Note: This is no longer the most recent top feedback summary. You can always find the latest at https://aka.ms/MSEdgeTopFeedback. Hello everyone, we took a break last week but we’re ready with a new update to the top feedback this week. First, there’s some trending new feedback this week about favorites sync issues. For most the symptom is that favorites are simply not syncing, a known issue which we’re working on at the highest priority. Others are reporting that deleted favorites are reappearing, or that duplicate favorites are showing up. We believe these are symptoms of the same known issue so for now we’re tracking them together on this list. We expect to address them as soon as possible this month. Next up, some other new plans: In direct response to your feedback we are planning to add the ability to keep cookies for specific sites when you’re clearing cookies. We’ll start a conversation here soon to help us better understand the problem and potential solutions. We expect the ability to change the location for news on the New Tab Page to arrive in January An option for a share button in the toolbar is planned, though we’re not ready to set an expected date just yet. Meanwhile, some of our planned changes for November didn’t quite come in on time. We now believe that better handling of links for multiple profiles and search in the extension store will come in December, whereas the ability to change the title of New Tab Page tiles is now expected in January. Finally, there’s one topic which we’re putting back in this list. In September we shipped the ability for users to limit or block autoplay via settings. Unfortunately, after several bug reports and some investigation, it turns out that the “block” functionality in the browser didn’t actually block autoplay and we turned this feature off in mid-October. We still want to ship a great autoplay experience that includes full block and granular control over what sites can and cannot autoplay, but don’t want to roll out a broken experience in the meantime. We’re sorry for the confusion and takeback, and hope to have things working well sometime next year. Here’s the full updated list of feedback: Status Feedback On this list for Planned for December Favorites sync issues, including sync not working, deleted favorites reappearing, and favorites being duplicated New Planned for December (Previously November) Need for better handling of links when there is more than one profile 15 weeks Planned for December (Previously November) Enable search in the extensions store 15 weeks Planned for January Enable sync of browsing history between devices 4 weeks Planned for January Enable sync of installed browser extensions between devices 4 weeks Planned for January Add the ability to change the location for news content on the new tab page 13 weeks Planned for January (Previously November) Provide the ability to change the title of tiles on the new tab page 15 weeks Planned Provide option to keep specific cookies when choosing to clear browsing data on close 3 weeks Planned Provide an option to add a share button to the tool bar 5 weeks Planned (Join the discussion) Touchpad two-finger scrolling is sometimes triggering a right click instead 13 weeks Planned Option to set a custom photo as the New Tab Page background photo 15 weeks Planned (Join the discussion) Provide different options for sorting favorites 15 weeks Planned (Learn more) Support themes from the Chrome Web Store 15 weeks Planned Provide an option to prevent auto-play of video and audio when you open a website 15 weeks In Discussion (Join the discussion) Add the ability to ink on web pages 5 weeks In Discussion (Join the discussion) Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files 13 weeks In Discussion (Join the discussion) Allow sign-in to the browser with a Google account 13 weeks In Discussion (Join the discussion) Bring the Ask Cortana feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge 13 weeks Under Review Opening a new tab is too slow 10 weeks Under Review Ask users if they want to close all tabs when they close a browser window 10 weeks Under Review Support mouse gestures for common actions like navigation and tab