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Top 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.
Hi everyone, this week’s update is a quick one. This week we’re highlighting one piece of top feedback that’s been addressed: You can now remove the Send feedback smiley button from the toolbar.
To remove it, just right click on it and choose Hide from toolbar and it will disappear from view. Once it’s gone from the tollbar, you can still find the option by opening the Settings and more (…) menu and choosing Help and feedback. You can click the Send feedback option here to open the feedback window, or you can right click on it and choose Show in toolbar to put the smiley back. And of course you can always use Alt+Shift+I to open the feedback window directly.
While this item just landed on our top feedback list last week, the feature request was not new and like many fixes and improvements we started working on it before it had enough support to be considered “top feedback”.
Here is the full updated list of top feedback:
|
Status |
Feedback |
On this list for |
|
Addressed |
Provide an option to remove the send feedback “smiley” button from the toolbar |
New! |
|
Planned for October |
A round of improvements to scrolling experience, with more (including performance) to come down the line |
8 weeks |
|
Planned for October |
Inking for PDF files |
8 weeks |
|
Planned for October |
Provide the ability to change the title of tiles on the new tab page |
8 weeks |
|
Planned for October |
Need for better handling of links when there is more than one profile |
8 weeks |
|
Planned for October |
Option to set a custom photo as the New Tab Page background photo |
8 weeks |
|
Planned for November |
Enable search in the extensions store |
8 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Bring the OneNote Web Clipper to the Microsoft Edge extensions store |
1 week |
|
Under Review |
Opening a new tab is too slow |
3 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Ask users if they want to close all tabs when they close a browser window |
3 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Support mouse gestures for common actions like navigation and tab close |
4 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Provide a transparent theme for the browser frame |
4 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Add the ability to change the location for news content on the new tab page |
6 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Some users are asking for a home button in Edge. Since we already have one, we could improve discoverability or just enable it by default. |
6 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Touchpad two-finger scrolling is sometimes triggering a right click instead |
6 weeks |
|
Under Review |
The address bar and its text are too big, and should be smaller like Chrome |
6 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Add an option to hide the Bing search bar on the new tab page |
8 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Allow the search bar in the new tab page to be configured with other search providers |
8 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Bring the tab set aside feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
8 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Bring the tab preview feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
8 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Bring the reading list feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
8 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Bring the Ask Cortana feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
8 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Provide an option to set a custom URL for a new tab instead of showing the new tab page |
8 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Update the user interface with the Fluent Design System |
8 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Make tabs more square and less rounded, like the current version of Microsoft Edge |
8 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Support themes from the Chrome Web Store |
8 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Allow sign-in to the browser with a Google account |
8 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Provide different options for sorting favorites |
8 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files |
8 weeks |
|
Quality Area |
Bring more extensions to the extensions store |
6 weeks |
|
Quality Area |
Edge should use less memory than it does |
8 weeks |
|
Quality Area |
Edge should use less CPU than it does |
8 weeks |
|
Quality Area |
Scrolling should feel smoother for web pages |
8 weeks |
|
Quality Area |
Scrolling should feel smoother for PDF files |
8 weeks |
|
Quality Area |
Update does not always work reliably |
8 weeks |
Definitions:
Addressed – Changes to address this feedback are visible to all users in the Canary and Dev channels
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
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.
50 Replies
David Rubino thanks a lot for the tab sync functionality. That was the last bit I was missing to make my edge experience complete. Can I ask for one small improvement though. Would it be possible to see the opened tabs on History page (edge://history/all)? It's quite cumbersome to have to go to the menu to open tab from another device..
What I'm rooting for:
- Native gestures would be amazing. +5
- Fixing the new tab slowness (Settings is oddly a terrible offender; see my tests here) +5
- Changing/removing Bing Search from the home page. Bing isn't the only "secure" search provider.+1
- There has been issues with video playback on certain sites for weeks now. YouTube for instance will work fine, but Spectrum online will break up (looks like a bad satellite connection) - Issue is that it works fine with Google Chrome, so seems to be Edge related.
