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soumitra2102
Brass Contributor
Jul 31, 2019

Ink Support, Web notes and Sharing on Chromium Edge

I was able to use my Surface pen to annotate webpages, pdf files, etc. on Microsoft Edge Please bring the functionality on Chromium Edge as well. Also, the sharing with OneNote, Nearby Sharing, and...
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V-FRROME
Former Employee
Aug 06, 2019

soumitra2102 

 

We appreciate your feedback, and these features are being seriously considered.

 

Thanks again for your feedback, and feature request,

Frank

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gakushi_stily
Copper Contributor
Feb 03, 2020

V-FRROME  After 27 years on various models of Thinkpad, I found Surface Laptop 3 at a local store two days ago and made the leap which I thought would never happen.  It's been a long time since I bought anything related to PC the day I found it.  That day, I used Edge for the first time, and found out about the add notes function, which would've been just perfect for my work..  I'd been pasting cropped images onto PowerPoint, which is just unbelievably analogue.  And then, as I was running updates for Windows and Office, I had no idea that this functionality is gone in the latest Chromium-based version of Edge, and now the pre-installed Edge is gone..  What a disappointment, I was really looking forward to try out the touch display which seems to work pretty well on Laptop 3.

  • HotCakeX's avatar
    HotCakeX
    MVP
    Feb 03, 2020
    So you received the new Edge (version 79) automatically from Windows update?
    could you mention which Windows 10 version were you using?

    also you can uninstall it from control panel or Settings app, restart your device and you should be able to use the legacy Edge again.

    then use blocker toolkit to prevent further installation retries
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-au/deployedge/microsoft-edge-blocker-toolkit
    • gakushi_stily's avatar
      gakushi_stily
      Copper Contributor
      Feb 06, 2020

      Hi, I did manually update Edge to 79.0.309.71 by downloading it, not through Windows update.  I'm on Win10.0.18362 Build 18362.  Would you be kind enough to point me to your post which describes how to have both pre-Chromium and Chromium Edge, which SafariLarry mentioned ?   (went through your posts but couldn't find it..) 

       

      I also noticed your former post on the two forums on legacy Edge and Chromium Edge.  Hope mine wasn't too out of line.  Thank you so much !

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        HotCakeX
        MVP
        Feb 06, 2020

        gakushi_stily 

        Spoiler
        gakushi_stily wrote:

        Hi, I did manually update Edge to 79.0.309.71 by downloading it, not through Windows update.  I'm on Win10.0.18362 Build 18362.  Would you be kind enough to point me to your post which describes how to have both pre-Chromium and Chromium Edge, which SafariLarry mentioned ?   (went through your posts but couldn't find it..) 

         

        I also noticed your former post on the two forums on legacy Edge and Chromium Edge.  Hope mine wasn't too out of line.  Thank you so much !

        Hi, of course, no problem 🙂

        All of the information you need are in this Microsoft document:

        https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-sysupdate-access-old-edge#how-to-enable-a-side-by-side-experience-with-both-versions-of-microsoft-edge

         

         

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      SafariLarry
      Copper Contributor
      Feb 03, 2020

      You can also have both versions installed, which I'm doing on my Surface Pro 4 with Win 10 Pro.  HotCakeX previously gave instructions on how to do that.  Those instructions didn't work for me but I found a registry change that allowed me to do it.  Chromium Edge is not ready for prime time in my opinion -- and it would be surprising if it was automatically installed. The current stable version does not have all features implemented.  But it is stable and works well for me.  When it doesn't have the features I need (e.g., pen support), I use the legacy (old) version.

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