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MissyQ
Microsoft
Jan 28, 2020Top Feedback Summary for January 28
Note: This is no longer the most recent top feedback summary. You can always find the latest at https://aka.ms/MSEdgeTopFeedback.
Hey, Insiders! Welcome to this week’s Top Feedback Summary post. We have a few updates for you all.
We added a new item this week due to the amount of feedback we’ve received. Edge cannot find devices to cast media is now on the list to track our progress. We have no information on when this will be re-enabled, however you can follow the steps in last week’s summary as a work around. You’ll see updates here as we get them.
Allow sign-in to the browser with a Google account has moved to Not Planned this week. You can read more information on why that decision was made in the discussion thread for this topic.
Unfortunately, there’s a couple things that are being pushed out to next month. We now have the following items under Planned for February:
- Enable sync of installed browser extensions between devices
- Need for better handling of links when there is more than one profile.
Enable sync of browsing history between devices has moved from Planned for January to Planned for Summer. The team continues to work hard to bring this to the browser, however there are some architecture changes that need to be made which will impact the delivery of the feature. We will provide more updates around history sync as we get them.
You may notice that we’ve broken out our Quality Areas section! We feel this will better show what we continuously work on over time, rather than have a set schedule for when something is released or resolved.
Lastly, we have an update to two-finger scrolling! While we haven’t resolved everything around TouchPad scrolling, Clay posted a detailed explanation of where we are in this process.
Here’s the full updated list:
Status |
Feedback |
On this list for |
Not Planned (View the discussion) |
Allow sign-in to the browser with a Google account |
23 weeks |
Planned for January |
Favorites sync issues, including sync not working, deleted favorites reappearing, and favorites being duplicated |
8 weeks |
Planned for January |
Option to set a custom photo as the New Tab Page background photo |
23 weeks |
Planned for February |
Enable sync of installed browser extensions between devices |
11 weeks |
Planned for February |
Need for better handling of links when there is more than one profile |
22 weeks |
Planned for Summer |
Enable sync of browsing history between devices |
12 weeks |
Planned |
Edge cannot find devices to cast media |
NEW! |
Planned |
Make Edge available on Linux |
1 week |
Planned |
Support read aloud of PDF files |
1 week |
Planned |
Provide option to keep specific cookies when choosing to clear browsing data on close |
11 weeks |
Planned |
Provide an option to add a share button to the tool bar |
13 weeks |
Planned (Join the discussion) |
Add the ability to ink on web pages |
13 weeks |
Planned (Join the discussion) |
Touchpad two-finger scrolling is sometimes triggering a right click instead |
21 weeks |
Planned (Join the discussion) |
Provide different options for sorting favorites |
23 weeks |
Planned |
Support themes from the Chrome Web Store |
23 weeks |
Planned |
Provide an option to prevent auto-play of video and audio when you open a website |
23 weeks |
In Discussion |
Ask users if they want to close all tabs when they close a browser window |
18 weeks |
In Discussion |
Provide a transparent theme for the browser frame |
19 weeks |
In Discussion |
The address bar and its text are too big, and should be smaller like Chrome |
21 weeks |
In Discussion |
Bring the tab set aside feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
23 weeks |
In Discussion |
Update the user interface with the Fluent Design System |
23 weeks |
In Discussion |
Make tabs more square and less rounded, like the current version of Microsoft Edge |
23 weeks |
In Discussion (Join the discussion) |
Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files |
23 weeks |
In Discussion (Join the discussion) |
Bring the Ask Cortana feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
23 weeks |
In Discussion (Join the discussion) |
Bring the reading list feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
23 weeks |
Under Review |
Opening a new tab is too slow |
17 weeks |
Under Review |
Add an option to hide the Bing search bar on the new tab page |
22 weeks |
Under Review |
Allow the search bar in the new tab page to be configured with other search providers |
22 weeks |
Under Review |
Bring the tab preview feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
22 weeks |
Under Review |
Provide an option to set a custom URL for a new tab instead of showing the new tab page |
22 weeks |
Not Planned |
Support mouse gestures for common actions like navigation and tab close |
13 weeks |
And here’s the list of top “quality areas” that we’re actively working on in response to your feedback:
Bring more extensions to the extensions store |
Edge should use less memory than it does |
Edge should use less CPU than it does |
Scrolling should feel smoother for web pages |
Scrolling should feel smoother for PDF files |
Definitions:
Addressed – Changes to address this feedback are visible to all users in the Canary and Dev channels
Not Planned – We don’t currently plan to address this feedback, though we will continue to track it and reconsider our approach if needed
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 |
Add the ability to change the location for news content on the new tab page |
20 weeks |
Jan 22, 2020 |
Provide the ability to change the title of tiles on the new tab page |
22 weeks |
Jan 22, 2020 |
Enable search in the extensions store |
17 weeks |
Dec 19, 2019 |
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 |
|
- DeletedAre there any plans to be able to pin Favorites on the left side of the screen like IE11? Also, my favorites are not syncing between IE11 and Edge Chromium.
