Dev channel update to 86.0.615.3 is live

dung_h2 sorry, this actually is a setting in Settings... it's just missing due to a different bug that I wasn't aware of until today.  We've been working on re-arranging Settings to add a specific Security section (look in Canary for what it's supposed to be), but this build had an unfortunate conflict between that and the work to add the DNS setting.  It should be in the next Dev release.  

dung_h2 the way everyone refers to this can be confusing  but it's under "Flags," not "Settings."

• In the address bar, type edge://flags
• type "DNS" in the search field to display only the flags with "DNS" in the name
• find "Secure DNS lookups" and change it to "Enabled."
• click the Restart button at the bottom of the window to restart Edge.

unfortunately, I'm not sure if that actually works...   Firefox is showing that it uses DNS over HTTPS when I test it with sites such as https://1.1.1.1/help or https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/encrypted-sni/.  Edge still doesn't...

I tried adding the EnableAutoDoh key to the Registry and rebooting, but that didn't help. 

josh_bodner I tested it with new clean profile without any settings and extensions.

I found the cause of the problem. This is the setting:

'Show me suggestions from history, favorites and other data on this device using my typed characters'.

If you disable it, all requests in the address bar will be sent to the search engine. Even URLs with '/' at the end or without 'https'.

eguif 

'about:flags' is alias to edge://flags/