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Former Employee

Jan 08, 2020

Dev channel update to 81.0.381.0 is live

Welcome to the new year! Today we’re releasing build 81.0.381.0 to the Dev Channel, which as you can see is the first new build from major version 81. We haven’t been completely asleep during the h...

josh_bodner

Former Employee

Jan 11, 2020

reading view still exist but it requires extra effort since it is visible only in "Read aloud" mode. It would be nice to have it as icon in address bar (and or shortcut).

Ssh78 it does, but that functionality may still be hidden behind a flag for you. If you enable the edge://flags/#edge-reading-view flag, you should see an icon on the right side of the address bar to enter Reading View (now called Immersive Reader) when visiting eligible pages, just like in Edge Legacy:

Drew1903

Silver Contributor

Jan 11, 2020

josh_bodner Ssh78

Josh, the flag is no longer needed. It's just that not all sites offer RV & when it is not offered its icon is not there. (Only) If & when offered its icon WILL show @ the right end of the URL.

Cheers,
Drew

HotCakeX
MVP
Jan 11, 2020
Enable Text Highlights for PDF
Enables creation and modification of Text Highlights for PDF. – Mac, Windows

#edge-pdf-highlight
HotCakeX
MVP
Jan 11, 2020
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Drew1903 wrote:

It's just that not all sites offer RV & when it is not offered its icon is not there. (Only) If & when offered its icon WILL show @ the right end of the URL.
The button should be there as a fixed button. currently Immersive reader button only shows on 1% of websites, if it be a fixed button, user can use it on any website to get a clean text version to read.