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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 14, 2020

ikjadoon as you and others have noticed, we've got quite a few issues with the behavior of installing websites and pinning them via the Windows context menu. The installation problem is something we inherited from upstream Chromium, so we'll also get the fix from them. Also as you've noticed, it only affects certain websites.

The pinning behavior is something that I personally experienced recently since I've been setting up a new machine over this past week, so we've already got a bug filed for that. I'm using a Windows Insider build though (19041), so to everybody who's seen the shortcut either not launch Edge correctly or not have the right icon after using the Windows context menu to pin it, which version of Windows are you using? Since it's possible there are multiple causes to these issues, it would be helpful to try to narrow down where it happens as much as we can.

HotCakeX

MVP

Jan 15, 2020

josh_bodner

What would be the explanation and reason that I can't reproduce this pinning problem on a fresh Windows 10 installation be? I'm also running Windows 10 insider but fast ring build 19541

here are my reproducing steps on both Canary and Dev channels:

https://streamable.com/afsij

https://streamable.com/8m9so

https://streamable.com/uscza

josh_bodner
Former Employee
Jan 15, 2020
HotCakeX ikjadoon I guess I forgot to actually say why I was interested in knowing if you were seeing any buggy pinning behavior in Windows Insider builds! The issue is with Windows, not Edge, and we made a fix in all Windows Insider builds 19xxx and higher. That fix hasn't had a chance to be ported back to non-Insider Windows yet (18363 and lower), so it's not surprising if people are still seeing it there, but if you're seeing it on Windows versions that do have the fix, then it means the fix wasn't sufficient.

Also Drew, 19041 is the current Insider Slow build, which is due to be released this year. 195zz is the Insider Fast Windows, which is what used to be called Skip Ahead and is what will be released either later this year or next year. Both rings should have the pinning fix.
- Drew1903
  Silver Contributor
  Jan 15, 2020
  josh_bodner
  
  Hi Josh,
  
  That was my other thought, that maybe it was Slow which, I didn't expect you to be using; just happened to be one digit difference, at the moment. I have never done anything, but, Fast or Skip Ahead since, day 1 (way before 10 was released). But, anyway, as I said, it IS happening on the Insider Build, at least, it is with 19541.
  
  Cheers,
  Drew
  - HotCakeX
    MVP
    Jan 15, 2020
    Download the new slow ring update
    Build 19041.21
    https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2020/01/14/releasing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-19041-21-to-the-slow-ring/
- HotCakeX
  MVP
  Jan 15, 2020
  Oh thanks for extra info, now I understand why I wasn't seeing that problem