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Microsoft Edge Legacy
TheShaunSaw The link is broken, but if true, that is a terrible move. Edge Chromium is nowhere near good enough yet to replace Edge Legacy without reprieve. **bleep**. Guess I must try and find another replacement browser now or decide to downgrade and defer Windows Updates on my main machines until Edge Chromium achieves parity with Edge Legacy. I hope it does not take years.
Sorry for the inconvenience. I checked the link now and the issue was that the link provided before was half and would have happened because I copied, pasted and posted the before reply on my mobile phone and it did not paste the whole link but did ... at the end which broke the URL. I have now corrected the link and now should work correctly. Thanks for bringing it into my attention 
Alexei_Drekker wrote:TheShaunSaw The link is broken, but if true, that is a terrible move. Edge Chromium is nowhere near good enough yet to replace Edge Legacy without reprieve. **bleep**. Guess I must try and find another replacement browser now or decide to downgrade and defer Windows Updates on my main machines until Edge Chromium achieves parity with Edge Legacy. I hope it does not take years.
True, I also feel that this should not happen till the Microsoft Edge Chromium is at par or better than Edge Legacy. Edge Chromium still does not have all the important features that the Legacy Edge did and would be unreliable for many users if this gets shipped through Windows 10 early.
- Thank you for the updated link. I have read it, and it does appear to state end of life support for the legacy version, but it does not appear to state outright that it will be completely inaccessible. As ever and always, they are vague in their messaging. Also, reading through the comments, there appears to be a lot more issues with these moves than my relatively trivial ones, and it seems like hardly any of them have been answered adequately. Intriguing.
I just tried to open a pdf on my insider machine, and good lord. It is still so bad and at almost the same level of usability as when it initially launched. Not a lot of confidence that they will manage to reach parity any time soon. I tried canary with the flag for smooth scrolling enabled and it did improve, but still nowhere near legacy levels. Also, they added support for Table of contents in canary and dev too, I think. I believe I posted a long time ago about PDF viewing issues, but they have made very little headway into most of my issues, and only one of them is being actively worked on as per their feedback summary. Edge does not even have the ability to view pdfs in two-page mode, and that has been on the feedback summary for 10 weeks. So, there's that. Can't believe they are stumbling again. After such a good launch too. Oh well.
I actually decided to just keep pace with Windows updates, and try to find a replacement pdf viewer instead of a replacement browser. At least, for now.
Thank you for responding with the helpful link.Yes, I also want the two-page view in the Immersive Reader and PDF viewer and many other features from months but most of them have still not yet been implemented.
As I saw that you are using third party PDF viewer, I can tell you that you can download the Adobe Acrobat extension from the Chrome Web Store and use it in the Microsoft Edge browser which is the default extension used in PDF viewing in Google Chrome.
- Wait. There is an Acrobat extension? Oh. I will check that out.
Okay. I downloaded it, but it just converts webpages to pdf. Also, I found that Adobe Reader is not smoother than Leacy Edge, for some inexplicable reason. Thouh Adobe, of all companies, would have had that down. Anyway, I actually got Drawboard PDF with a Dell PC a few years back, and it seems to be a much better viewing tool, but a little less convenient, than current Chromium Edge. I am using that for now.