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MissyQ
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MicrosoftTop Feedback Summary for October 15
Note: This is no longer the most recent top feedback summary. You can always find the latest at https://aka.ms/MSEdgeTopFeedback.
Hey, Insiders! As we get ready to move Edge 88 into our Dev channel, this week’s update for your top feedback is pretty light. Let’s jump into what we have!
We are updating the status of Voice search on google.com doesn’t work from Planned for September to Planned for November. We have been hard at work to improve this feature and you can currently turn it on via command line in Canary. However, there is more work for us to complete in this space before it’s in both Dev and Canary channels by default. Keep an eye out for more updates in the future on this!
Additionally, you may have spotted in last week’s blog about What’s New in Web Experiences, users can now install themes in Edge! This week, we’re marking Support themes from the Chrome Web Store as Addressed. To use themes from other stores, remember to head to edge://extensions and turn on the setting in the bottom left to Allow extensions from other stores.
We’ll see you all for next week’s update!
Here’s the updated list for this week:
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Status |
Feedback |
On this list for |
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Addressed |
Support themes from the Chrome Web Store |
60 weeks |
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Planned for September (Join the discussion) |
Add the ability to ink on web page content |
50 weeks |
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Planned for October |
Make Edge available on Linux |
38 weeks |
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Planned for November |
Voice search on google.com doesn’t work |
24 weeks |
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Planned for November (Join the discussion) |
Bring the tab preview feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
60 weeks |
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Planned for Summer |
Enable sync of browsing history between devices |
50 weeks |
|
Planned |
Enable customers to pin Favorites menu to the side of the screen |
3 weeks |
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Planned |
Some passwords are not saved |
3 weeks |
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Planned |
Add dictionary in PDF |
7 weeks |
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Planned |
Enable vertical tabs feature |
8 weeks |
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Planned |
Edge should respect the default PDF viewer |
8 weeks |
|
Planned |
Enable customers to pin sites to Start Menu in Windows |
11 weeks |
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Planned |
Restore tabs if Edge or the OS is restarted for any reason |
11 weeks |
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Planned |
Support two-page layout in PDF reader |
17 weeks |
|
Planned |
Edge launches with previous session’s tabs when “On startup” setting is set to “Open a new tab” |
17 weeks |
|
Planned |
Add option to remove previous search terms from the New Tab Page’s search box auto-suggestion list |
18 weeks |
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Planned |
Add "text notes" feature to PDF files |
22 weeks |
|
Planned |
Some web page fonts are blurry |
23 weeks |
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Planned |
MSA profile picture is not updating |
27 weeks |
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Planned |
Allow more top sites on the New Tab Page |
32 weeks |
|
Planned |
Ask users if they want to close all tabs when they close a browser window |
55 weeks |
|
Planned |
Provide an option to prevent auto-play of video and audio when you open a website |
60 weeks |
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Alternative Planned |
Update the user interface with the Fluent Design System |
60 weeks |
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In Discussion |
The address bar and its text are too big, and should be smaller like Chrome |
60 weeks |
|
In Discussion |
Bring the tab set aside feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
60 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Add ability to close tabs via double-click |
27 weeks |
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Not Planned |
Support mouse gestures for common actions like navigation and tab close |
13 weeks |
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Not Planned (View the discussion) |
Allow sign-in to the browser with a Google account |
23 weeks |
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Not planned (See the discussion) |
Bring the reading list feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
35 weeks |
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Not Planned |
Provide a transparent theme for the browser frame |
43 weeks |
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Not Planned |
Make tabs more square and less rounded, like the current version of Microsoft Edge |
47 weeks |
And here’s the list of top “quality areas” that we’re actively working on in response to your feedback:
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Bring more extensions to the extensions store |
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Edge should use less memory than it does |
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Edge should use less CPU than it does |
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Scrolling should feel smoother for web pages |
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Scrolling should feel smoother for PDF files |
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Opening a new tab is too slow |
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Update does not always work reliably |
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.
Alternative Planned - We don’t currently plan to directly address this feedback; however, we are working on addressing this in the form of a new feature.
