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josh_bodner
Microsoft
MicrosoftDev channel update to 79.0.279.0 is live
Hello insiders, today we’re releasing build 79.0.279.0 to the Dev Channel! It’s another small change list this week as we begin our work on major version 79. Some of the most noteworthy changes include:
New Features:
- Enabled the static certificate pinning feature that was originally available in Chrome.
- Added a keyboard shortcut to mute tabs on Mac.
- Added support for hyphenated words when performing single-word intranet searches.
Increased Stability:
- Fixed an issue where watching DRM video like Netflix causes some devices to freeze.
- Fixed an issue where webpages sometimes crash when watching certain videos.
- Fixed a crash when using Read Aloud.
- Fixed an issue where using ctrl+F to find something on a webpage while certain things on the page are highlighted leads to a crash.
- Fixed some issues with Application Guard sessions not starting.
- Fixed an issue where navigation in Application Guard windows doesn’t work.
Improved Behavior:
- Fixed an issue where context menus sometimes don’t show all contents properly.
- Fixed an issue where the autosuggest popup appears on fields where it shouldn’t.
- Fixed an issue where a collection that’s deleted in one browser window isn’t immediately deleted from other browser windows.
- Fixed an issue where the translation popup didn’t have a button to close it.
- Fixed some issues when adding or deleting words in the spellcheck dictionary.
- Fixed an issue where using the keyboard shortcut to open the downloads page on an IE mode tab opens Edge’s downloads, not IE’s.
- Fixed an issue where opening the downloads page on an IE mode tab sometimes doesn’t open it in the foreground.
- Fixed an issue where installing IE mode sites as apps doesn’t properly show the site’s icon.
- Fixed an issue where the new tab button is invisible on Windows 7 if the Aero theme is used.
- Fixed an issue where the loading spinner shows up unexpectedly on items in collections.
As always, we appreciate all of your suggestions and feedback!
279 seems to have broken a couple of websites, namely Twitter and Gitbook. They still work on original Edge and Chrome so it's not a problem with my PC.
however on 279, there is now no content, just the spinny wheel or blank screen.
Scrolling is definitely an issue. One scroll of the mouse wheel makes huge jump on the page. This is also the case even after adjusting the scroll settings.
Are you using the smooth scrolling flag or the default scrolling. If not, enable smooth scrolling and see if that fixes the problem.
I was looking forward to this new feature, however the media autoplay setting is missing in my site permission settings josh_bodner
josh_bodner How long do updates take to propagate? I'm a MacOS user and every time I check for updates after a new build is out, it says that it's up to date. I don't recall Edge Dev ever successfully updating itself on its own. Almost a week after the new build is announced, I end up manually downloading the installer and installing Edge again.
josh_bodner Have just tried this Dev version on my Surface Go and it just crashes out. Open Edge Dev, it stays there for about 20 seconds then closes itself every time. Have checked everything else is up-to-date and rebooted, but same result. Perhaps an issue with Windows 10 in S mode which the Surface Go uses?
Feature Request: This feature request is highly needed for the Public Sector for Federal Agencies, which is the ability to digitally sign a pdf in Edge with a Smart Card. If the function was added to digitally sign a PDF with a Smart Card, many federal agencies wouldn't have to depend on the 3rd party application Adobe Reader for this one specific function and could fully leverage Edge for PDFs instead. @David Rubino @josh_bodner
Still no mention of having (as an option, if necessary) middle-click (touchpad three-fingered tap) on a favorite leaving the favorites menu open. Can't use this (or any other) browser that does not have this, so only open each new Edge Canary and Dev build once simply to test if this has been included.
josh_bodner I think these forums might be a little funky, too. Having this thread + Settings + "Welcome back!" triggered high CPU usage on this latest 79.0.279.0 dev build...completely out of the blue.
Closing the forum tab did nothing for ~30 seconds and then the CPU usage dropped back down to normal.
Screenshots taken ~30 seconds apart, reverse order:
21.8% CPU usage (two tabs)
Forum page definitely...broken
21.6% CPU usage
40.5% CPU usage
40.8% CPU usage
49.8% CPU usage
It'd been at 80% usage before I heard the fans finally whir up. A weird bug.; hopefully a one-off!
Version 79.0.279.0 (Official build) dev (64-bit)Windows 10 Pro x64 1803 (17134.1006)i5-8600K / 32 GB DDR4 / Samsung 960 EVO 250 GB- I am enjoying the collections feature. It's very handy for temporarily stashing things to come back to or things related to a current research topic. It might be handy to be able to control the initial "Collections" view -- full, titles only, titles and note only.
josh_bodner Still hoping you guys can fix the Escape key problem on Mac 😉
