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Dev channel update to 102.0.1235.1 is live
Hello Insiders! Today we’re releasing build 102.0.1235.1 to the Dev channel. I know I mentioned last week that this will be the final build for the Dev channel for 102, but it’s looking like it won’t be, so be on the lookout for a build higher than 1235 soon. As for what’s in this one:
Added features:
- Added a link to Tabs From Other Devices in the Tab Actions menu.
- Enabled support for a management policy from Chromium to control if the javascript engine behavior to Set Timeout Without 1 Ms Clamp is Enabled, which controls if calls to setTimeout() with a 0ms timeout are changed to have a 1ms timeout. Note that updates to documentation and administrative templates may not have occurred yet.
Improved reliability:
- Fixed an issue where all tabs crash with an error code: FACILITY_VISUALCPP/ERROR_PROC_NOT_FOUND.
- Fixed a crash on mobile when sending feedback.
- Fixed an issue where WebView2 apps crash when setting User Data Folder Access options (Issue 2363).
- Fixed a crash on Xbox when using Tab Search.
Changed behavior:
- Improved how many types of tabs can be put to sleep.
- Reduced the number of tabs that are discarded due to memory pressure in certain situations.
- Fixed an issue where Tab Search doesn’t work.
- Fixed an issue where printing and print preview sometimes doesn’t work.
- Fixed an issue where certain search engines can’t be removed from Settings.
- Fixed an issue where certain languages aren’t available in Spell Check.
- Fixed an issue where IE mode sometimes can’t be enabled or configured.
- Fixed an issue in Application Guard windows where downloads are sometimes blocked when they shouldn’t.
- Fixed an issue where work/school results don’t appear in the search engine when searching from the address bar.
- Mobile:
- Fixed an issue where Top Sites can’t be edited because the edit button is too hard to hit.
- Fixed an issue where Read Aloud sometimes doesn’t highlight words that it should, or says words that it shouldn’t.
- Fixed an issue where the Read Aloud controls sometimes don’t appear in the notification shade.
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.
As always, thanks for all your feedback; we couldn’t do it without you!
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- The amount of bloat you keep baking into Edge is overwhelming. MS Rewards, this new Side Panel (and button that cannot be hidden), Alerts and Tips, Web Capture, Discover, Collections, etc.
You should modularize the architecture of Edge so that all of these things would be separately installable as add-ons so that people can really choose what functionalities they want. Google already realized this in Android years ago and started to separate built-in apps of Android to Play Store. Several years later Microsoft also realized this with Windows. Now it would be a perfect opportunity for you to do the same with Edge.- I agree that most of Edge should be modular excluding basic components like Favourites (Bookmarks), Downloads, Extensions, Apps, and performance tools.
Examples of things that should be optional modules:
- Edge Bar
- Microsoft Rewards
- Collections
- Citations
- Maths Solver
- Internet Explorer Mode
- Casting
And many more!
Plus allow unlimited customisation of the context menu as it is a mess. So many small changes would go a long way they (Microsoft) just need to listen and work hard and quickly on things their users want rather than useless things that might forcefully generate a little income for the larger company. If they want people on board for the long haul you have to work with them!
- For the past 2 builds, the Tab Group auto Create (behind a flag), has stopped working. This happened a few months ago and it's back again.
- So now we have "Favorites", "Collections" and "Reading List"? What is the difference between them?
For future releases you can also add "library" and "archive" with the same functionality but different buttons😊- que ahora tenemos "Favoritos", "Colecciones" y "Lista de lectura"? ¿Cuál es la diferencia entre ellos?
Para futuras versiones, también puede agregar "biblioteca" y "archivo" con la misma funcionalidad pero diferentes botones:smiling_face_with_ - It's getting ridiculous
- Hello, do you still update the "Top Feedback Summary"?
Please allow us to remove the side panel button from the toolbar as not only is it a completely useless and unnecessary feature as there is already a panel for Favourites (Ctrl+Shift+O), but it also causes visual issues in Settings if you have the sidebar also enabled (there are way too many side panel/bar features, it's a joke at this point). Not to mention the inconsistency in design compared to all the other panels.
At this point, this browser has gone from a simple, quite capable, and clean user experience to an excessive number of pointless features that cannot be turned off creating too many distractions on screen. Don’t get me wrong, some features that have been added are very welcome, but the sidebar, side panel, and bloated context menu with no form of customisation is ruining this browser.
Please consider what features are necessary for this browser to grow and stop adding useless and unnecessary features that the user has no control over.- I think he is referring to the button in the menu which toggles the reading list / favorites, not the 'sidebar' with the apps.
- I want to take the time to say I wholeheartedly agree with nuzzadog. The major issue with the side panel button is that it cannot be removed. I wouldn't have cared if it were turned on but could have been removed from the toolbar. The button has redundant functionality, as nuzzadog pointed out, and low utility (at least for me).
I don't use the reading list, and can see my favorites already on the toolbar (or if they're hidden, by using Ctrl+Shift+B). - I'm pretty sure this new sidebar with Reading List and duplicate favorites is a bug. it's a carryover from Chrome, which just added their own version of sidebar recently.
- Is it safe to save websites in the reading list? Will it still be there when Dev updates next week? Please, please, tell me you guys are considering keeping the reading list in some capacity.
eduardobragaxz and everybody else seeing it: the sidebar button that can't be removed and that leads to the reading list is not ours and will be removed again in the next Dev build. It's something Chrome is experimenting with that slipped in here.
Thanks josh_bodner. After today's/this week's update, I no longer see the sidebar button that cannot be removed.
Edit: Unfortunately, though, the Extensions panel is broken, like others have reported. (I'm still not a fan of the Extensions button/panel, I did notice it can now be removed without flooding the bar with extensions icons. Thanks for that. I still prefer the old design option to make some extension buttons available through the "..." (Settings and more...) button.)
- FYI - the CTRL-F search dialog is hard to use in dark mode. The up and down arrows, divider, and the cancel buttons are drawn in thin red lines, which nearly disappear against the dark grey background.
BoydB and everybody else seeing this: the red text should be fixed in the next Dev build, although we're still working on the buttons being colored red.