- ikjadoonBronze Contributor
MissyQ Stunningly inept to delay history syncing (by months!) at the last moment.
You've lost another tester here. There's no continuity without complete syncing (Settings, History, Extensions, Dictionary, etc. Why should we either test and/or use a 2000s-era browser?). Like Chrome, your browser is feeling like a test-bed for a multi-billionaire conglomerate "play with something", while refusing to address your actual flops & failures with consumers.
Your decision is disturbingly opaque and reeks of procrastination ("Work on the easy stuff first: it'll look like we're being productive"). This is a development failure, a communication failure, an expectations failure, and a goodwill failure.
Glad at least I know to end this experiment now; better to jump ship now than to be here when syncing is further delayed to winter 2020 for Insiders and summer 2021 for stable: if you didn't expect architectural changes months ago, what other surprises are lurking in your was-once-a-working-codebase-now-a-landmine-field-needing-architectural-changes-to-sync-profiles? Yikes.
And to think that history syncing was ever something "difficult" and/or "delayed" speaks to how Microsoft's employees actually use a browser: hardly for work, mostly for play.
Nope. Not giving this a chance: the faith is gone.
- CMasterson
Microsoft
Hi ikjadoon
I am a program manager that works on history sync and I can empathize with your frustration. We, too, are upset that we must push out our shipping date. We also feel the move is necessary to ship a quality product. Sync is an important experience to get right. It has been no simple task, and we are working hard to make it great. We really appreciate that you have tested Edge and have shared feedback. We take customer feedback seriously and value your comments.
To speak more specifically, history sync is something we have been working on since we began the Chromium initiative. It is actually the most complex item we are syncing. While we use much of the Chromium code base, we have done a lot of work to ensure our experiences connect smoothly with Microsoft services. Sometimes this involves re-architecting Chromium code to better fit within the Microsoft ecosystem. History syncing has fallen into this bucket. We tried (for quite a while) to make it work with the existing code and protocols, but have decided we need a different approach better suited to our backend services. This ultimately provides a better experience for our users.
So all in all, I wanted to acknowledge your frustration and let you know we really care about doing this right and making Edge a great product. I also wanted to reiterate that we value your feedback and appreciate how engaged you are on this forum.
- bradmacdonaldIron Contributor
CMasterson Thank you very much for the update and overall explanation; very helpful! I suppose I was slightly frustrated when I heard that history sync would be pushed back a few months, but upon further reflection, I'd rather have this important feature set "rock-solid" when it's introduced as opposed to including something that wasn't ready for prime-time.
In my view, by the time summer rolls around (which, really, is not that far away), this delay will all be forgotten.
Thanks again to the Edge team; you have a great product that is now my browser of choice!
- Spoiler
ikjadoon wrote:MissyQ Stunningly inept to delay history syncing (by months!) at the last moment.
