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Share This Page?
The biggest feature I use with Edge is the "Share This Page" button to Share the Page via installed apps. Will this be brought over to the new Edge? Without it I have no reason to use the new Edge.
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I am still shocked that this functionality has still not been added. This is NOT a feature it is a basic requirement of any productive browser. I am very much thinking of going back to Chrome if the new Edge is not going to provide it. I have better functionality on my Android phone browser. Sorry but it seems like users are just allowing Edge to have reduced functionality and leave it up to third party add-ins which I find creates issues with performance and overhead. Cheers
pgmolloy
Many of us keep trying to tell the Team there are Edge things that are MUST-HAVES. People use Edge because of them. Things that must not be neglected, ignored, omitted OR CHANGED not, in location, appearance or function. They tell us the stuff IS coming. Well, adoption rate likely depends on it, a lot.
The repeated comments on this stuff is increasing daily. New visitors coming on board w/ the same views. And I have noticed comments becoming more and more 'pointed', passionate & intense about this as time (without the items) passes. Humans are not known for patience & w/ no published Roadmap... Insiders are somewhat in the dark as to what to expect & when. But, they know what they want & they want it yesterday.
Cheers,
Drew
- Yes I can confirm the share button do exist in edge canary
Thank you for the update /details.
Do you know if there will be a keyboard shortcut, not just a toolbar shortcut?
Thank you.
Tom Ward
- Am missing this feature loads, especially when using tablet mode
- Ditto, so far Edge Chromium has been awesome on my tablet. But I hate having to cut & paste into legacy Edge to get the share feature. The old share feature is great because of the preview it builds in a email message! Please port this feature over.
- I add a Chrome extension from the Chrome Extension Store to add this functionality. It'scalled AddtoAny
Greg Rachocki I agree with everyone on this list. Sharing links, web pages, clipboards, files, photos, algorithms, code, applications, desktops and just about anything digital is probably what any user of a computer or digital device is now either doing or wants to do. If New Edge and the Chrome Project really want the Internet, the Web and the digital world to be able to go to the next evolutionary step then the one of the core fundamental capabilities besides standardization and security would have to be a "Share Anything Anytime Anywhere" architecture built into the browser sub system and exposed through the open source interfaces. The interface such as the New Edge and other browsers could then offer their particular flavors of sharing technologies and AI type components to further enhance the user experience in sharing. I think this is where core sharing libraries from skype type technologies would enhance web development and end user experiences. Just a few spontaneous thoughts. But for now just add sharing please. I want to click and send a link to a colleague in milliseconds not minutes!!!
Have to chime in here. Hated the original Edge but am very impressed with the Chromium version.
Since I'm not a Google fan, kept using the Firefox and IE, depending on what I needed to do.
IE has a send button that allows easy sending of links via email. FF, has one also. If I want to share a page, I wind up having to copy the link into FF and then send it.
Can it be that hard?
This lack is about the only thing that keeps me from making the new Edge my default browser.
Keep up the good work.
Greg Rachocki wrote:The biggest feature I use with Edge is the "Share This Page" button to Share the Page via installed apps. Will this be brought over to the new Edge? Without it I have no reason to use the new Edge.
Also the feature I currently miss the most on this awesome browser! Thank you guys, doing a great job in any case!
- Yes, this gets my vote.... I use it often...
Dennis5mile HI guys, HiGreg Rachocki , It's also my Edge's favorite feature and wish it comes to the new development soon.
- Sharing gets my vote too
Greg Rachockiis right. While there are many new extensions that can be used that help in sharing, having the Windows share button provides consistency across the OS experience. That said: I developed a Share to Whatsapp feature (unfortunately Microsoft didn't publish because the store people said they didn't see the value) so I created it as an Chrome Extension. Now I am able to use it with the new Edge Chromium
Hi Zeid Shubailat , that's a great Idea for an extension , very useful, I did not found your "Share to Whatsapp" in chrome store, please, publish it
- Hi Sergio Hernandez
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/share-to-whatsapp/nbcbmhabgcajfdcfdkmoibecllfpijcj?hl=en
It’s here
Zeid
Greg Rachocki Adding the Share ths Page feature would be awesome. I use it every day. In fact I am copying URLs from Edge (Chromium) to the traditional Edge in order to use that feature.
So far my experience using/testing Edge (Chromium) has been great. Seems more fluid than Edge and Chrome!
