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Edge Reader Mode says the browser is Chrome
Thanks for submitting feedback via Edge itself. We read all of those. I was about to log a bug on this because you're right! It's not good :-). But since you submitted feedback, I don't need to do that.
We have quite a number of tools that try to verify all of the strings in the product are correct. It's not at all clear to me how we missed this one. Which means, we probably missed more. If you see "Chrome" anywhere else, please submit additional feedback.
Thanks for submitting feedback via Edge itself. We read all of those. I was about to log a bug on this because you're right! It's not good :-). But since you submitted feedback, I don't need to do that.
We have quite a number of tools that try to verify all of the strings in the product are correct. It's not at all clear to me how we missed this one. Which means, we probably missed more. If you see "Chrome" anywhere else, please submit additional feedback.
On Android Edge, if you try to go to edge://edge-urls (or any edge://...) you get an error page. If you then tap in the address bar, e.g. because wanting to amend the URL to another edge:// page address like flags, rather oddly a panel opens showing edge://edge-urls/ in white, and below it chrome://chrome-urls/ in blue, and icons to either copy to clipboard or edit the URL. Clicking to edit puts chrome://chrome-urls/ into the address bar, while tapping copy to clipboard copies chrome://chrome-urls/ into the clipboard, not edge://edge-urls/ in either case. So one can't actually edit the edge://edge-urls/ to e.g. edge://flags/ - you have to type the full thing. It appears that Android Edge is really using the Chrome urls, just treating the Edge ones as aliases if they are typed in, but turning them into the chrome urls if you try to do anything like edit or copy.
I hope this will be amended before we get access to the edge:// urls. And I hope that at least in Canary we get access to them very soon.
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DavidGB wrote:On Android Edge, if you try to go to edge://edge-urls (or any edge://...) you get an error page. If you then tap in the address bar, e.g. because wanting to amend the URL to another edge:// page address like flags, rather oddly a panel opens showing edge://edge-urls/ in white, and below it chrome://chrome-urls/ in blue, and icons to either copy to clipboard or edit the URL. Clicking to edit puts chrome://chrome-urls/ into the address bar, while tapping copy to clipboard copies chrome://chrome-urls/ into the clipboard, not edge://edge-urls/ in either case. So one can't actually edit the edge://edge-urls/ to e.g. edge://flags/ - you have to type the full thing. It appears that Android Edge is really using the Chrome urls, just treating the Edge ones as aliases if they are typed in, but turning them into the chrome urls if you try to do anything like edit or copy.
I hope this will be amended before we get access to the edge:// urls. And I hope that at least in Canary we get access to them very soon.
and here is a screenshot of what you were referring to just in case
btw on Android Edge you can't access any Edge URLs like flags etc, i think they should fix that first
- that's not a bug, that's a feature
Thank you johnjansen for the direct reply. I really appreciate all the hard work that is going into making the new Edge a huge success! You are all doing great!!
