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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, check the blog post below.

 

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/02/07/reinventing-search-with-a-new-ai-powered-microsoft-bing-and-edge-your-copilot-for-the-web/

 

Thanks again for sending us feedback and helping us improve our Insider builds.

64 Replies

  • jateruy's avatar
    jateruy
    Iron Contributor

    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.

    • Davy49's avatar
      Davy49
      Iron Contributor
      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.
      • Antonio_Javier_Guerra's avatar
        Antonio_Javier_Guerra
        Copper Contributor
        Hola grupo, buenos días.Alguna flags para abrir favoritos en una nueva pestaña? muchas gracias.
    • bnemec's avatar
      bnemec
      Brass Contributor
      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

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

    • Antonio_Javier_Guerra's avatar
      Antonio_Javier_Guerra
      Copper Contributor
      Gracias por la información, sabes como poder abrir los favoritos de nuevo en nueva pestaña? gracias
  • timo47's avatar
    timo47
    Brass Contributor
    WTF is this? An unnecessary round border around the content, the tabs are a complete mess, and don't get me started on that non-removable Bing-button. I'm giving you guys 1 build to undo this mess and if not I'm done with Edge.
  • Ed Sparks's avatar
    Ed Sparks
    Iron Contributor
    What has happened to the Profile switching icon?

    In work scenarios we use this consantly!

    Please tell me this is a bug!
  • jateruy's avatar
    jateruy
    Iron Contributor
    Hey how do we disable this new floating web page style? I don't like to waste 20+ useful pixels all sides around for nothing. Thanks.
  • edspar's avatar
    edspar
    Brass Contributor
    I don't get it.
    Every day this things gets more cluttered, inconsistent and ridiculous.

    This floating page thick border style looks ridiculous and out of place, and you've now made the non-removable button evern worse! 😞
  • frandom's avatar
    frandom
    Brass Contributor

    You've made that incongruous button even worse and still not removable.  Rounded corners on the webpages itself is also a really questionable decision that should be optional.  If this is Edge's future then I may have to switch to something else.

    • pemory's avatar
      pemory
      Copper Contributor

      frandom           I don't understand all you people using a beta application threatening to leave merely because you don't like a new (experimental") feature. Relax, take a breath, and wait. It will all be different tomorrow. lol.

  • There appears to be an issue (macOS here) where when hovering on the Bing Copilot button the menu of buttons appears, like it did with Discover, but none of them do anything if clicked. The way to make it disappear is to go into Settings and turn the sidebar on and off - but this can also cause the application to crash.
  • Please make that gigantic button that doesn't match any of the other iconography optional, as well as the weird and flow-breaking thick window borders.

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