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Dev channel update to 91.0.838.3 is live
Nothing to return a usable expansion/overflow area for the toolbar again. The Extensions button may have other uses, but it is not this. One per line, all extensions listed including those already visible on the toolbar, only in alphabetical order, is just useless as a UI with 10 extensions on the toolbar and 17 more, a number of which I need to click on frequently. The Extensions button menu is just too clogged and cumbersome for extension USE. The old More menu toolbar extended area was great 6: extension buttons per line, spacing just as on the toolbar, NOT including those already visible, and able to be reordered,, it made use of many extensions quick and easy, unlike now. Back in the More menu, or a dropdown from a new tool overflow button, on/off options, whatever: I can't use Edge now like this.
It's so depressing, You had actually just fixed every issue I had with desktop Edge, making me able to use it, and the very next update you wrecked it by taking out what was to me a vital feature. I'm thinking you are committed to just this new extensions button now, and not keeping a to me usable toolbar overflow UI, so I'd best just recommit to an alternative browser.
And Android Edge .... you're doing nothing. Still chromium 77, FFS, and no sign of introducing either the built in darken websites from Chrome or the ability to use an extension like Dark Reader - and without that I can't use it at all. So I suppose it doesn't matter if you make desktop Edge unusable for me, as you apparently have no intention of making Android Edge usable - almost nothing's changed for over a year - and I'll only consider changing to a browser that works for me on both laptop and phone.
https://www.reddit.com/r/edge/comments/l5x30y/so_you_dont_like_the_new_flyout_menus_here_is_how/
Make sure to disable startup boost btw.
They haven't improved Edge in regards to touch and tablet so it's wishful thinking that you'll get them to move fast with Android Edge or Extension Button/Hub improvements. MS has never been known for being agile and good with rapid development - that's why they are losing marketshare.
- tomscharbachApr 01, 2021Bronze Contributor
azrael99 "MS has never been known for being agile and good with rapid development - that's why they are losing marketshare."
The global all-platform (desktop/mobile/tablet) market share has remained more or less static over the last year. Edge has gained market share (0.13% to 3.45%) as Edge Legacy (2.19% to 0.31%) and IE (1.63% to 0.81%) have been deprecated, but the combined Microsoft browser share has not materially changed (3.95% to 4.50%). It is a bit early to gauge market share trends for Edge.
Chromebooks https://www.geekwire.com/2021/chromebooks-outsold-macs-worldwide-2020-cutting-windows-market-share/ at the expense of Windows PC's during 2020, but that seems to be driven by distance learning demand during the COVID pandemic. Chromebooks have dominated the education market for several years and the pandemic increased demand in that market significantly during the past year.
- HotCakeXApr 01, 2021MVPSpoiler
azrael99 wrote:
They haven't improved Edge in regards to touch and tablet so it's wishful thinking that you'll get them to move fast with Android Edge or Extension Button/Hub improvements. MS has never been known for being agile and good with rapid development - that's why they are losing marketshare.that's not true.
if lack of those things was a factor in market share then Chrome would have 0% market share due to their awful UI in desktop with touch and mouse.