You've lost another tester here. There's no continuity without complete syncing (Settings, History, Extensions, Dictionary, etc. Why should we either test and/or use a 2000s-era browser?). Like Chrome, your browser is feeling like a test-bed for a multi-billionaire conglomerate "play with something", while refusing to address your actual flops & failures with consumers.
Your decision is disturbingly opaque and reeks of procrastination ("Work on the easy stuff first: it'll look like we're being productive"). This is a development failure, a communication failure, an expectations failure, and a goodwill failure.
Glad at least I know to end this experiment now; better to jump ship now than to be here when syncing is further delayed to winter 2020 for Insiders and summer 2021 for stable: if you didn't expect architectural changes months ago, what other surprises are lurking in your was-once-a-working-codebase-now-a-landmine-field-needing-architectural-changes-to-sync-profiles? Yikes.
And to think that history syncing was ever something "difficult" and/or "delayed" speaks to how Microsoft's employees actually use a browser: hardly for work, mostly for play.
Nope. Not giving this a chance: the faith is gone.
I felt the same, I was sad to hear it was postponed to the next season.
but there are few things here.
they prioritized the sync features and gave extension syncing more priority and it was wise because it's more important than web history syncing. it takes way more time to install extensions one by one, specially when they are from different stores.
also we don't know the technical difficulties going on in the project.
I was thinking why Microsoft aren't hiring more engineers and developers to work on the Edge project simultaneously to develop all of the features quickly, I haven't managed to find an answer to my question.
with all of that said, and to be fair and honest, the Faith is definitely not gone. no browser went from 0% to 100% in a year, and it's not even been a year since the new Microsoft Edge started, YET we see Edge is kicking Chrome's butt.
Yes Chrome, the browser with more than a decade experience and Time to perfect itself.
it's Always good to tell both sides of the story.
- Kan-WinSteel Contributor
- tomyan112Brass Contributor
- KrisNelsonCopper Contributor
Here is my list of improvements for being able to control the browser via GPO's. Admittedly I am not using dev versions, so if any of these are fixed please forgive me.
- Add Profile in the settings; despite my disabling the ability to add a profile, this button still works.
- Profile Syncing: I would like control over which areas sync, I honestly don't want anything but favorites to sync; maybe collections when they are implemented.
- Clearing browser on close: again I'd like to be able to control all the toggles on this page as I don't want to clear everything, just most of it.
- Privacy: I would like to control the 'Allow sites to check if you have payment info saved'; I don't allow payment info to be saved, but I'd also like to know websites aren't checking for it.
- Site Permissions / Unsandboxed plugins: I'd like control over this toggle.
- PDF Documents: I'd like the ability to set the handling of PDF's being opened with the system default PDF handler or specify which application would handle this.
- PDF Documents: As opposed to the above, I would like the ability to restrict how links in PDF's are handled, for example, Adobe allows me to block clicking on links all together or gives me the ability to block or allow only certain links. Then I could use the built in PDF viewer.
- Payment Handles: I would like control over this toggle.
- edge://policy: I'd like to be able to turn this off. I love it for myself, but my users don't need to see this.
- Allow Extensions for other sources: Since I brought over my chrome extension whitelist, I want to set this to on by default so my users don't have to.
-Kris
- AndrewSpence85Copper Contributor
- ahl2ndcIron Contributor
You can, of cause, create a Microsoft account that uses the same e-mail address that your Google Account is (e.g. xxx@gmail.com).
This is no more different that you can't use your Google Account to log on to Facebook (I think?).
Anyway, Edge needs a place to store the synchronized things (passwords, favorites etc.) and have chosen to do it in a Microsoft account.
- Spoiler
ahl2ndc wrote:You can, of cause, create a Microsoft account that uses the same e-mail address that your Google Account is (e.g. xxx@gmail.com).
This is no more different that you can't use your Google Account to log on to Facebook (I think?).
Anyway, Edge needs a place to store the synchronized things (passwords, favorites etc.) and have chosen to do it in a Microsoft account.
Exactly.
