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Former Employee

Aug 05, 2020

Dev channel update to 86.0.594.1 is live

Hello Insiders! Today we’re releasing build 86.0.594.2 to the Dev channel. Outside of the Dev channel, we’re excited to announce that Collections are now available for mobile users! See https://bl...

sdmmr

Brass Contributor

Aug 09, 2020

josh_bodner The HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE header captured from InPrivate mode of Edge Dev 86.0.594.1 returns Displayed Language, not Preferred Language. The same header of a normal browsing window returns correctly (Preferred Language). It has been happened since Edge 85 and affects localization of some websites (such as Wikipedia).

Eric_Lawrence

Microsoft

Aug 19, 2020

sdmmr The InPrivate Accept-Language behavior was inherited from upstream Chrome: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1077547. We're still discussing whether we should keep this behavior.

sdmmr
Brass Contributor
Aug 20, 2020
Eric_Lawrence Thanks for reporting! I understand the concern about privacy issue.
I think that users should be able to select which language(s) can be preferred in InPrivate mode. For example, Edge can add a "Allow in InPrivate" checkbox in "More actions …" next to a language, just like Extensions.