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josh_bodner
Silver Contributor
Jun 25, 2019

Dev channel update to 77.0.197.1 is live

Hello Insiders!  Today we released build 77.0.197.1 to the Microsoft Edge Dev channel.  We’ve got some new features, many of which you’ve seen over the past week in Canary and have been eagerly waiti...
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marek7001
Copper Contributor
Jun 27, 2019

josh_bodner 

New features and behavior: 

  • Changed the ability to pin a website to the desktop into the ability to pin a website to the taskbar.

 

Why? It was a great feature that distinguished IE and Edge ... No other browser has this ... Fix it, please.

 

Or "Pin to desktop" and "Pin to taskbar" ;)

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Drew1903
Silver Contributor
Jun 27, 2019

marek7001 

I will hasten to correct you. Edge does NOT have Pin to desktop nor does IE.  BUT, Both do & will Pin to taskbar, IE by dragging the URL logo, Edge by menu.  Both can drag a shortcut to the desktop... that is not pinning.  Nor are shortcuts needed or helping anything nor is desktop a collection basket.   Edge does have Pin to taskbar & Pin to start.  It took a while & enough voices, they dumped the Pin to desktop in Edge C, that wasn't supposed to be there, put Pin to taskbar that was supposed to be there and Pin to start is, still, missing. Nothing needs to be fixed, but, Pin to Start, still, needs to be added; seems some people want & use that.  On the other hand, there are a lot of Users who hardly ever go to Start.

The desktop is not a repository, anyway.  It's rather a moot point.  At least some things actually, bother to ask 1st, instead of forcing an icon onto the desktop, giving the End User a chance to say "No". Although, who cares, the few there are not showing, anyway, since going to them is rare, they can live in the Desktop toolbar, nicely out of sight.

Here's a snip of the Win10 Start menu...



Cheers,
Drew

  


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