close 11 weeks Under Review Provide a transparent theme for the browser frame 11 weeks Under Review The address bar and its text are too big, and should be smaller like Chrome 13 weeks Under Review Bring the reading list feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge 15 weeks Under Review Add an option to hide the Bing search bar on the new tab page 15 weeks Under Review Allow the search bar in the new tab page to be configured with other search providers 15 weeks Under Review Bring the tab set aside feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge 15 weeks Under Review Bring the tab preview feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge 15 weeks Under Review Provide an option to set a custom URL for a new tab instead of showing the new tab page 15 weeks Under Review Update the user interface with the Fluent Design System 15 weeks Under Review Make tabs more square and less rounded, like the current version of Microsoft Edge 15 weeks Quality Area Bring more extensions to the extensions store 13 weeks Quality Area Edge should use less memory than it does 15 weeks Quality Area Edge should use less CPU than it does 15 weeks Quality Area Scrolling should feel smoother for web pages 15 weeks Quality Area Scrolling should feel smoother for PDF files 15 weeks Quality Area Update does not always work reliably 15 weeks Definitions: Addressed – Changes to address this feedback are visible to all users in the Canary and Dev channels Planned for… – We’re working on this and currently plan for it to be addressed in the Canary channel before the end of the month indicated Planned - We have reviewed this feedback and have a plan to address it. However, we aren't ready to share a target time frame just yet. In Discussion – We’ve reviewed this feedback and to learn more we have started a discussion about it here in the Microsoft Edge Insider Forum Under Review – We are reviewing this feedback internally and do not have a plan to share at this time. Quality Area – We will give extra weight to fixes and opportunities in this area. Please continue to report specific bugs and make specific asks. Archive of previously addressed topics: Feedback On this list for Addressed on The taskbar icon is not updating to the new Microsoft Edge logo 1 week Nov 14, 2019 A round of improvements to scrolling experience, with more (including performance) to come down the line 12 weeks Nov 14, 2019 YouTube.com does not render properly and appears extremely magnified 1 week Nov 4, 2019 Bring the OneNote Web Clipper to the Microsoft Edge extensions store 4 weeks Nov 4, 2019 Improve discoverability of the home button since some users are asking for it. (Join the discussion) 8 weeks October 29, 2019 Microsoft Edge is crashing whenever a new tab is opened from a link 1 week October 22, 2019 Inking for PDF files 9 weeks October 22, 2019 Provide an option to remove the send feedback “smiley” button from the toolbar 1 week October 15, 2019 Show the New Tab Page in dark theme when the browser is in dark theme 6 weeks October 1, 2019 Add the ability to turn off the news feed on the new tab page 6 weeks October 1, 2019 ClickOnce deployment of Windows applications from web pages 6 weeks October 1, 2019 Website elements are being flipped upside down when switching between tabs 1 week September 17, 2019 Sign-in profile picture is not always kept up to date 4 weeks September 17, 2019 “Administrator Mode Detected” error message when opening the browser 2 weeks September 4, 2019 Add a favorites button to the toolbar, for quicker access to favorites 1 week August 29, 2019 Make it easier to share web content with other users and apps 1 week August 29, 2019 Drop down menus in some web pages are not working 1 week August 29, 2019 Add a dark theme to Microsoft Edge Addressed before these posts started Build translation capabilities into the browser Addressed before these posts started Delete browsing history on exit Addressed before these posts started Show favorites bar only on the new tab page Addressed before these posts started Bring back reading view Addressed before these posts started Sync data with my work or school account Addressed before these posts started