Microsoft can put user data (favorites, passwords, credit card info etc) on a secure container and then allow users to unlock that container, using Microsoft account, in order to use that data on their Edge browser.
in addition to that, Microsoft can allow users to use other credentials than Microsoft accounts' to authenticate. such as a Facebook account.
it's what a lot of websites are already doing.
take IMDB website as an example. you can login using Facebook, Google, IMDB account itself and others. in a way that your IMDB account is connected to your Facebook account, so you need to specify it first and explicitly make the connection between your IMDB and Facebook account.
the same thing can happen with Microsoft account for Edge browser.
user can connect their Facebook account to their Microsoft account so then they can log in both using their Microsoft and Facebook account credentials.
- Klb123Copper Contributor
Please, please, please can the browser team really start looking at the feedback properly.
What should really matter is that the browser is FUNCTIONAL. Why release something that is not ready for primetime? It is painfully obvious someone overpromised that the browser would be ready to replace old Edge, and now the team is struggling to include those legacy features as well as trying to get features working that other browsers already have.
History and tab sync is VITAL if you are promoting this as a cross-platform browser. With you pushing this further back every release, it just shows this team at Microsoft is not able to perform the job.
Unfortunately, I have completely lost any trust in the browser getting any of these features done in the near future. I have to cancel the plan to convert the fleet from Chrome to the new Edge.
- Omar-OsIron ContributorNow Edge has released officially and I'm still waiting for:
- Ask users if they want to close all tabs when they close a browser window (Like in Firefox, IE and many others)
- Middle Mouse Clicks to open new tabs when clicked on the tabs bar (Like in Firefox)
- Move the opened tabs to the bookmarks toolbar by just dragging them with the mouse (Like in Firefox)
- Built-in Ad-Blocker (Like in Opera)
- Built-in VPN (Like in Opera)
- Importing from Firefox (Which doesn't exists on 90% of the machines I've tried) which is a MAJOR bug!! It's basically the first step I'm going to do "when" I move to Edge !!
So I'm not moving to Edge until these are added/fixed.. and trust me I want to move to Edge because I use almost all Microsoft products including Windows Defender,OneDrive, Office 356 and more! And everything is synced into my Microsoft account! And Edge is great so far and I want it to be synced too! But not perfect since these things and more are missing!
They should be very very simple to add since they exists in Firefox like a decade and half ago... (Except for Ad-Blocker & VPN which exists in the useless Opera for years!)
But looks like Edge still have years to be "near" perfect since you guys don't care much, and until then I see 0 reasons to use it and 0 reasons to change Firefox.- ahl2ndcIron Contributor
Omar-Os wrote:
- Built-in Ad-Blocker (Like in Opera)
- Importing from Firefox (Which doesn't exists on 90% of the machines I've tried) which is a MAJOR bug!! It's basically the first step I'm going to do "when" I move to Edge !!What's wrong with the tracking blocking in Edge? It blocks most ads as far as I can see.
I have no problems with the Firefox import. But you can't select it as an option, when you use the "import browser data" wizard? I can see that the browser import wizard only shows browsers installed on the computer.
- Omar-OsIron Contributor
1- It doesn't block ads at all.
2- Latest Firefox is installed on dozens of machines I'm using and I don't see it in the import list of Edge in any of them! I've reported this many times...
- DavidGBSteel Contributor
Still no sign of any of the things that matter to me.
If I am to consider using Chromium Edge instead of Firefox, I absolutely need:
1 Middle-click on favorites in favorites menus and sub-menus to leave the menus OPEN so that additional favorites can be clicked on without having to re-open and re-navigate the favorites menus for each one, as per IE, Edge Classic and Firefox (and every browser I've used as my normal browser since at least 2005).
2 Option for more quick links on New Tab page (ideally option for one or two rows, and option for how many in a row).
3 As I won't use a desktop browser that won't sync favorites, passwords, history etc with an Android browser I am prepared to use on my phone, and as I'm not prepared to use an Android browser with controls at the bottom of the screen so won't use current Android Edge, either: (a) get the Android Edge team to provide an option to move the bottom control bar to the top, like Firefox preview now has; or (b) this desktop Edge needs to be able to sync (not just one off import) favorites, history etc with another brand of Android browser I WILL use, with Firefox and Google Chrome being the current possibles.
