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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 waiting for in Dev. We’ve also fixed quite a few reliability and behavior issues, the most significant of which include:
New features and behavior:
- Added an option to show only the icon for individual favorites on the favorites bar.
- Added dark theme support for full page screens (Settings, History, etc.)
- Added more languages that you can display Microsoft Edge in.
- Added the ability to choose which categories of diagnostic data are sent with feedback.
- Changed the ability to pin a website to the desktop into the ability to pin a website to the taskbar.
- Separated the ability to import cards and payment info from certain browsers away from the option to import other autofill data like names and addresses.
Fixes for improved reliability:
- Fixed an issue where navigating to a website that’s saved as a favorite by typing its address into the address bar crashes the browser.
- Fixed an issue where opening the DevTools in an InPrivate window sometimes crashes the browser.
- Fixed an issue where selecting an item from the address bar dropdown sometimes crashes the browser.
- Fixed an issue where signing out of the browser sometimes crashes it.
- Fixed an issue where attempting to sign into the browser sometimes leaves it in a broken state.
- Fixed a crash when using Read Aloud.
- Fixed an issue where installation was sometimes failing.
Fixes for improved behavior:
- Fixed an issue where some favorites on the favorites bar spontaneously lost their text.
- Fixed an issue on Mac where videos on certain websites don’t cause the video controls to appear on the touch bar.
- Fixed an issue where searching from the address bar doesn’t work with certain search providers.
- Fixed an issue where certain context menu items were incorrectly appearing in some DevTools context menus.
- Fixed some strings that weren’t translated.
- Fixed an issue where the + button to open new tabs sometimes wasn’t the correct color.
- Improved drag and drop responsiveness on the Favorites page.
- Fixed some layout issues on the Extensions page when using certain localized builds.
For those of you who have been trying Microsoft Edge on Windows 7 or 8.1 over the past week, thank you! And of course, thanks to everybody for being an insider and sending us all of your great feedback and suggestions!
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- Fixed an issue where searching from the address bar doesn’t work with certain search providers.
Okay so this issue hasn't been fixed yet! Just wanted to let you guys know.
I'm using google as my default search engine and searching for anything in the title bar doesn't show results from google.
- Be aware that this dev build totally breaks screen reader support across the board in the browser chrome. Only web site content is fine. As soon as you try to go to the address bar, NVDA, JAWS, and probably Narrator, too, will totally get stuck. This is a problem in the dev, Canary, as well as Chrome Canary channels and has been there for way over a week without a fix, but with a bug report in the Chromium issue tracker. So if you're blind and have to use a screen reader, either hold off on updating to this build, or use a different browser until a fix is available.
josh_bodnerI noticed in PWA websites, the Web Push Notification server is still from google, what about the plan to switch push notification to microsoft server. Because in CHINA, the google is banned, and the Push Notification is breakdown.
When portuguese brazilian will be available on the ms edge insider?
josh_bodner So now that you PiecesOf8
josh_bodner wrote:New features and behavior:
- Changed the ability to pin a website to the desktop into the ability to pin a website to the taskbar.
Now that this "feature" has been introduced, how does one pin a website to the desktop? Being able to create a shortcut on the desktop was far more useful than being able to pin to the taskbar because the shortcut could be moved to different locations.
Why was the ability to pin a website to the desktop removed? Who asked for it to be removed?
PiecesOf8 while I was the one asking for an ability to pin the website to the taskbar, and I'm rather happy about its implementation (with one glitch yet -- the taskbar button is not protruding itself, when it's launched), but I didn't think it would be implemented in "Pin to Desktop" expense. I hope you guys will get it back with the next release. I hope both are going to be possible I the final version.
Mantvydas
Not likely to return; was not supposed to be there in the 1st place and they fixed their goof. It has never existed, not in our browsers nor from Start nor from an Applications window. And putting things all over the desktop has never been encouraged. It does, however, make good sense to, actually, pin things where they can, actually, be seen & easily accessed whilst working or doing things on that same desktop.
Cheers,
Drew
PiecesOf8 Yes, why shouldn't pinning to taskbar and desktop both be options? And Start menu, too. A user may want to pin a website to any of these three places, depending on his or her own usage or or workflow system. In sum, you Edge should let you pin a website or web app anywhere you can pin a Windows app.
JordanQ
Rt Clk on any app listed on Start & there is NO pin to desktop! And here's all the apps & there is no pin to desktop for any
Putting shortcuts for stuff all over a desktop is not pinning, it's creating (silly, unnecessary) shortcuts. Shortcuts are not pinning. Pinning is not creating shortcuts.
Cheers,
Drew