It's good that you guys are giving Sync issues the highest priority, it's directly related to user data so it's very important. but please also add Acrylic style theme to the list too, make the UI and the title bar transparent/Acrylic like in Edge classic, it's the best theme for Edge.

ImRan420 ImRan420 wrote:I want this Grammarly feature; Show definitions and synonyms via double clicks (all sites).I have seen this feature in the current version of Microsoft Edge but it is missing in Chromium version. double clicks don't work like that for me in Edge classic.also right-click only has these options.

DustinJ Spoiler (Highlight to read)DustinJ wrote:HotCakeX wrote:Good thing Bing is so good? Not in this worldit's so much behind GoogleThat's a debatable topic. However what isn't debatable is that Microsoft has paid me nearly $200 in Amazon and Microsoft gift cards! I'm not ashamed, I can be bought. HotCakeX wrote:I would want to set my own custom image as the background for NTP, not Bing images, also favorites folder need to have custom colors so user can set any color they want instead of all being yellow...Custom folder colors would be amazing; however I would settle for just parity with the previous browsers. Walk before we run, etc. I'm really not a fan of the new tab pages whatsoever - I never understood the need for them. Why should it look or act differently than the main tab page? Now it's just one more thing I have to configure, or troubleshoot why it doesn't look right. But yeah, if they're going to give us a "Custom" NTP option, really make custom and make it completely configurable, including the option to replicate the home page. And what ever happened to "about:blank"? wrote: wrote:Good thing Bing is so good? Not in this worldit's so much behind GoogleThat's a debatable topic. However what isn't debatable is that Microsoft has paid me nearly $200 in Amazon and Microsoft gift cards! I'm not ashamed, I can be bought. wrote:I would want to set my own custom image as the background for NTP, not Bing images, also favorites folder need to have custom colors so user can set any color they want instead of all being yellow...Custom folder colors would be amazing; however I would settle for just parity with the previous browsers. Walk before we run, etc. I'm really not a fan of the new tab pages whatsoever - I never understood the need for them. Why should it look or act differently than the main tab page? Now it's just one more thing I have to configure, or troubleshoot why it doesn't look right. But yeah, if they're going to give us a "Custom" NTP option, really make custom and make it completely configurable, including the option to replicate the home page. And what ever happened to "about:blank"? Bing sucks at non-English searches, their web crawler is so bad at it, also not all websites are indexed in there.rewards points or the rewards themselves are also only good in US, for the other 200 countries, they are not that good, even in US there are more ways to earn points, these are the facts.it's as if Microsoft doesn't want to attract more people and they are happy with serving only US citizens.meanwhile, Google has spent so much on making their platform localized for a lot of languages and countries. about favorites folder color, well if they decide to do it, then they better do it once and do it right, not postpone it for later times. currently my NTP looks like this no more messing around with distractions etc, now all i need is to set a custom background there.that's the closest thing you can get to a blank new tab page 🙂

Please, this feature request hit 40+ likes.Consider adding that to the top feedback https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Add-the-epub-reader-from-EdgeUWP-to-Edge-Chromium/m-p/412326?search-action-id=135151214826&search-result-uid=412326

David Rubino Hi David,are you aware that the issue about the virtual keyboard (SIP) not auto-invoking in text-fields (except new tab page) on Windows tablets is still present? See https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1022295 for more details. Could one of you guys please help out the chromium developers since this is clearly related to a known bug in the TSF core, thanks. Still missing important features for tablet users on the feedback summary: The virtual keyboard (SIP) doesn't auto-invoke when using the pen/stylus, neither in addressbar nor in any text-fieldsThe experimental fullscreen-dropdown of the browser-frame (tabs and addressbar) only works with mouse and pen, but not with finger touchAbility to sort favorites with drag and drop when using pen or finger (enabling edge://flags/#enable-touch-drag-drop crashes the browser) Best regards

David Rubino

Former Employee

Dec 03, 2019

Top feedback summary for December 3

Note: This is no longer the most recent top feedback summary. You can always find the latest at https://aka.ms/MSEdgeTopFeedback.

Hello everyone, we took a break last week but we’re ready with a new update to the top feedback this week.

First, there’s some trending new feedback this week about favorites sync issues. For most the symptom is that favorites are simply not syncing, a known issue which we’re working on at the highest priority. Others are reporting that deleted favorites are reappearing, or that duplicate favorites are showing up. We believe these are symptoms of the same known issue so for now we’re tracking them together on this list. We expect to address them as soon as possible this month.

Next up, some other new plans:

In direct response to your feedback we are planning to add the ability to keep cookies for specific sites when you’re clearing cookies. We’ll start a conversation here soon to help us better understand the problem and potential solutions.
We expect the ability to change the location for news on the New Tab Page to arrive in January
An option for a share button in the toolbar is planned, though we’re not ready to set an expected date just yet.

Meanwhile, some of our planned changes for November didn’t quite come in on time. We now believe that better handling of links for multiple profiles and search in the extension store will come in December, whereas the ability to change the title of New Tab Page tiles is now expected in January.

