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Top Feedback Summary for March 11
Not entirely sure how this forum/post is meant to work, but taking a shot at sharing a very important suggestion here. I think this is something that is holding back many, many, many users from switching fully to Edge.
Been using Chrome for many years, and while it is very stable, I've grown tired of lack of development, and more importantly, tired of "customer unfriendlyness" in some key aspects, mainly in handling PDF documents and the flash phase-out process management.
Have contemplated a switch to Edge for a 1-2 years now, and with the new version, the step to do so is very small. Looks like many many similarities, and almost only improvements over the Chrome experience. Except....!
There's always been one thing that has held me back. I thought this was solved now, but looks like it's not.
--> Re-open "Recently closed" tabs.
How is it that this super-obvious, almost simplistic, feature demand, something anyone would take for granted, can't be set up properly in Edge? It's mind-boggling!
Microsoft is infamous for it's poor "update process management", forcing users to restart their computers and their entire workflow all the time, but offering very little to make this easier. The web browser is obviously one such thing. But Chrome had the answer there.
With Chrome, the re-open feature works more or less seamlessly. If a session is "abruptly shut down", the browser offers to re-open the tabs of the latest session. AND, most importantly, you can always go to History and find a solid and accurate list of "Recently closed" tabs.
--> How is it that Edge never really has the feature for a list of "Recently closed" tabs working?
Is this so hard?? I can't see why. I suspect that someone at MS has a slight OCD-problem with having to make the browser scrub cache and files with history, leading it to do more of that than intended. Seems like purely sloppy coding.
--> Almost anytime I want to used the "Recently closed" list, it's empty!!!
It only seems to track recently closed in the middle of a session, not in-between, which is really the only time a user needs it. It's definitely not working between forced updates.
--> So I ask you, how many forced updates, without being able to use the list of "Recently closed" tabs to re-start the browser session, do you think it takes before a potential user again(!!) decides to give up on Edge and stay with Chrome for a while longer??
I do so love seeing all of you jump in here and provide extra feedback. You all make me feel fuzzy inside. :3
ptrlkrs I am not sure what you mean by recently closed tabs isn't working. It's working for me on both Dev and Beta (my daily drivers). I also see it listed in my History from the ellipses menu. Do you have Edge set up to clear your history on exit? That might be what's happening here, unless I am wildly misunderstanding your post.
Edge will not be relying on Windows Update to be updated. We update directly via the browser with the chromium update. The only time you should see a Windows Update have an Edge update is when it's rolled out to all users.
Hopefully this helps clarify a few things! If you are having issues with the recently closed tabs still after adjusting your data clearing settings, please send me a DM so we can troubleshoot further. 🙂
Reza_Ameri-Archived We have been floating around both ideas (pun not intended) on the team! Ideas seems like it would work really great since we're already here. However, MS overall uses UserVoice pretty consistently. We have absolutely been thinking of ways to reiterate this post, and I thank you for your input around this! Hope to see you around our Insider forums more, too. 😄
HotCakeX Thanks so much for hopping around in here to get some answers to your fellow community members. For your thoughts on To Do lists, this will likely come in the form of a road map. The team has been talking about implementing one, but we don't have any info to share around it at this time.
Dino_Zuma I'm sorry to see you are still running into issues. HotCake got you an answer, but I wanted to expound a bit more. When we label something as Addressed, they have only been addressed in Canary and Dev channels. You can see this definition in my OP. When we updated that particular item, we noted that the issues could possible still arise in both Beta and Stable channels if users were only using those. It's likely this is what you're running into. I would ask that you please be patient while we implement the fix into the other channels. 🙂
Missy Quarry (she/her/hers)
Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
Thank you MissyQ !
Seems to be working now, subject moot. For a long-ish time during my initial Edge trial, the list of tab-titles under "History/ Recently closed" (accessed from three-dot menu in upper right corner) was always empty, except for tabs closed within that active session.
This was very annoying, especially after an involuntary W10 update with a force-restart of the computer, which would end any ongoing edge session without any help to get back closed tabs. (nothing to do with updates on Edge itself)
In any case, somehow, it fixed itself, or maybe I just started to do something differently. Anyway, I'm very happy with Edge now and have switched. Thumbs up!!
- Thank you MissyQ , for example I like style for the way for Microsoft Edge Platform Status which is:
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/status/
It could be good pattern to show feedback and their status too.
