Top feedback summary for October 1

David Rubino 

Well here's a new piece of feedback for you I haven't made or seen before. I've belatedly realised there is an issue that means I won't ever be using Edge as my desktop browser .... and it's not anything to do with anything you desktop Chromium Edge developers are doing or not doing. It's what your colleagues developing Android Edge have done.

There are, of course, compelling reasons to use the same 'brand' browser on both laptop and phone: the syncing of favorites, passwords, history, open tabs, throwing pages from the one to the other etc. I'd go as far as saying using the same browser on phone and desktop/laptop is a necessity nowadays, certainly for me. But that means anything blocking a user from using the Android version of a browser also blocks them from using the desktop version (and vice versa).

Your Android Edge colleagues, unfortunately, have made a design choice to have a bar of controls at the bottom of the screen. I HATE controls at the bottom of the screen. I simply won't use Apps that have bottom controls; I'll always choose a competitor app that doesn't instead. So, short of the Microsoft Android Edge team completely changing direction and losing the bottom controls, or adding an option to move those controls to the top - and I see no sign they are considering either - I will never even think of using Android Edge on my phone. And THAT means I won't ever use desktop Edge either (unless you make Chromium Edge able to sync favorites, passwords, history, open tabs et al with Android Firefox or Google Chrome, which seems unlikely).

Wish I'd looked at Android Edge more closely sooner, and so not wasted time on desktop Chromium Edge. Anyway, at least for this potential desktop Chromium Edge user, your efforts have been completely sabotaged by the Android Edge team.