Finally, there’s one topic which we’re putting back in this list. In September we shipped the ability for users to limit or block autoplay via settings. Unfortunately, after several bug reports and some investigation, it turns out that the “block” functionality in the browser didn’t actually block autoplay and we turned this feature off in mid-October. We still want to ship a great autoplay experience that includes full block and granular control over what sites can and cannot autoplay, but don’t want to roll out a broken experience in the meantime. We’re sorry for the confusion and takeback, and hope to have things working well sometime next year.

Here’s the full updated list of feedback:

Status	Feedback	On this list for
Planned for December	Favorites sync issues, including sync not working, deleted favorites reappearing, and favorites being duplicated	New
Planned for December (Previously November)	Need for better handling of links when there is more than one profile	15 weeks
Planned for December (Previously November)	Enable search in the extensions store	15 weeks
Planned for January	Enable sync of browsing history between devices	4 weeks
Planned for January	Enable sync of installed browser extensions between devices	4 weeks
Planned for January	Add the ability to change the location for news content on the new tab page	13 weeks
Planned for January (Previously November)	Provide the ability to change the title of tiles on the new tab page	15 weeks
Planned	Provide option to keep specific cookies when choosing to clear browsing data on close	3 weeks
Planned	Provide an option to add a share button to the tool bar	5 weeks
Planned (Join the discussion)	Touchpad two-finger scrolling is sometimes triggering a right click instead	13 weeks
Planned	Option to set a custom photo as the New Tab Page background photo	15 weeks
Planned (Join the discussion)	Provide different options for sorting favorites	15 weeks
Planned (Learn more)	Support themes from the Chrome Web Store	15 weeks
Planned	Provide an option to prevent auto-play of video and audio when you open a website	15 weeks
In Discussion (Join the discussion)	Add the ability to ink on web pages	5 weeks
In Discussion (Join the discussion)	Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files	13 weeks
In Discussion (Join the discussion)	Allow sign-in to the browser with a Google account	13 weeks
In Discussion (Join the discussion)	Bring the Ask Cortana feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge	13 weeks
Under Review	Opening a new tab is too slow	10 weeks
Under Review	Ask users if they want to close all tabs when they close a browser window	10 weeks
Under Review	Support mouse gestures for common actions like navigation and tab close	11 weeks
Under Review	Provide a transparent theme for the browser frame	11 weeks
Under Review	The address bar and its text are too big, and should be smaller like Chrome	13 weeks
Under Review	Bring the reading list feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge	15 weeks
Under Review	Add an option to hide the Bing search bar on the new tab page	15 weeks
Under Review	Allow the search bar in the new tab page to be configured with other search providers	15 weeks
Under Review	Bring the tab set aside feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge	15 weeks
Under Review	Bring the tab preview feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge	15 weeks
Under Review	Provide an option to set a custom URL for a new tab instead of showing the new tab page	15 weeks
Under Review	Update the user interface with the Fluent Design System	15 weeks
Under Review	Make tabs more square and less rounded, like the current version of Microsoft Edge	15 weeks
Quality Area	Bring more extensions to the extensions store	13 weeks
Quality Area	Edge should use less memory than it does	15 weeks
Quality Area	Edge should use less CPU than it does	15 weeks
Quality Area	Scrolling should feel smoother for web pages	15 weeks
Quality Area	Scrolling should feel smoother for PDF files	15 weeks
Quality Area	Update does not always work reliably	15 weeks

Definitions:

Addressed – Changes to address this feedback are visible to all users in the Canary and Dev channels

Planned for… – We’re working on this and currently plan for it to be addressed in the Canary channel before the end of the month indicated

Planned - We have reviewed this feedback and have a plan to address it. However, we aren't ready to share a target time frame just yet.

In Discussion – We’ve reviewed this feedback and to learn more we have started a discussion about it here in the Microsoft Edge Insider Forum

Under Review – We are reviewing this feedback internally and do not have a plan to share at this time.

Quality Area – We will give extra weight to fixes and opportunities in this area. Please continue to report specific bugs and make specific asks.

