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josh_bodner
Microsoft
Mar 11, 2020Dev channel update to 82.0.446.0 is live
Hello Insiders, today we’re releasing build 82.0.446.0 to the Dev Channel. For this week’s most noteworthy new additions:
Added features:
- Added a capability to Guided Switch to ask to switch to a work or school profile when work or school content is being opened in a personal profile.
- Added better drag and drop support for Collections.
- Added support for more websites to properly add price and rating information to a product that’s been added to a Collection.
- Added support for the Native Window Occlusion management policy from upstream Chromium.
- Added the option to the Manage Search Engines management policy to allow search provider discovery.
- Added improved messaging to accounts that aren’t able to sync to explain why they can’t.
- Enabled the new Fluent designs for webpage controls like the calendar picker or dropdown on Mac.
Improved reliability:
- Fixed an issue on Mac where high CPU usage is seen when idle.
- Fixed an issue where showing the “Move to another window” menu sometimes causes a browser crash.
- Fixed an issue where clicking the “Add all tabs to a new collection” context menu option crashes the browser.
- Fixed a crash when closing the browser.
- Fixed a browser crash when syncing favorites.
- Fixed an issue where opening an Application Guard window sometimes crashes the browser.
- Fixed an issue where hitting the ESC key when typing in the Address Bar sometimes causes a browser crash.
- Fixed an issue where Netflix fails to play with error D7356 on certain devices.
- Fixed a crash when playing the surf game.
- Fixed an issue where dragging a tab with a PDF document out of a window and into its own window sometimes crashes the browser.
- Fixed a crash on launch for 32-bit Edge when Windows Information Protection is enabled.
- Fixed an issue where sync doesn’t work when certain VPN extensions are installed.
- Improved the reliability of updating after Edge hasn’t been updated for a while.
Changed behavior:
- Fixed one cause of audio being randomly muted.
- Fixed an issue where address bar history is sometimes not properly deleted when the browser is set to delete browsing data on close.
- Fixed an issue where using the favorites deduplication tool causes the option to show only the favicon to get reset for some favorites.
- Fixed an issue where dialogs that are opened from IE mode tabs appear behind the window.
- Fixed an issue where clicking the Taskbar icon for a window that has a dialog open in an IE mode tab doesn’t also bring the dialog to the forefront.
- Fixed an issue where languages in Settings can’t be selected to “Offer to translate pages in this language”.
- Fixed an issue where expected popups on certain websites don’t work when Tracking Prevention is enabled.
- Fixed an issue where the keyboard shortcut to reset the zoom level to 100% doesn’t work in Immersive Reader.
- Fixed an issue where clicking shortcuts on the Taskbar to PWAs sometimes launches a regular Edge window instead of a PWA window.
- Fixed an issue where very small ink strokes/dots drawn on PDFs can’t be erased.
- Fixed an issue where very small ink strokes or dots sometimes aren’t properly drawn on PDFs.
- Fixed an issue where users can’t save payment cards locally because the option to do so is missing.
- Fixed an issue where internal pages like Extensions or Favorites sometimes can’t be scrolled.
- Fixed an issue where PDF files aren’t opened in an external application when the setting to do so is enabled.
- Fixed an issue where DirectInvoke doesn’t work when SmartScreen is disabled.
- Fixed an issue where a message saying you’re required to sign in using a work or school account sometimes appears even when you already are.
- Fixed an issue where some products that are added to a Collection don’t have the proper number of ratings.
- Fixed an issue where windows opened via Guided Switch sometimes don’t have any UI (tabs, address bar, etc.)
- Reduced the number of times you need to sign into a website after it’s been moved to another profile via Guided Switch.
- Reduced the number of prompts to save a password when the field being saved is a CVV for a payment card.
- Reduced the number of times an item in a Collection has no image associated with it.
- Improved the first-launch experience of Application Guard after taking an OS upgrade.
- Improved messaging on ARM64 to explain why Flash isn’t available on that platform.
- Improved the color of the title bar for PWAs.
- Removed the ability to add all tabs from an InPrivate or Guest window to a Collection.
- Removed support for the Share feature on versions of Windows prior to Windows 10.
Known issues:
- Some users are seeing favorites get duplicated after we made some fixes in that area last month. The most common way this is triggered is by installing a new channel of Edge or installing Edge on another device and then signing into it with an account that has already signed into Edge before. Fixing this should be easier now that the deduplicator tool is available. However, we’ve also seen duplication happen when running the deduplicator on multiple machines before either machine has a chance to fully sync its changes, so while we work on fixing this, make sure to only run the deduplicator on one machine at a time.
