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Enable sharing a webpage via Windows' default mail app (e.g. Outlook desktop app)
Edge currently only supports sharing a webpage via the Windows Mail app.
The Share-button in Edge does not allow sharing a webpage via Windows' default mail client app.
(For example: Microsoft Outlook desktop version).
Please enable sharing webpages to Windows' default mail client app?
There are various 3rd party extensions which do this, so it must be possible to build this into the browser, I would assume.
The latest build of Edge (Canary) now supports what I requested, see screenshot below.
Thanks Microsoft.
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The latest build of Edge (Canary) now supports what I requested, see screenshot below.
Thanks Microsoft.
- Thanks for this reassurance although I am still surprised that Microsoft has taken so long to get a grip of this!
I am using Dev so I now wait to see how long before I see the change.
Paul_VC
It's now July 2021 and trying to share a web page in Edge still only offers the Mail app.
What is it going to take to allow Outlook to be on the list - it is a major component of Office 365 in case that has been overlooked!!!
One of the possibilities is my Recipe Keeper app which shows to me that whoever is in charge of this element of Edge doesn't fully comprehend what users need.- Hi,
this is something the Outlook team need to do, not Edge team.
Edge browser simply uses the Share functionality that Windows provided to it and Windows lists apps in the Share whose developers enabled this for those apps.
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2017/12/04/extend-desktop-application-windows-10-features-using-new-visual-studio-application-packaging-project/
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/app-to-app/share-data- Microsoft has responsibility for both Outlook and Edge so given that this is July 2021 somebody should have sorted it by now.
- Thanks for this insight. I will add also this to the Outlook UserVoice, as you suggested.
I would suggest though that the Edge-team could talk to their colleagues "down the hallway" about this, as it would also benefit the user experience in Edge. Do you agree?
