Note: This is no longer the most recent top feedback summary. You can always find the latest at https://aka.ms/MSEdgeTopFeedback. Hey everyone, we have a lot to cover today! First, after some consideration we believe the feedback requesting a home button has been addressed. In part this is because a home button option has always been a part of Chromium and has been available in the insider channels from the start. To enable this option, just open the Settings and more (…) menu, choose Settings, and then choose Appearance from the left pane. Toggle the Show home button option and specify which page you’d like to open. However, we wouldn’t get this feedback if we didn’t have some kind of discoverability issue. Rather than just turn the home button on by default, we think most users who want a home button in the new Microsoft Edge were those accustomed to having one in their existing browser. For these users, we now import the home button setting from other browsers when you install an insider channel. Those who used to have the home button will have the home button in Microsoft Edge by default. Of course we can’t be sure we’re thinking about all possible angles here, so we’d like to hear from you on this topic. We’ve started a discussion thread here in the forum and we’d love to hear from you. We have heard similar feedback about the need for the ability to sort favorites by name. Like the home button, this option is available, but it may be hard to find. To sort favorites, open the Settings and more (…) menu and choose Favorites then Manage favorites. Use the left pane to find a folder of favorites you’d like to sort. Then right click on any empty space around the list of favorites, on the right side of the screen. You will see an option Sort by name in the menu that appears. We are planning to make this more discoverable, but we’d like to get your ideas first. We’ve posted a discussion thread and invite you to stop by and join the conversation. Another topic we’d like to discuss with you are some of the download options we’ve seen requested a lot, such as “run”, “open”, “save”, and “save as”. We’ve got some questions for the community as we decide how to approach this feedback. If you’re interested in this topic, please head over to the discussion thread and let us know what you think. Also, we’ve heard the request for theme support, and specifically to support themes from the Chrome Web Store, just like we support traditional extensions. We’re happy to let you know that we are working on this. It’s not without challenges though, so we don’t know yet when we’ll be able to get it up and running. In the meantime, we’d love to talk to you about how you think about themes and what you use them for. We’ve started a discussion thread on this topic. Stop by and help shape the future of this feature area! Finally, this week we have two new top requests and two schedule delays: With the addition of our PDF inking feature, we’re now seeing more of you request ink support for web pages. We’re seeing an increase in requests for a share button on the toolbar We will be delivering the ability to customize tile names on the new tab page, but we’re running a bit late and this is now planned for November instead of October. We’ve been making some improvements to scrolling and have more on the way. We’re waiting for the next round of these to be fully deployed to the Canary and Dev channels before calling this area “addressed” and writing up a summary of what we’ve done. Look for this in November instead of October as previously planned. Here is the full updated list of top feedback: Status Feedback On this list for Addressed (Join the discussion) Improve discoverability of the home button since some users are asking for it. 8 weeks Planned for November (Previously October) A round of improvements to scrolling experience, with more (including performance) to come down the line 10 weeks Planned for November (Previously October) Provide the ability to change the title of tiles on the new tab page 10 weeks Planned for November Need for better handling of links when there is more than one profile 10 weeks Planned for November Enable search in the extensions store 10 weeks Planned Option to set a custom photo as the New Tab Page background photo 10 weeks Planned (Join the discussion) Support themes from the Chrome Web Store 10 weeks Planned (Join the discussion) Provide different options for sorting favorites 10 weeks In Discussion (Join the discussion) Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files 10 weeks Under Review Provide an option to add a share button to the tool bar New! Under Review Add the ability to ink on web pages New! Under Review Bring the OneNote Web Clipper to the Microsoft Edge extensions store 3 weeks Under Review Opening a new tab is too slow 5 weeks Under Review Ask users if they want to close all tabs when they close a browser window 5 weeks Under Review Support mouse gestures for common actions like navigation and tab close 6 weeks Under Review Provide a transparent theme for the browser frame 6 weeks Under Review Add the ability to change the location for news content on the new tab page 8 weeks Under Review Touchpad two-finger scrolling is sometimes triggering a right click instead 8 weeks Under Review The address bar and its text are too big, and should be smaller like Chrome 8 weeks Under Review Add an option to hide the Bing search bar on the new tab page 10 weeks Under Review Allow the search bar in the new tab page to be configured with other search providers 10 weeks Under Review Bring the tab set aside feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge 10 weeks Under Review Bring the tab preview feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge 10 weeks Under Review Bring the reading list feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge 10 weeks Under Review Bring the Ask Cortana feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge 10 weeks Under Review Provide an option to set a custom URL for a new tab instead of showing the new tab page 10 weeks Under Review Update the user interface with the Fluent Design System 10 weeks Under Review Make tabs more square and less rounded, like the current version of Microsoft Edge 10 weeks Under Review Allow sign-in to the browser with a Google account 10 weeks Quality Area Bring more extensions to the extensions store 7 weeks Quality Area Edge should use less memory than it does 8 weeks Quality Area Edge should use less CPU than it does 10 weeks Quality Area Scrolling should feel smoother for web pages 10 weeks Quality Area Scrolling should feel smoother for PDF files 10 weeks Quality Area Update does not always work reliably 10 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 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. 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.