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:
Spoiler
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Feedback |
On this list for |
Addressed on |
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Enable automatic generation of strong passwords |
13 weeks |
Sept 15, 2020 |
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Enable navigation of PDF files via table of contents |
31 weeks |
Sept 15, 2020 |
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Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files |
55 weeks |
Sept 9, 2020 |
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Provide different options for sorting favorites |
51 weeks |
Aug 11, 2020 |
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Bring the Ask Cortana feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
50 weeks |
Aug 5, 2020 |
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Highlighter tool for PDF files |
21 weeks |
July 15, 2020 |
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Mouse cursor sometimes disappears (Read the discussion) |
11 weeks |
June 24, 2020 |
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Support read aloud of PDF files |
20 weeks |
June 9, 2020 |
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Edge cannot find devices to cast media (Learn more) |
16 weeks |
May 19, 2020 |
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Provide option to keep specific cookies when choosing to clear browsing data on close |
21 weeks |
Apr 7, 2020 |
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Option to set a custom photo as the New Tab Page background photo |
33 weeks |
Apr 7, 2020 |
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Add an option to hide the Bing search bar on the new tab page (Learn more) |
32 weeks |
Mar 31, 2020 |
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Allow the search bar in the new tab page to be configured with other search providers (Learn more) |
32 weeks |
Mar 31, 2020 |
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Provide an option to set a custom URL for a new tab instead of showing the new tab page (Learn more) |
32 weeks |
Mar 31, 2020 |
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Enable sync of installed browser extensions between devices |
19 weeks |
Mar 19. 2020 |
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Some users are unable to access any web page |
3 weeks |
Mar 11, 2020 |
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Favorites sync issues, including sync not working, deleted favorites reappearing, and favorites being duplicated |
13 weeks |
Mar 4, 2020 |
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Provide an option to add a share button to the tool bar |
17 weeks |
Feb 26, 2020 |
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Need for better handling of links when there is more than one profile |
26 weeks |
Feb 21, 2020 |
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Touchpad two-finger scrolling is sometimes triggering a right click instead |
24 weeks |
Feb 21, 2020 |
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Add the ability to change the location for news content on the new tab page |
20 weeks |
Jan 22, 2020 |
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Provide the ability to change the title of tiles on the new tab page |
22 weeks |
Jan 22, 2020 |
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Enable search in the extensions store |
17 weeks |
Dec 19, 2019 |
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The taskbar icon is not updating to the new Microsoft Edge logo |
1 week |
Nov 14, 2019 |
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A round of improvements to scrolling experience, with more (including performance) to come down the line |
12 weeks |
Nov 14, 2019 |
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YouTube.com does not render properly and appears extremely magnified |
1 week |
Nov 4, 2019 |
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Bring the OneNote Web Clipper to the Microsoft Edge extensions store |
4 weeks |
Nov 4, 2019 |
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Improve discoverability of the home button since some users are asking for it. (Join the discussion) |
8 weeks |
October 29, 2019 |
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Microsoft Edge is crashing whenever a new tab is opened from a link |
1 week |
October 22, 2019 |
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Inking for PDF files |
9 weeks |
October 22, 2019 |
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Provide an option to remove the send feedback “smiley” button from the toolbar |
1 week |
October 15, 2019 |
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Show the New Tab Page in dark theme when the browser is in dark theme |
6 weeks |
October 1, 2019 |
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Add the ability to turn off the news feed on the new tab page |
6 weeks |
October 1, 2019 |
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ClickOnce deployment of Windows applications from web pages |
6 weeks |
October 1, 2019 |
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Website elements are being flipped upside down when switching between tabs |
1 week |
September 17, 2019 |
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Sign-in profile picture is not always kept up to date |
4 weeks |
September 17, 2019 |
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“Administrator Mode Detected” error message when opening the browser |
2 weeks |
September 4, 2019 |
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Add a favorites button to the toolbar, for quicker access to favorites |
1 week |
August 29, 2019 |
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Make it easier to share web content with other users and apps |
1 week |
August 29, 2019 |
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Drop down menus in some web pages are not working |
1 week |
August 29, 2019 |
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Add a dark theme to Microsoft Edge |
Addressed before these posts started |
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Build translation capabilities into the browser |
Addressed before these posts started |
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Delete browsing history on exit |
Addressed before these posts started |
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Show favorites bar only on the new tab page |
Addressed before these posts started |
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Bring back reading view |
Addressed before these posts started |
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Sync data with my work or school account |
Addressed before these posts started |
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- MissyQ
iMikeZero Thanks for asking! This feature will be available for Mac, and some users should have it there now. There is no flag to turn them on at this time on any platform, though there were some early reports that some users could adjust unrelated flags to get them.
I'm hoping to have more details about vertical tabs soon, so keep an eye out on these updates! 😄
Missy Quarry (she/her/hers)
Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
iMikeZero wrote:I see that Vertical Tabs show as planned. Are they still coming to Mac as well? I know on Windows you can enable them in flags but the Mac version says it isn't available for my platform.
Vertical tabs can't be enabled with flags, those flags you showed in the screenshot are for something else, that's called ShyUI. on Windows if you press F11 you will get a rich fullscreen view where you can access your tabs and everything.
Vertical tabs is enabled/disabled remotely, user can't control it.
you can only choose whether you want to see its button on the toolbar or not (if you have it)
edge://settings/appearance
here you see that no matter whether those flags are enabled or disabled, I still have vertical tabs.
- MissyQ
tistou I am confident I have mentioned this to you or someone else in these posts in the past, but I cannot find it now. Well, then! This feature is available under a policy for system admins.
Missy Quarry (she/her/hers)
Community Manager - Microsoft Edge- Spoiler
MissyQ wrote:tistou I am confident I have mentioned this to you or someone else in these posts in the past, but I cannot find it now. Well, then! This feature is available under a policy for system admins.