- Users of certain security software packages will see all tabs fail to load with the error STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION. The only supported way to prevent this behavior is to uninstall that software. We’re currently engaging with the developers of that software to test a potential fix, which we hope to bring to Dev and Canary soon.
- After an initial fix for it recently, some users are still experiencing Edge windows becoming all black. UI popups like menus are not affected and opening the Browser Task Manager (keyboard shortcut is shift + esc) and killing the GPU process usually fixes it. Note that this only appears to affect users with certain hardware.
- There are some issues where users with multiple audio output devices sometimes don’t get any sound from Edge. In one case, Edge becomes muted in the Windows Volume Mixer and unmuting it fixes it. In another, restarting the browser fixes it.
- At certain zoom levels, there is a noticeable line between the browser UI and the web contents.
As always, we appreciate all your suggestions and your help finding bugs!
- Tom_FoxIron Contributor
I see the Family Safely menu was recently enabled, which is great for home users but not necessary in Enterprises. Will there be a policy to hide it? The Policy help page hasn't been updated since the 6th.
- lunarsoundBrass Contributor
josh_bodner welp, my previous post was classified as spam and removed so reposting a tl;dr version without any links.
There's a weird issue with how Edge interacts with mpv player on Windows. It's impossible to download a media file that is associated with mpv player using Edge. For example a webm file associated (open with) with mpv. Either nothing will happen when you try to save it in Edge (no Save window popup) or Edge will offer to Open a file (in mpv) instead of showing "Save" window.
Easy way to reproduce is try to download a webm with Edge when webm isn't associated with any player, and do the same after assigning webm format to open with mpv.
This doesn't happen with Chromium or Firefox, only new Edge.
- josh_bodner
Microsoft
lunarsound which channel of Edge do you see this in? And if you change your setting to ask before saving a file, does it help?
- lunarsoundBrass Contributor
josh_bodner Changing "ask before save" has no effect on this and it happens on all channels: Canary, Dev and Beta.
Mpv on Windows integrates into OS via mpv-install.bat that comes with the player so it might be due to some weird registry paths mpv adds. But since other browsers, including vanilla Chromium, have no such issue and work fine, this leads me to believe that this is mainly an Edge issue.
- lunarsoundBrass Contributor
josh_bodner Please fix Edge interaction with MPV player.
Problem:
If a file extension associated with mpv player, it becomes impossible to download such file with Edge. Either nothing is happening when pressing "Save As" or trying to download the file using "Download" function of the native Edge media player, or Edge offers to Open the file in mpv instead of offering to save it.
Steps to repro:Try downloading a random webm file with Edge - there shouldn't be any issues. Doesn't have to be webm, just a media file associated with mpv.
Now "install" mpv from the link below using a bat file, associate webm with mpv and try to download the same webm again - either nothing is happening or Edge offers to Open this file in mpv player.
MPV player in quiestion: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpv-player-windows/
Integrated in OS via mpv-install.bat that comes with the player in mpv/installer folder (since the player is portable), here's full contents of this bat: https://pastebin.com/CtkxRPyT
I know mpv isn't a popular Windows player but I don't have such issues saving files with vanilla Chromium or Firefox, so this leads me to believe this is an Edge issue and not mpv.
I've attached an example of the Open dialogue that pops up when I press "Save As".
- Aying1224Copper Contributor
I lost all my passwords saved on New Edge after setting Windows User(not Network Account) password and restarting my computer. I had no User password before using New Edge.New Edge Version: beta 81.0.416.31
Sorry, maybe I should not report that here.
But it is kind of difficulty to get in touch with you guys from China.
It is too slow to visit this Community and all websites of Microsoft. 😞
I did Send Report on browser by the way.
Thank you.
This is awesome, regarding “Add all tabs to a new collection” context menu option
- MapantzIron Contributor
josh_bodner Posted in the wrong place before.
There's a scrollbar issue. I whizz my cursor over to the scrollbar to drag down the page, and it doesn't move, even though it is highlighted.
- Dino_ZumaIron Contributor
Thanks for all your hard work on Edge and EdgeDev.