Yes please add Inking for web pages in addition to the PDF inking and make both of them feature rich just like Edge classic and add OneNote integration. Also please Keep Microsoft Edge insider Un-goolged. don't integrate any google related services such as sync and whatnot into this browser. you've spent lots of times scrapping all those services so it doesn't make sense to put them back in again. also there is absolutely no need to use google accounts. Microsoft accounts are better also anyone with google account can sign up for a Microsoft account without the need to create a new email. also because of Windows 10, Xbox and many many more useful products and services of Microsoft, people have more accounts in here than on google.google is literally a data mining company, even if someone doesn't use google sync and use Microsoft sync, the simple fact that google services are inside browser is worrying. Also give more priority to adding Transparent and Acrylic style to Microsoft Edge insider. it's better than chrome themes and it's unique. Last thing:Show browser tabs and address bar when Edge insider is in full screen, just like in Edge classic.google chrome doesn't have this feature and it's a big disadvantage for it.

Feature Request: This feature request is highly needed for the Public Sector for Federal Agencies, which is the ability to digitally sign a pdf in Edge with a Smart Card. If the function was added to digitally sign a PDF with a Smart Card, many federal agencies wouldn't have to depend on the 3rd party application Adobe Reader for this one specific function and could fully leverage Edge for PDFs instead. @David Rubino @josh_bodner

RobWuijster RobWuijster wrote:David Rubino Can someone at the team have a look what's going on for the Instagram help pages.I've reported this since the beginning, but it's still not working in this release.Chrome just works for some reason.What is happening is that the main help menu links result in blank pages, not in a new set of choices.It's a sliding menu, probably some script is not working. Tried with and without any extensions, same result.Thanks! Yes, nice catch! Edge insider Canary Version 80.0.317.1 (Official build) canary (64-bit)has this problem too. Instagram help URL for reference: https://help.instagram.com/ Links circled with purple line are where the bug is happening In Edge insider, when clicking on the arrows in the purple area, they will be opened in a new tab and will show duplicate content.in Google chrome stable, they will open up normally, which is as you mentioned, a sliding menu that leads to more options. Hope it gets fixed.

Alex Bachinskiy Alex Bachinskiy wrote:David Rubino why is set aside period is 10 weeks. It was way closer before. We NEED IT!The 3rd column on the right shows how long that feature suggestion has been on the list for. it doesn't show how long it takes for that feature to be implemented 🙂

matsmcp matsmcp wrote:josh_bodner 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 profit2. Fix the favorites icon - it's still the wrong one3. Add these buttons to the favorites menu 3. prevent mouse button hijacking4. Fix Epub We already talked about this that the favorites button is the correct one. you need to update your Windows 10 to see the changes. This is the correct favorites button, not the one in your screenshot, it belongs to very old Edge classic version Epub also doesn't need fixing, they already said it's going to be dropped from classic Edge and there is no plan to even add it to the new Edge. About mouse hijacking, do you have any websites as an example that actually hijack your mouse?

Forum Discussion

David Rubino

Iron Contributor

Oct 29, 2019

Top feedback summary for October 29

Note: This is no longer the most recent top feedback summary. You can always find the latest at https://aka.ms/MSEdgeTopFeedback.

Hey everyone, we have a lot to cover today!

