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TallTomD
Feb 22, 2022Brass Contributor
Edge Transparent Menus
The new transparent menus in Edge are not usable. When I right click on something I can see the transparent menu appear, but I cannot read any of the text on the menu. I have no idea what the selec...
- Mar 06, 2022I was going nuts on this one as well. It must not look as bad for some people. I could not read the text at all with it on. I found a solution to turn the new feature off. Go to edge://flags and look for a setting called "Enable Windows 11 Acrylic effect in menus" change the setting to Disable and you should be good to go. I have not noticed if "Enable Windows 11 Mica effect in title bars" is causing any issues or not.
TallTomD
Mar 10, 2022Brass Contributor
Tidester Well, that resolve it for some menus, but the problem remains on other menus like the download menu and this one:
No idea what that dialogue box says. No idea where to click. My browser is locked until I click something that I cannot see.
Nice!!! It's a feature.
TallTomD
Mar 10, 2022Brass Contributor
Resolved it by changing the "Choose ANGLE graphics backend" to D3D11on12
- Janto4JMar 11, 2022Copper ContributorThanks, I have the same problem on EDGE version 99.0.1150.3 and I have resolved with this option "Choose ANGLE graphics backend" to D3D11on12 and setting disabled on "Enable Windows 11 Acrylic effect in menus"
- tecnodjMar 12, 2022Copper Contributor
I have the same problem on EDGE version 99.0.1150.3 and I have resolved with this option "Choose ANGLE graphics backend" to D3D11on12 only.
- TallTomDMar 16, 2022Brass ContributorIt is SUPER HANDY that Microsoft resets these settings back to their default whenever they update the Edge browser! Then you need to go in and set them to the above configuration to see your menus again.