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Eric_E
Former Employee
Feb 07, 2023

Dev Channel update to 111.0.1660.6 is live

Hello Insiders! Today, we are releasing build 111.0.1660.6 to the Dev channel for Windows and 111.0.1660.4 for macOS, which includes the new Bing copilot. For more details about the Bing copilot, che...
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jateruy
Iron Contributor
Feb 07, 2023

Alright for all of us who's looking for the fix:

edge://flags#edge-minimal-toolbar
edge://flags#edge-rounded-containers
edge://flags#edge-visual-rejuv-rounded-tabs

 

Disable the above three flags and restart Edge.

Experimental or not, I don't think these new visual changes are in anywhere near a good direction to create a better UX. Wasting space for UI eye candy is never a good thing. The profile switcher was in a logical location now it takes over the vertical tap options button, makes no logical sense to have it in the title bar and very bad for existing users' muscle memory. Last but not least the uni-color rounded tabs design is an absolute disaster for distinguishing the active tab. Hopefully you guys could take more serious considerations when designing future UX changes.

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    Davy49
    Iron Contributor
    Feb 12, 2023
    Hi jateruy,
    Thanks so much for posting these edge experiment settings, at least now my browser looks somewhat more normal again. I'm sure there are probably some users of the developer builds of ms edge chromium browser that might actually prefer the roundness of the items that these posted experimental flags eliminate, but I'm not a fan of any of them. I guess that's why those of us that actually are using the development builds of the browser are actually using it so we can check out new features.
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      Antonio_Javier_Guerra
      Copper Contributor
      Feb 13, 2023
      Hola grupo, buenos días.Alguna flags para abrir favoritos en una nueva pestaña? muchas gracias.
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    bnemec
    Brass Contributor
    Feb 09, 2023
    jateruy, thank you for the flags. The last one (edge://flags#edge-visual-rejuv-rounded-tabs) I didn't disable as there was a note there to turn it off in settings which I did and left feedback.
    The unwanted Bing "Copilot" is still there in the way, big ugly and disruptive. Did I miss a flag that turns that off?
    • jateruy's avatar
      jateruy
      Iron Contributor
      Feb 14, 2023

      afaik the button could only be disabled via group policy atm, try follow the guide from the link in my previous reply above.

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        bnemec
        Brass Contributor
        Feb 14, 2023

        jateruy reg edits don't seem to be working to disable the discovery icon in Linux.  😉

         

        Like was stated in the other thread, this should be a user facing option/setting.  I typically don't like editing reg for something that should be a user setting.  Mostly because a new release of the app will render the reg edit irrelevant or in conflict and I forget to go back and remove he entry.  Also the policy is set by the company so it will likely reset with my next user session.  But, I tested it and it does remove the Discovery icon as promised.  For that I am grateful.

         

        https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#hubssidebarenabled

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    Antonio_Javier_Guerra
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 08, 2023
    Gracias por la información, sabes como poder abrir los favoritos de nuevo en nueva pestaña? gracias
  • DarkCoder's avatar
    DarkCoder
    Brass Contributor
    Feb 08, 2023
    Much appreciated. New design is literal crap. and how to disable that big B bing icon on the upper right. Any way to do that..?!
  • CrazyKats's avatar
    CrazyKats
    Iron Contributor
    Feb 07, 2023
    The rounded corners and the border are now gone. Thank you!

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