Missy Quarry (she/her/hers)
Community Manager - Microsoft EdgeHi,
I've tried this policy and unfortunately, it's not easy to use as it requires an MDM or Windows server to be applied to the client, so user can't simply install group policy files on their computer and modify that policy.
this policy along with 17 other policies, are the rare ones that strictly need this requirement.
so it'd really be helpful if Edge team added this to the Edge settings to be usable for regular users.
Thank you
- Amazing! I just saw the "Text note" feature on my win10 tablet! And it works well for both English and Chinese! Thanks to the developers!
- Anyone who can tell me the definition of "Summer"?
zuxuan_lin wrote:
Anyone who can tell me the definition of "Summer"?I can tell you that.
on planet Earth, In the Northern Hemisphere, summer takes place from the summer solstice (usually June 21) until the autumnal equinox (typically Sept. 21).
Summer in the Southern Hemisphere typically takes place between Dec. 22 and March 20.
HotCakeX but that's only on planet Earth. Maybe the developers live on Mars where seasons are way longer.
I am wondering is there any plan to make Microsoft Edge touch friendly?
We have report where users who are using Windows on tablet (like tablet mode) are not able to interact with menus easily, because icons are small and not touch friendly.
Expected result would be like when device is in tablet mode, it shows larger icon or have ability to set bigger icons in settings.
I asked users to file the issue through Feedback option, I am wondering is it also in your radar?
- Yes. Touch Screen adjustments are quite important. Using Windows as a tablet basically means Edge is going to very difficult.
- Any updates for history sync across multiple devices? It's said "Summer" for a while now, and we're definitely past the threshold of summer at this point
MissyQ
Ok here we go again:A new release and all the problems are still there, after almost 1.5 years of reporting..
- Middle click mouse button on tabs bar to open a new tab.
- Drag a tab to the favorites bar to quickly add it there.
- Dark Mode for PDFs reading specially if the pages are scanned.
- Move the "Force Dark Mode for Web Contents" from "Flags" to "Appearance" in Settings and let us customize the websites that we want to enable or disable it on them.
- Everything in my PC is in dark mode, even the "Force Dark Mode for Web Contents"
But somehow every time I open Edge I get this white page for a few seconds that blinds me for like a minute... and every new page I open it loads in white page until the page opens.. and if the website or my connection is slow then that stupid useless white loading screen stays for longer and I have to look away until it's done loading............- When everything is using dark mode and "Force Dark Mode for Web Contents" is enabled, All icons and buttons turns to dark grey which are almost not visible at all!
https://imgur.com/ICpYsDC-"Ask users if they want to close all tabs when they close a browser window"
Why this isn't added yet????-And when is this going to be fixed so I can actually move to Edge?????
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/importing-firefox-history-amp-passwords/m-p/1399029#M30732-And where is the History Sync ??????
You promised almost a year ago that this will release this summer which is already over now, not to mention that you promise last year to add it in the first official stable build back in Jan 2020.. Don't make promises you can't keep.
I mean what's even changed in these new releases when nothing is actually added or fixed ?????I'll keep sending this feedback until these are added/fixed since you almost never do anything at all from what we report or request.
Omar-Os wrote:- Drag a tab to the favorites bar to quickly add it there.
While it's not obvious and it took awhile before I found it, if you put the pointer over the 'lock' icon at the beginning of the address bar in a tab, then click and hold and drag, you will see you have 'lifted' the tab title and URL and you can drop the page onto the favourites bar and have that appear as a favourite there. If you drag it over a folder on the favourites bar, it will make the new favourite appear in that folder. If you drag it over a folder and hover for a moment, then the folder dropdown menu will open, and you can carry on dragging to release the new favourite exactly where you want in the list, or in a sub-folder etc.
- Interesting. I hope they also add the ability to use tabs to add to the favorite bar. That would be a lot more intuitive.
Omar-Os wrote:I mean what's even changed in these new releases when nothing is actually added or fixed ?????
your answer is this:
Dev channel update to 87.0.664.8 is live - Microsoft Tech Community
Good stuff, thank you!
by the way, could you please let the team know about this,
now that we can install Chrome themes on Edge, I think now we need a separate page such as edge://extensions/ but for themes to view all of our installed themes and to be able to delete/enable/disable any of them.
an internal Edge page like: edge://themes/
at the moment, it is possible to install multiple themes on Edge but that keeps the previously installed themes in the browser and won't remove them, neither does it give any option to the user to remove any non-active themes. the files still reside in the browser directory.
- MissyQ
HotCakeX I don't have any themes myself. Do they not appear on the edge://downloads page? If they don't, I agree, a space for being able to uninstall them fully is a great idea. Remember to submit the feedback through the browser, let me know when you do so that I can share it with the team. :3
Missy Quarry (she/her/hers)
Community Manager - Microsoft EdgeI actually did it, 7 months ago
here explained with pictures that why it's needed, nothing has changed since then, still same behavior.
I will just send another feedback now and put the title of that post along with a link to it in the feedback.
Thanks again!
