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Dev channel update to 90.0.789.1 is live
Hello Insiders! Today we’re releasing build 90.0.789.1 to the Dev channel. Before we get into the changes, we wanted to make sure you knew about the latest status of our password management feature...
josh_bodner
Clicking to restart after updating Dev gave me a BSOD computer crash, which is very rare for me with Windows 10: thanks for that.
After trying out the new download UI this last week, unlike the old one it is .... acceptable. (Not as good as it could be, though. In Firefox, clicking on a download link causes the open/save dialogue to open right under the pointer, wherever that happens to be, rather than having to hike over to the top right every time; and Firefox has a section in the settings for 'Files and applications' where one can see all the filetypes that have ever been downloaded, what action is currently set for that filetype, and a dropdown menu for each filetype where one can the currently set action and change the action to any out of always ask (default), always save, open in browser, open in Windows default app for the filetype, open in specified other app, as applicable to the filetype ... which is much clearer and more useable than the current state in Edge.) And now that the downloading UI is acceptable again, that moves desktop Edge back ahead of desktop Google Chrome again for me.
BUT I require desktop and Android browsers that sync. And while desktop Edge is, for me, acceptable and better than desktop Chrome, ANDROID Edge is still completely useless, with development non-existent over the whole last year in the areas that matter to me. There's quite a few issues that cumulatively weight against it (and it's STILL reporting itself as Chromium 77, when Android Google Chrome and Firefox are both the same versions as their desktop big brothers - what are your Android Edge devs playing at?); but a single issue that alone makes it completely unusable to me is that it STLL doesn't have an equivalent of Android Chrome's darken-websites-checkbox-in-themes-setting or (much better as it will remember per site settings) Android Firefox's ability to use the Dark Reader extension (one of the 6 extensions they considered vital before the first standard build release). I have become very sensitive to bright screens over the last two years and I simply CANNOT browse with Android Edge because of all the sites I want to browse to that have bright white backgrounds. (Oh, and Android Edge Beta has a grand total of ONE flag available, whereas Chrome Beta has over THREE HUNDRED.)
So, while I consider Android Google Chrome to be scruffy and rather chaotic with very indifferent performance, I still can at least use it if I have to. I just cannot use Android Edge at all. So I remain where I was, browsing with Firefox, on my laptop and on my phone, with Google Chrome as the rather unpleasant but at least useable backup on the odd occasion I need a Chromium based browser. And it will stay like that UNLESS you pull your fingers out and make Android Edge at least minimally useable. Get Android Edge AT LEAST with some darken website ability and Edge will move above Google Chrome for me, and might end up supplanting the Firefoxes as my browsers of choice. If you go on and on neglecting Android Edge, desktop Edge remains a pretty but useless toy. Desktop and Android versions stand and fall together.
These days a lot of people start with what they use on their phone to then choose what they use on desktop/laptop, NOT the other way round. You are really handicapping desktop Edge adoption with the pathetic state of Android Edge. (Of course if you made desktop Android able to sync with Android Firefox ...)
Clicking to restart after updating Dev gave me a BSOD computer crash, which is very rare for me with Windows 10: thanks for that.
After trying out the new download UI this last week, unlike the old one it is .... acceptable. (Not as good as it could be, though. In Firefox, clicking on a download link causes the open/save dialogue to open right under the pointer, wherever that happens to be, rather than having to hike over to the top right every time; and Firefox has a section in the settings for 'Files and applications' where one can see all the filetypes that have ever been downloaded, what action is currently set for that filetype, and a dropdown menu for each filetype where one can the currently set action and change the action to any out of always ask (default), always save, open in browser, open in Windows default app for the filetype, open in specified other app, as applicable to the filetype ... which is much clearer and more useable than the current state in Edge.) And now that the downloading UI is acceptable again, that moves desktop Edge back ahead of desktop Google Chrome again for me.
BUT I require desktop and Android browsers that sync. And while desktop Edge is, for me, acceptable and better than desktop Chrome, ANDROID Edge is still completely useless, with development non-existent over the whole last year in the areas that matter to me. There's quite a few issues that cumulatively weight against it (and it's STILL reporting itself as Chromium 77, when Android Google Chrome and Firefox are both the same versions as their desktop big brothers - what are your Android Edge devs playing at?); but a single issue that alone makes it completely unusable to me is that it STLL doesn't have an equivalent of Android Chrome's darken-websites-checkbox-in-themes-setting or (much better as it will remember per site settings) Android Firefox's ability to use the Dark Reader extension (one of the 6 extensions they considered vital before the first standard build release). I have become very sensitive to bright screens over the last two years and I simply CANNOT browse with Android Edge because of all the sites I want to browse to that have bright white backgrounds. (Oh, and Android Edge Beta has a grand total of ONE flag available, whereas Chrome Beta has over THREE HUNDRED.)
So, while I consider Android Google Chrome to be scruffy and rather chaotic with very indifferent performance, I still can at least use it if I have to. I just cannot use Android Edge at all. So I remain where I was, browsing with Firefox, on my laptop and on my phone, with Google Chrome as the rather unpleasant but at least useable backup on the odd occasion I need a Chromium based browser. And it will stay like that UNLESS you pull your fingers out and make Android Edge at least minimally useable. Get Android Edge AT LEAST with some darken website ability and Edge will move above Google Chrome for me, and might end up supplanting the Firefoxes as my browsers of choice. If you go on and on neglecting Android Edge, desktop Edge remains a pretty but useless toy. Desktop and Android versions stand and fall together.
These days a lot of people start with what they use on their phone to then choose what they use on desktop/laptop, NOT the other way round. You are really handicapping desktop Edge adoption with the pathetic state of Android Edge. (Of course if you made desktop Android able to sync with Android Firefox ...)