Under Known Issues, I am still having sync problems with Favorites as described below, despite following your advice:
- Some users are seeing favorites get duplicated after we made some fixes in that area last month. The most common way this is triggered is by installing a new channel of Edge or installing Edge on another device and then signing into it with an account that has already signed into Edge before. Fixing this should be easier now that the deduplicator tool is available. However, we’ve also seen duplication happen when running the deduplicator on multiple machines before either machine has a chance to fully sync its changes, so while we work on fixing this, make sure to only run the deduplicator on one machine at a time.
Since this week's update, the deduplicator tool is now running terribly slow. Instead of taking a few to about 30 seconds to deduplicate favorites in EdgeDev, it takes as much as 5 minutes or more to run. Then, eventually, the symptoms re-appear on all devices running EdgeDev.
Also, after installing the stable version of Edge on my devices I keep getting hundreds if not thousands of duplicate favorites in the stable version of Edge. I uninstalled and then re-installed stable Edge, but the duplicate entries re-appeared.
Syncing favorites is still a massive problem for me. Any additional advice or a fix for these problems would be appreciated.
Thank you.
PS I have also submitted this problem through the Feedback Hub link in EdgeDev, along with a screenshot.
- Spoiler
Dino_Zuma wrote:Thanks for all your hard work on Edge and EdgeDev.
Under Known Issues, I am still having sync problems with Favorites as described below, despite following your advice:
- Some users are seeing favorites get duplicated after we made some fixes in that area last month. The most common way this is triggered is by installing a new channel of Edge or installing Edge on another device and then signing into it with an account that has already signed into Edge before. Fixing this should be easier now that the deduplicator tool is available. However, we’ve also seen duplication happen when running the deduplicator on multiple machines before either machine has a chance to fully sync its changes, so while we work on fixing this, make sure to only run the deduplicator on one machine at a time.
Since this week's update, the deduplicator tool is now running terribly slow. Instead of taking a few to about 30 seconds to deduplicate favorites in EdgeDev, it takes as much as 5 minutes or more to run. Then, eventually, the symptoms re-appear on all devices running EdgeDev.
Also, after installing the stable version of Edge on my devices I keep getting hundreds if not thousands of duplicate favorites in the stable version of Edge. I uninstalled and then re-installed stable Edge, but the duplicate entries re-appeared.
Syncing favorites is still a massive problem for me. Any additional advice or a fix for these problems would be appreciated.
Thank you.
PS I have also submitted this problem through the Feedback Hub link in EdgeDev, along with a screenshot.
They explained here that not to use Stable and Beta channels with Dev/Canary.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/top-feedback-summary-for-march-4/m-p/1209808
"As mentioned last week, we have an update to the Favorites sync issue. This is now resolved in Dev and Canary builds, which means it means the criteria for us to mark it as Addressed in this list. However, if you are using the Beta or Stable builds and syncing your favorites through those to Dev or Canary, there is a chance you will continue to see the issues listed. This is expected until the fix is pushed through to those builds. If you are experiencing favorites syncing issues in Dev and Canary and are not using a Beta or Stable build, please submit feedback through the browser so the team can investigate. Thanks so much to everyone who provided feedback around this so that the team could fully investigate and address these syncing issues!"
- RobWuijsterIron Contributor
HotCakeX
I'm running only Dev versions on all my pc's & tablets, but the favorites syncing issues are getting out of hand.
I get doubles all the time, even after cleaning them up. It seems the cleanup isn't synced back into the cloud.
And yes, after an upgrade of the Dev channel, the dupes are aback straight away. Already logged this.
It's annoying, and I'm for sure not mixing several builds of Edge atm...
cheers!
- JordanQSteel Contributor
josh_bodner "Fixed an issue where clicking the 'Add all tabs to a new collection' context menu option crashes the browser. " Hey, cool, I didn't even know that was a context menu option at all. That pretty much brings over the behavior from the old Set Tabs Aside feature, as I was hoping. Awesome
JordanQ wrote:josh_bodner "Fixed an issue where clicking the 'Add all tabs to a new collection' context menu option crashes the browser. " Hey, cool, I didn't even know that was a context menu option at all. That pretty much brings over the behavior from the old Set Tabs Aside feature, as I was hoping. Awesome
And where is this option exactly that we can't find?
Where is this option? a controlled feature rollout?
"Add all tabs to a new collection” context menu option
- joshcsmith13Copper Contributor
Whoa!!! I can almost use my Surface Pen now... Did you change something and not highlight it? It seems that there is a lag/delay between tapping in a text box and the handwriting input panel popping up, but it usually does! If not, double-tapping occasionally does the trick. (Is that by design?) It feels rough, but it's a start!