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josh_bodner
Microsoft
Apr 14, 2020Dev channel update to 83.0.478.5 is live
Hello insiders, today we’re releasing build 83.0.478.5 to the Dev channel. This is our Beta release candidate for major version 83, and since it’s also not that much newer than last week’s Dev chann...
przemoc
Apr 15, 2020Copper Contributor
josh_bodner& rest of Edge team, thank you for taking Chromium and trying to create better UX based on it. Collections are nice. I'm waiting for Vertical Tabs, which will be hopefully customizable enough, with at least 2 modes (favicon only, favicon + title), 2 placementes (left, right), and optional quick search box at the top for easily finding right tab.
Is there any shortcut for adding page to the collection?
Having something like Ctrl+D but for Collections would be super handy.
(Currently opened collection should be the default target for such action.)
Please consider improving address bar for narrowing search results. I really like what Firefox has there:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplete-firefox#w_changing-results-on-the-fly
I'm not saying Edge needs to copy all of it, but at least making starting with % to limit searching only to currently opened tabs would be extremely welcomed. I don't understand why Chromium doesn't have such crucial feature built-in. If you have many tabs, it's impossible to work with Chrom* w/o additional extensions like Session Buddy or Quick Tabs.
Microsoft Edge Add-ons is far from being usable and trustful, sadly. No homepages, no list of permissions that extension will ask for, no screenshots, no way to find all extensions coming from one publisher, no publisher pages, very poor search, and so on. It's bad, makes it too easy for fake/unofficial extensions to proliferate. Not everyone is tech-savvy, so can easily misinstall wrong extension, e.g. this fake Violentmonkey instead of legit Violentmonkey (see Edge addons listing legit? #893 @ violentmonkey/violentmonkey). BTW type "monkey" in search and none of mentioned extensions will be shown...
Sorry for ending on such a harsh not, but extensions are vital part of browsers, so making Edge better than Chrome won't be enough in the grand scheme of things, Edge Add-ons page will need to be better than Chrome Web Store too. But don't feel discouraged. The bar is not set high, as Chrome Web Store has quite bad UX to begin with IMHO, so making something better shouldn't be that hard.
Please continue your work for making browsing experience better. It's much appreciated!
josh_bodner
Microsoft
Apr 15, 2020przemoc I've been having a discussion with the extensions team recently about some of the issues you mentioned, so this is very helpful, especially the violent monkey example.