Top feedback summary for November 4

David Rubino In the latest beta, the ability to change the picture locally to one of the built-in clip art images (I originally chose the blue robot) is no longer available for online-synced accounts. Instead, when managing the profile, there is a "change picture" link which just redirects to the URL to edit your online account's profile pic that's used pretty much everywhere in the O365 ecosystem. Subjectively, I think this is worse. You should be able to choose to use your online picture or one of the local images (or any arbitrary image file for that matter) so you can easily distinguish between your personal and work accounts at a glance. Chrome supports this. I'm sure I'm not the only person who uses the same professional photo for both my personal and work accounts.

Everything I've said is a matter of preference, but there is an actual defect as well. If you are going to force us to only be able to use our online profile pic, it should at least be consistent. If you look below, you can see that the Edge profile linked to my personal MS account, for which I selected the blue robot clip art image as the profile pic in an earlier Beta build, still shows that clip art in the task bar, but not in the browser.

David Rubino Lots to love in this new Edge! One thing I use Edge for nearly everyday is highlighting/annotating PDFs for school. I've noticed that the new Edge now has tools for annotating PDFs with a pen, but the feature set is very limited:

• Only blue pen, one thickness
• No highlighting (which I wish could be "freehand" not related to the text like in current Edge)
• Surface Pen eraser doesn't seem to be working
• When I draw, it looks unsmooth, then smooths out and moves just slightly after I draw it.

If the current feature set launches in January, I will be unable to continue using Edge when the next semester begins. Can we expect feature parity with the old Edge for PDF annotations in time for public launch?

Thanks for all the hard work!

Hi David,

I am not sure if the ability exists but is there a way to access favourites\bookmarks while in fullscreen mode ? At the moment i am having to exit fullscreen mode to select another bookmark. 

I was hoping a menu to bookmarks would be available by write clicking or hovering to the top of the screen brings down the URL bar and menu like original Edge browser.

Many Thanks

Daniel

Please add to the list Collections syncing

And keep Microsoft Edge Google-free

I don't see why adding OneNote clipper extension to the Microsoft extension store is a big deal. it's been available in Chrome store forever and there are far more important extensions missing in Microsoft extension store.

there needs to be a way so that extension developers can submit new extensions for Edge insider into your store.

The sync functionality is very fragile and unstable right now. it's good when there is only 1 browser syncing but the problems start happening after there is more than 1 browser or device syncing to the same device. 

there are Numerous posts of many people having this problem. some are seeing duplicate bookmarks, others are seeing missing data (bookmarks, passwords etc), some others are not seeing changes applied to one browser being applied to others.

Yes Favorites, passwords, address, open tabs Syncs are enabled but It's gonna take at least 1 year to make them reliable.

I have some feedback regarding the new edge beta, if this is the wrong place, i apologize. I love the new edge, but there are a few things i feel it is missing. *mostly because of my OCD. I very much miss the edge tabs that are perfectly square and go all the way to the top of the browser. To me this looks very clean and better organized. Would it be very difficult to give us the option to have that tab style turned on or customized? Also i actually found the preview pane of Edge VERY useful. As a network engineer, i shock a lot of people by telling them that edge is my favourite browser when asked what i use. It is very neat and clean looking (i may be the ONLY person in the world that cares about this) and it also uses almost no system resources compared to other browsers. If i could have the option to use the old edge tab style, but with the new format options (focused, inspirational, etc) and everything else the same, this browser would be perfect. Also, is it just me or does the button for quick changing the page layout on a new tab seem weirdly placed? Put the quick change button on on the browser bar with the rest of the buttons!  David Rubino 

David Rubino 

Very excited to see syncing finally get a timeline: I was absolutely uneasy that this feature either 1) might not launch in the first stable release or 2) not have enough testing and launch with a lot of broken corner cases.

Browser history syncing especially, could take a lot of testing between all the operating systems Edge supports: iOS to Android to MacOS to Windows 10 to Windows 8 to Windows 10.

Unrelated: will Edge get a new name, too? I guess we'll always call them "Old Edge with the single color E" vs "Chromium Edge with the swirly and colorful E". And will 1809 + 1903 + 1909 automatically get the new Edge or only 20H1 users? Maybe we'll get more answers this week at Ignite!