First, after some consideration we believe the feedback requesting a home button has been addressed. In part this is because a home button option has always been a part of Chromium and has been available in the insider channels from the start. To enable this option, just open the Settings and more (…) menu, choose Settings, and then choose Appearance from the left pane. Toggle the Show home button option and specify which page you’d like to open. However, we wouldn’t get this feedback if we didn’t have some kind of discoverability issue. Rather than just turn the home button on by default, we think most users who want a home button in the new Microsoft Edge were those accustomed to having one in their existing browser. For these users, we now import the home button setting from other browsers when you install an insider channel. Those who used to have the home button will have the home button in Microsoft Edge by default. Of course we can’t be sure we’re thinking about all possible angles here, so we’d like to hear from you on this topic. We’ve started a discussion thread here in the forum and we’d love to hear from you.

We have heard similar feedback about the need for the ability to sort favorites by name. Like the home button, this option is available, but it may be hard to find. To sort favorites, open the Settings and more (…) menu and choose Favorites then Manage favorites. Use the left pane to find a folder of favorites you’d like to sort. Then right click on any empty space around the list of favorites, on the right side of the screen. You will see an option Sort by name in the menu that appears. We are planning to make this more discoverable, but we’d like to get your ideas first. We’ve posted a discussion thread and invite you to stop by and join the conversation.

Another topic we’d like to discuss with you are some of the download options we’ve seen requested a lot, such as “run”, “open”, “save”, and “save as”. We’ve got some questions for the community as we decide how to approach this feedback. If you’re interested in this topic, please head over to the discussion thread and let us know what you think.

Also, we’ve heard the request for theme support, and specifically to support themes from the Chrome Web Store, just like we support traditional extensions. We’re happy to let you know that we are working on this. It’s not without challenges though, so we don’t know yet when we’ll be able to get it up and running. In the meantime, we’d love to talk to you about how you think about themes and what you use them for. We’ve started a discussion thread on this topic. Stop by and help shape the future of this feature area!

Finally, this week we have two new top requests and two schedule delays:

With the addition of our PDF inking feature, we’re now seeing more of you request ink support for web pages.
We’re seeing an increase in requests for a share button on the toolbar
We will be delivering the ability to customize tile names on the new tab page, but we’re running a bit late and this is now planned for November instead of October.
We’ve been making some improvements to scrolling and have more on the way. We’re waiting for the next round of these to be fully deployed to the Canary and Dev channels before calling this area “addressed” and writing up a summary of what we’ve done. Look for this in November instead of October as previously planned.

Here is the full updated list of top feedback:

Status	Feedback	On this list for
Addressed (Join the discussion)	Improve discoverability of the home button since some users are asking for it.	8 weeks
Planned for November (Previously October)	A round of improvements to scrolling experience, with more (including performance) to come down the line	10 weeks
Planned for November (Previously October)	Provide the ability to change the title of tiles on the new tab page	10 weeks
Planned for November	Need for better handling of links when there is more than one profile	10 weeks
Planned for November	Enable search in the extensions store	10 weeks
Planned	Option to set a custom photo as the New Tab Page background photo	10 weeks
Planned (Join the discussion)	Support themes from the Chrome Web Store	10 weeks
Planned (Join the discussion)	Provide different options for sorting favorites	10 weeks
In Discussion (Join the discussion)	Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files	10 weeks
Under Review	Provide an option to add a share button to the tool bar	New!
Under Review	Add the ability to ink on web pages	New!
Under Review	Bring the OneNote Web Clipper to the Microsoft Edge extensions store	3 weeks
Under Review	Opening a new tab is too slow	5 weeks
Under Review	Ask users if they want to close all tabs when they close a browser window	5 weeks
Under Review	Support mouse gestures for common actions like navigation and tab close	6 weeks
Under Review	Provide a transparent theme for the browser frame	6 weeks
Under Review	Add the ability to change the location for news content on the new tab page	8 weeks
Under Review	Touchpad two-finger scrolling is sometimes triggering a right click instead	8 weeks
Under Review	The address bar and its text are too big, and should be smaller like Chrome	8 weeks
Under Review	Add an option to hide the Bing search bar on the new tab page	10 weeks
Under Review	Allow the search bar in the new tab page to be configured with other search providers	10 weeks
Under Review	Bring the tab set aside feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge	10 weeks
Under Review	Bring the tab preview feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge	10 weeks
Under Review	Bring the reading list feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge	10 weeks
Under Review	Bring the Ask Cortana feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge	10 weeks
Under Review	Provide an option to set a custom URL for a new tab instead of showing the new tab page	10 weeks
Under Review	Update the user interface with the Fluent Design System	10 weeks
Under Review	Make tabs more square and less rounded, like the current version of Microsoft Edge	10 weeks
Under Review	Allow sign-in to the browser with a Google account	10 weeks
Quality Area	Bring more extensions to the extensions store	7 weeks
Quality Area	Edge should use less memory than it does	8 weeks
Quality Area	Edge should use less CPU than it does	10 weeks
Quality Area	Scrolling should feel smoother for web pages	10 weeks
Quality Area	Scrolling should feel smoother for PDF files	10 weeks
Quality Area	Update does not always work reliably	10 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

