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andres
Brass Contributor
Aug 05, 2021
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Smart Copy missing

Hello all,    I'm on Edge Beta (93.0.961.11) and for the past few months Smart Copy has been missing. It was there at some point in time.  In fact, on the What's New! page that comes up after Edge ...
  • atlanto's avatar
    atlanto
    Aug 13, 2021

    Smart Copy seems to be on field trial stage, at least for me on beta/dev/canary channels.
    In any channels(stable..canary), command-line option "--enable-features=msEdgeAreaSelect" should enable the feature.

     

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atlanto
Iron Contributor
Sep 17, 2021

ncazer 

See 3dots menu->Help and feedback->Send feedback->Send diagnostic data(link)->Experiments and Field Trials(link).
There are
  "disabled_experiments": [ ... ]
  "enabled_experiments": [ ... ]
and
  {"feature_name": "msEdgeAreaSelect","trial_name": "SmartCopy"}
under enabled_experiments in my case.(beta 94.0.992.19, canary 95.0.1017.0, ...)

 

Note that this configuration is not same for all users and not configurable on user side.
Only command-line option can make change.

 

BTW, there is no such trial on stable 93.0.961.47 in my case but I can enable SmartCopy with just launching
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe" --enable-features=msEdgeAreaSelect.
I don't know whether "msEdgeAreaSelect" has some dependency or some blocker though.

 

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ratu2007
Brass Contributor
Sep 17, 2021

atlanto 

I am using Version 95.0.1011.1 (Official build) dev (64-bit)

 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Dev \Application\msedge.exe --enable-features=msEdgeAreaSelect

 

Still, Smart Copy is missing.

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    ncazer
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 17, 2021

    ratu2007 

     

    I also am still not seeing smart copy after trying these cmd commands, and I don't see it under the developer options (clicking on the gear), or by going through the feedback / diagnostic data link.

     

    Can someone please advice?

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