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It's not Edge if it doesn't have these features!
Please don't ship the new Edge out of beta without these features:
from most important to less in my opinion
1. Set Tabs Aside
2. Ask Cortana
3. Better Integration With native Windows 10 features (for example: native share dialoge, Acrylic material etc...)
4. The Shelf UI for bookmarks, history & downloads etc...
5. Add Notes (Inking)
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- Also just testing it out, please focus on design, design, design. User design and aesthetic. It needs to be beautiful. It doesn't matter how amazing it is in terms of features but if it feels old and/or dry then no one will use it.
- And an option to be able to switch tabs in Most-Recently-Used Order with Ctrl-Tab. Firefox has this option. And it's the native way that Alt-Tab works in Windows, as well as the standard way Ctrl-Tab works in Visual Studio, SQL Server management Studio, Notepad++, and virtually every other tabbed UI except Chrome. Which is why I don't use Chrome.
Set Tabs Aside is truly necessary!!!
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- Yeah, all these features are must have
Any timeline on the addition of inking and PDF annotation with Windows Ink support? This is the only feature why I stopped using Adobe Reader for PDF. No other app on the Microsoft Store comes close to smoothness of Inking PDFs in Edge
Cortana is just death :P exist in to little market compire to other would not have anything agains if Microsoft open up Windows as well and let other assistans to replace cortana totaly, so people can use like Google Assistans, Alexa, and other assistans. Cortana will never have a change now days.
But totaly agree with the ink function on number 5, its was great way to just take fast ink and send it forward, would also be great if they added support into settings for open up Window Share so man cold just share stuff direclty to one installed apps or email etc.Deleted
Respectfully, I disagree.
TL;DR - Some of these features would be better served as add-ins instead of native permanent browser fixtures.
Looking back at the long term development of the original Edge, the entire development centered around the idea of a clean, "no baggage" browser -- one that would drop all dependencies to IE as it existed and create something new and completely clean. They did start with that but deviated with some of the features you are asking about over time, and that has caused a bit of the bloat and some of the baggage that we now see. Web notes and tabs aside were two features that were added after the initial concept.
However, even in disagreement I see a workaround possible.
The problems that I had with the features that I really had issue with (set tabs aside, inking) was that there was no way to remove those features from the UI. Until 1809 there was no way at all to remove the oversized "Add a Web Note" or "Share this page" button from the UI. I never used either. Ever. Many people I questioned answered that they never used it either, or used that exact point as one of the primary reasons for hating the browser in the first place - a lack of customization.
In fact it wasn't until 1809 that I started using Edge as my primary browser, because primarily of the increased customization. It just FELT better.
So please, all I ask as a middle ground is if this is enabled at all it should be in the form of an addin that doesn't add to the baseline browser memory/compute footprint. Or if it absolutely must be added to the browser, let users who do not use these features be able to turn them off.
I never set tabs aside either, and understand that all of these things put together in Windows pre-1809 resulted in a heck of a lot of buttons that were always permanently on your screen. UI Complexity and non-modifiability is a real turn off for many... believe it or not, vanity is important in this application -- the browser is one of the most used and most viewed applications. I hear lots of goodwill about Edge/Chromium primarily because they're impressed their themes are also working from Chrome.
Would prefer "Set tabs aside" as an optional feature which can be toggled. There have been too many instances whereby multiple tabs were open and trying to switch to a particular tab at the front will accidentally click on the option to set tabs aside. Frustrating and irritating.
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