David Rubino Just another regular "vote" for "Bring the tab set aside feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge" which is the #1 thing I miss from Classic Edge (followed by "Ask Cortana"). When each summary post appears, I look hopefully to see this feature move from "Under Review" to "Planned"!
p.s. I was very happy to see Sync Open Tabs finally appear in Dev on my desktop so now I can pull tabs in from my other two systems -- weirdly, it's still not accessible in Canary on my desktop (while both Dev and Canary on my Mac and my laptop all have this).
- Hi,
I don't have open tabs syncing either,
looks like they haven't made it globally available for everyone yet 😞
Environment friendly feedback - aka recycled since none of it has been done and is blocking for a browser change
1. Google integration - No thanks. I value privacy - not Google profit
2. Fix the favorites icon - it's still the wrong one
3. Add these buttons to the favorites menu
3. prevent mouse button hijacking
4. Fix Epub
Hi,
I believe that screenshot belongs to an old Edge classic version, because on the latest Windows 10, it looks like this:
And about the other buttons (book/reading list/web ink) that you ask to be added to the new Edge, first the Devs must implement the features for them 🙂
Don't get me wrong, I love web ink and those unique buttons on the browser toolbar.
to prevent clutter up there, Edge can put all of the extension icons under on drop-down button
I miss the web inking as well, I tried the "OneNote Web Clipper" and do not think it is as good as the Original Edge integration with OneNote. I bet not enough people use it, but for us Surface Pro users I bet the acceptance rate is a lot higher.
I'm hoping that the Web Clipper add-on is just a stepping stone to the 'full integration'. We can snag a clip without needing the extension 😞
- Is epub really needed? It doesn't seem to be major enough like PDF is to warrant putting it in. You could always still install a dedicated epub reader.
- Glad to see that sync got updated this week for open tabs. Don't allow google accounts to be integrated into the browser because it's completely unnecessary. Also the InPrivate button needs to be painted blue to match edgehtml and internet explorer.
- I want it painted the same as my system-wide Windows Accent Color, actually.
Thanks for the update,
Is there Any ETA for when the Edge developer team can make their decisions about the "Under Review" feature requests? most of them are very important to make the Edge browser different than Google chrome and unique.
The Acrylic/Transparent theme, Fluent language design for browser UI, Provide run/open/save/save-as for downloaded files etc.
.
Please Don't
1. Integrate the new Edge browser with Google in any way.
2. make the browser address bar smaller like Google chrome.
Please Do
1. make the browser UI Consistent, all the button should be square like the rest of the Microsoft products design.
2. Add Read Aloud for PDFs. currently only available for web pages.
3. Add an ability to auto scroll PDF files. when we are reading an article or book in PDF, the auto scroll would help so we don't need to use our mouse scroll all the time.
- HotCakeX
Can't agree more
Edge is Microsoft Edge, it's not another Google chrome.
BTW David Rubino
Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files- So glad to see "Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files" is officially under review. Well beyond any other feature still on the Under Review list, this is my highest remaining priority. If you're looking for reasons to prioritize or decide to do/not do some of those:
For users like me who always want to be asked where to save, this is effectively a necessity for a file we only want long to run it or read it once. Otherwise, we have to pick a location for a file we don't want to keep and then recall where we saved the file (or look it up through Edge) to navigate back there to delete it. For temp files like this, we need to preserve this long-standing capability from IE and Edge. Please.
Ideally, when a user selects to starts to a download in Edge, before the user has selected a save location, the system should start immediately downloading to a temp directory. If the user doesn't select a destination it either stays in the temp folder or moves to Downloads (I don't care which) and copy it from Temp to final destination when download completes, but if the user selects Open or Run, then it never leaves the temp folder saving both the step to select a Save location and avoiding clogging up a user folder. Then, it should either be deleted right away or following the standard clean-up processes for files in the Temp directory.
This would make using Edge much easier. That it's currently missing this feature is the main reason I still switch back to the old Edge when I know I'll be doing file downloading, but more often than not, I stay in the new browser and just grumble that I can't open or run directly (because changing browsers just to open or run a file is an even bigger hassle), so if you're looking at telemetry data, at least for me, it won't accurately reflect my preferences.
HotCakeX, please stop asking for squared design. See where Microsoft as a whole is heading towards. The UI is consistent with new design choices Microsoft is making throughout their products.
A lot of folks would disagree with you (myself included) but more importantly we shouldn't be telling others not to share the feedback they have on a post dedicated for feedback.
