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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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- Add tab previews, epub, pdf, OneNote features that were built in to UWP. And yes, epub, even without the books store, because it's the only native epub reader windows has and it works way better than anything else in the Microsoft Store.
rsfarrisStrongly agree, especially on the epub support. I realize that may not be possible since that support was built into EdgeHTML, but at least consider spinning it off into a dedicated app. There's decent efforts at epub readers in the Store, but none have the consistent quality and proper formatting that Edge did.
Don't forget the little tab previews!
19lmyers I hate this so called feature 'preview tabs' the most.
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I would add proper implementation of fluent UI. Currently it is just chrome with a few bits on that don't really do much!
- no the current microsoft edge doesnt have cortana on it.
Deleted I couldn't agree more. I started using Edge as my daily browser as soon as it was released on Windows 10 and even prefer it on iOS to Safari. The main reason I used Edge is because it is a smarter, more well organized browser than Chrome. The current build is just chrome with a new name. I think it will need to be stated over and over again that we still want Edge and not another Chrome. Great start!
rjansen85 Indeed, when I heard about Edge moving to Chromium engine, I thought that's all it was going to be, the rendering engine. This appears to be just a fork of the whole Chromium project with an Edge rebrand. Sure the syncing stuff for the MS ecosystem is great (why I like Edge on android, even though it's Chrome really), but a major reason I stopped using Chrome was the whole application itself became so bloated with a lot of background processes and poor performance, especially on launch and on lower spec systems. Edge also integrates well into Windows and especially in tablet mode whereas Chrome had problems and isn't a UWP app. Early days Chrome had terrible touch support unlike Edge.
That said, Edge is also becoming bloated, at least in background processes. Though I notice it's using suspended processes and not sure Chromium does.As a side thought, does the Chromium rendering engine replace or become available to our UWP apps currently using Edge engine? Similarly, can we use the new Edge as a UWP Kiosk app, given it's not UWP?
tjmoore To be fair though, just playing around with it, Edge Chromium has around 6 processes and taking 100MB, old Edge is sat there with 21 processes and 300MB, just on Google home page.
Also, running up on the tablet (Dell Venue 11 Pro, which is a slow Quad Atom Baytrail 32bit system, though decent enough for basics), and it's a lot more responsive than Chrome used to be. Haven't used Chrome on touch in a long time and looks like it's better now and also smooth scrolling seems to be working okay now. That was another thing Edge was so much better at. Some niggles though with the page not shuffling up on an input field when the touch keyboard appears which means can't see the next options below or a submit button without closing the keyboard.
Looks okay. Lacks a dark mode or adoption of the dark theme setting in Windows, but just a niggle.
A bonus is it's possible to install web sites like Facebook as an app (given the severe lack of updates to the terrible FB app in the store). Although FB seems very slow when using the links off the notifications button. Launches FB quicker than old Edge on a slow tabet though and scrolls through posts quicker. However old Edge launches much quicker into Google home page than new Edge & Chrome.
Will see. Still missing the features initially mentioned of course. Set aside tabs in particular is very useful. Though I know Chrome has/had an extension to do something like that.
I notice potential plans to launch Edge Chromium on other platforms, so that makes more sense to have it as a version of full Chromium rather than just the engine.
rjansen85 Edge on iOS is not the same Edge as on Windows. Edge on iOS is a skinned version of webkit/safari. Edge on Android is similarly already built around Blink (Chromium). Edge on Windows 10 was/is the outlier. This is one of the reasons why performance on mobile (Android/iOS) has already been at parity with the other major browsers for a while.
I see the decision here to be in perfect harmony with Microsoft's plan to abandon a unique mobile ecosystem and focus more on services.
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This is great feedback. We started with the fundamentals and will continue to ship features out as fast as we can. Please continue to update your builds and let us know how we are doing.
Elliot
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Set Tabs Aside is my most frequently used Edge feature. That's what keeps me from using other browsers. My 32" screen is shared by two Edge windows, each having their own sets of tabs. I want to be able to set aside my tabs real bad.
- Hopefully Set Tabs Aside feature if it comes will also add syncing support. Currently I can only have my Set Tabs Aside collections on single machine, but I don't have same saved tabs across devices.
It would be even more useful to have sync support. Maybe even include Timeline support for it.
Deleted I personally liked the Reading List and Reading View as well, I'm not seeing the option for those in this version? Maybe I am missing something.
twelles reading view is listed in the "coming soon" section
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Thanks ... great Edge feature
I agree that the current Edge has some very unique Features that are missing now. For me, from the ones Deleted mentioned "Set tabs aside" and "Inking" are the most important ones, but I also want to add the possibility to pin to the start menu or to the task bar. I heavily rely on this and hope we do not have to wait ages like when transitioning from IE to Edge ...
- Yes All this plus "old Edge" has a much more slick menu for settings and favroites than "new edge does" please use that with a bit some transparency on the right most pane and material transparency to the left. Also Cortana sidebar sould hole the system theme and offer some fluent design.
