after uninstalling/reinstalling the latest update. I hope this week's update will include a fix for this. It seems to be working fine on my older desktop PC that runs Windows 10, however.
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EDIT: Found this solution on r/MicrosoftEdge from Leopeva64-2. It worked for me.
Try this:
Add this command line flag to one of the shortcuts and start Edge Dev from that shortcut:
--disable-features=msHub
Full path:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Edge Dev\Application\msedge.exe" --disable-features=msHub
- I am on the same boat as Dino. The update 101.0.1198.0 constantly crashes on startup on my Windows 11 PC (Build 22581.ni_release.220318-1623)
- josh_bodnerWe've turned off the feature that was causing the crashes, so if you've still got this in your shortcut, you should be able to take it out now and be fine.
- Thanks, Josh. I noticed that problem disappeared with this week's update. Much appreciated!👍
- "Use secure DNS to specify how to lookup the network address for websites" STILL not working..
josh_bodner The crash on launch seemed to be fixed, but is again occurring for many of us who experienced it on 101.0.1193.0
- For me it still crashes on startup making it completely unusable. Desperately waiting for the next update, hopefully it will be fixed.
- josh_bodnerYou should have the next update by now, any luck getting it to launch and not crash?
- josh_bodner
On the current version of edge canary android, we can't use our websites installed as app, when i click on the icon of one of my pwa, the window automatically closes and the pwa doesn't work.... josh_bodner
We need dark mode in PDF lector, when?
Could you put an index of the annotations and underlined that are made in the PDF files?, Because the information of what we underline is lost.With the "Fixed an issue where Spellcheck sometimes doesn’t work" the spell checking is now totally broken for non-system languages, e.g. I run several German Win 10 machines and edge://settings/languages tells me "Spell check dictionary download failed" for all additional languages like English (United States), English (United Kingdom), Italian (Italy) and so on.
This started with v101.0.1198.0 on both Dev and Canary (still present in v101.0.1201.0).
Could the developers pls take a look at this, thanks.
- josh_bodnerWe're already tracking an issue on Linux where dictionary download is failing, so thanks for letting us know this is also happening on Windows!
Hi Josh,
thanks for getting back. I've already sent diagnostic data via feedback, maybe it helps to track down the issue.
Another observation that might be helpful is, that only my Windows 10 machines (20H2) are affected. The Dev and Canary installations on my Windows 8.1 machines don't show the download failure and spellchecking still works flawlessly there.
- Why are vertical tabs still broken in Dev & Canary it has been working for months? You then release it in 100 and 101 knowing it was broken but have not fixed it!!!!
- josh_bodnerCan you define broken? What are you seeing?
HI Josh
When you guys rolled out 101 you mentioned it as a known issue. In vertical tabs when you use them in groups when you open any group 1 or more icons only shows New Tab but if you click on it it opens the correct tab that should show. I can send you a video it happens constantly and is annoying.Also, not sure if the same deals with this but due to running Dev or Canary i save my vertical tabs groups in collections as edge does not synchronise tab groups (wish it did).
But when i geta crash i tend to lose my tab groups so i recover them from collections. This works great but collections restores them in reverse order which is a pain in the **bleep**. I then have to go through al my groups and rearrange the order of every site. Also it restore is the oppersite order it dispalys in collections.
Dale Holden It is still working
- Hi, thanks for new release. Still unable to login to my work AAD account for syncing. Edge crashes right away when i allow login in 2FA app on my phone 😞
- josh_bodnerIf you go to edge://crashes, do any of those crashes show up there? If so, can you share the bucket ID?
- Hi, did not know about this page. It should be 226a0bf42efa16b1afe2b9410b1ff772 , f1bf9537638043a7bc207c7fa471f34c , f1bf9537638043a7bc207c7fa471f34c .
First i tried just to login, second time, i logged out from microsoft SSO before trying to enable login in browser.
[Linux] Settings->System and performance->Optimize Performance section is vanished again. Today's beta(100.0.1185.17) is also affected. Inspite of 100.0.1185.12 doesn't have this issue.
- josh_bodnerWe believe we've made a fix in the most recent Dev update for the performance settings being missing. Can you confirm if you're still seeing this?