Note with respect to 1 above: it occurred to me a possibility for me to be able to open several favorites (which ones varying each time, not a constant group I can have alone in one folder) without having to re-open and re-navigate the favorites menus for each one would be for me to pin edge://favorites/, and use that rather than the favorites bar or button. Would mean an extra click each time, and lose my current selected tab, but I can middle-click several favorites in it without closing menus. EXCEPT I then find that my OTHER need is lost - middle-clicking on a favorites folder/sub-folder to open ALL favorites in the folder, which I also do many times a day. That works in the favorites menus from the favorites bar, but DOESN'T work in the Manage Favorites page. WTF? In Firefox, middle-clicking on favorites in favorite bar menus keeps the menu open and middle-clicking on a folder there opens all favorites in the menu; and in the manage favorites page middle-clicking on a favorite opens it in a background tab so I can open several in a row, while middle-clicking on a folder of favorites there DOES open all favorites in the folder - I can happily use either the favorites bar or the manage favorites page. But you guys have managed to bork different parts of BOTH methods: middle-clicking to open all in a folder works in the dopdown menus, but middle-clicking on a favorite doesn't leave the menu open so I can pick several without re-opening and re-navigating each time.; using the pinned favorite page lets me middle-click on several favorites and have them open in background tabs so no -re-opening and navigating, but middle-clicking on a folder there does NOTHING. (Yes, I can right click and then scroll in the context menu to open all, but WHY should I have to?)
You have simply made my normal browsing too cumbersome as compared with other browsers, and even IE. I should be able to open all favorites in a folder with one click AND open several individual favorites with nothing more than one click each, no re-opening, re-navigating, context menus or any of that like other browsers manage and other Microsoft browsers have managed. Sort yourselves out - there is no possibility of me using this browser until and unless you do.
I'm on Firefox 73 now and middle clicking on the bookmark/favorite drop down menu on the top-right closes it and Firefox automatically switches to the new tab. this is the default behavior and there is no option in Firefox that i could find to change it for the bookmarks bar.
- Nathan_Roberts-SNBrass Contributor
Hey there, MissyQ
Please can you add the ability to send web pages to another device. This would be handy for work when we have to move from one computer to another in a school environment.
Nathan,
Nathan_Roberts-SN wrote:Please can you add the ability to send web pages to another device. This would be handy for work when we have to move from one computer to another in a school environment.
Hi,
you can use the Your Phone app if you have it on both Windows 10 and on your mobile phone,
it could be also possible to do it if they enable "open tab syncing" option in here:
it was enabled for 1-2 months but then suddenly it was switched to "coming soon" and there is no specific date for when it is going to come back again!
- CMasterson
Microsoft
Hi tojtojka ,
I'm a PM working on history sync and want to acknowledge your frustration. We have been working to ensure our backend systems can work with the Chromium code base. History is a complex item to sync and we made this decision to ensure we can release a quality experience. I can empathize with your frustration here. Thank you for your engagement in the tech community. It means a lot that you care about this feature enough to comment.
- Spoiler
CMasterson wrote:Hi tojtojka ,
I'm a PM working on history sync and want to acknowledge your frustration. We have been working to ensure our backend systems can work with the Chromium code base. History is a complex item to sync and we made this decision to ensure we can release a quality experience. I can empathize with your frustration here. Thank you for your engagement in the tech community. It means a lot that you care about this feature enough to comment.
Thank you. extension syncing is definitely more important than History syncing.
History is something that can be generated dynamically by users any time. but installing extensions, specially when they come from different sources and stores, is really painful. so it was wise prioritizing extension syncing over History syncing.
- Klb123Copper ContributorThis browser is slowly turning in to a joke. I was willing to give it a chance, but now it has officially released and it doesn't support something as basic as history syncing, I'm going back to Chrome.