Archive of previously addressed topics:

Feedback	On this list for	Addressed on
The taskbar icon is not updating to the new Microsoft Edge logo	1 week	Nov 14, 2019
A round of improvements to scrolling experience, with more (including performance) to come down the line	12 weeks	Nov 14, 2019
YouTube.com does not render properly and appears extremely magnified	1 week	Nov 4, 2019
Bring the OneNote Web Clipper to the Microsoft Edge extensions store	4 weeks	Nov 4, 2019
Improve discoverability of the home button since some users are asking for it. (Join the discussion)	8 weeks	October 29, 2019
Microsoft Edge is crashing whenever a new tab is opened from a link	1 week	October 22, 2019
Inking for PDF files	9 weeks	October 22, 2019
Provide an option to remove the send feedback “smiley” button from the toolbar	1 week	October 15, 2019
Show the New Tab Page in dark theme when the browser is in dark theme	6 weeks	October 1, 2019
Add the ability to turn off the news feed on the new tab page	6 weeks	October 1, 2019
ClickOnce deployment of Windows applications from web pages	6 weeks	October 1, 2019
Website elements are being flipped upside down when switching between tabs	1 week	September 17, 2019
Sign-in profile picture is not always kept up to date	4 weeks	September 17, 2019
“Administrator Mode Detected” error message when opening the browser	2 weeks	September 4, 2019
Add a favorites button to the toolbar, for quicker access to favorites	1 week	August 29, 2019
Make it easier to share web content with other users and apps	1 week	August 29, 2019
Drop down menus in some web pages are not working	1 week	August 29, 2019
Add a dark theme to Microsoft Edge	Addressed before these posts started
Build translation capabilities into the browser	Addressed before these posts started
Delete browsing history on exit	Addressed before these posts started
Show favorites bar only on the new tab page	Addressed before these posts started
Bring back reading view	Addressed before these posts started
Sync data with my work or school account	Addressed before these posts started

80 Replies

ImRan420
Iron Contributor
Dec 04, 2019
Please consider adding Download and History button to the toolbar as well.
Neon01
Steel Contributor
Dec 03, 2019
David Rubino

Hi David,
are you aware that the issue about the virtual keyboard (SIP) not auto-invoking in text-fields (except new tab page) on Windows tablets is still present? See https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1022295 for more details.
Could one of you guys please help out the chromium developers since this is clearly related to a known bug in the TSF core, thanks.

Still missing important features for tablet users on the feedback summary:
The virtual keyboard (SIP) doesn't auto-invoke when using the pen/stylus, neither in addressbar nor in any text-fields
The experimental fullscreen-dropdown of the browser-frame (tabs and addressbar) only works with mouse and pen, but not with finger touch
Ability to sort favorites with drag and drop when using pen or finger (enabling edge://flags/#enable-touch-drag-drop crashes the browser)

Best regards
- matsmcp
  Steel Contributor
  Dec 04, 2019
  Neon01 David Rubino
  They should be.
  I showed them the bug at Ignite about a month ago.
  I did file a chromium bug on it too https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1024486#
  
  Besides from that we still miss the yellow folders, epub, set aside and the rest of the functions from Edge. The functions that will this Edge into something else than a chrome clone
  - HotCakeX
    MVP
    Dec 05, 2019
    I also wish they would give set aside more priority
FedeDiLo
Iron Contributor
Dec 03, 2019
Please, this feature request hit 40+ likes.
Consider adding that to the top feedback https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Add-the-epub-reader-from-EdgeUWP-to-Edge-Chromium/m-p/412326?search-action-id=135151214826&search-result-uid=412326
HotCakeX
MVP
Dec 03, 2019
It's good that you guys are giving Sync issues the highest priority, it's directly related to user data so it's very important.

but please also add Acrylic style theme to the list too, make the UI and the title bar transparent/Acrylic like in Edge classic, it's the best theme for Edge.
- FedeDiLo
  Iron Contributor
  Dec 03, 2019
  Isn't it already under review?
  - HotCakeX
    MVP
    Dec 03, 2019
    Oh right lol
    i searched through the page for "Acrylic" but i couldn't find it thought they removed it. transparency will do too 🙂

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