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.

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.

33 Replies

RobWuijster
Iron Contributor
Oct 30, 2019
David Rubino Can someone at the team have a look what's going on for the Instagram help pages.
I've reported this since the beginning, but it's still not working in this release.
Chrome just works for some reason.
What is happening is that the main help menu links result in blank pages, not in a new set of choices.
It's a sliding menu, probably some script is not working. Tried with and without any extensions, same result.

Thanks!
- josh_bodner
  Silver Contributor
  Oct 30, 2019
  RobWuijster when I tried that in today's Canary (318), I got the behavior where it opens a new tab, but on the existing tab, it also performed the sliding behavior correctly. The most important part though? If you go into the F12 Dev Tools and emulate Chrome's UA string, we get the correct behavior! So, Instagram is doing some browser detection and serving up something different in Edge that's not quite working right. I'll ask our developer outreach team if this is something they're tracking already.
  - HotCakeX
    MVP
    Nov 02, 2019
    josh_bodner
    These are the errors I'm getting when trying to navigate through Instagram help page
    https://help.instagram.com/
    Version 80.0.320.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit)
- HotCakeX
  MVP
  Oct 30, 2019
  RobWuijster
  RobWuijster wrote:
  David Rubino Can someone at the team have a look what's going on for the Instagram help pages.
  I've reported this since the beginning, but it's still not working in this release.
  Chrome just works for some reason.
  What is happening is that the main help menu links result in blank pages, not in a new set of choices.
  It's a sliding menu, probably some script is not working. Tried with and without any extensions, same result.
  
  Thanks!
  
  Yes, nice catch!
  
  Edge insider Canary Version 80.0.317.1 (Official build) canary (64-bit)
  has this problem too.
  
  Instagram help URL for reference: https://help.instagram.com/
  
  Links circled with purple line are where the bug is happening
  
  In Edge insider, when clicking on the arrows in the purple area, they will be opened in a new tab and will show duplicate content.
  in Google chrome stable, they will open up normally, which is as you mentioned, a sliding menu that leads to more options.
  
  Hope it gets fixed.
Kiven
Iron Contributor
Oct 30, 2019
David Rubino
I am very happy to see this, you got our voice.
Let's make it perfect!!

Another topic we’d like to discuss with you are some of the download options we’ve seen requested a lot, such as “run”, “open”, “save”, and “save as”. We’ve got some questions for the community as we decide how to approach this feedback. If you’re interested in this topic, please head over to the discussion thread and let us know what you think.
Bdsrev
Iron Contributor
Oct 30, 2019
David RubinoDavid I've 'reported' several issues in this message board but it seems like the Edge team isn't seeing most of my posts, can you please click on my profile and look at all the 'conversations' I've started. I promise it's worth your time (I actually work in software for a living, unfortunately)
eduardobragaxz
Iron Contributor
Oct 30, 2019
I've decided to use the Beta for a week till the next update. It's impossible to use Dev. It freezes all the time opening more than one tab. I've even reinstalled, but it didn't help. The Beta is working fine.
rw1234
Brass Contributor
Oct 29, 2019
I'm glad scrolling now seems to be an area of attention, I look forward to the improvements. Hopefully they will appear early in November. It's been too long!!

I know I keep harping on about specific scrolling issues to be fixed, but please be sure to fix scrolling inconsistencies where:
1. Make scrollable HTML elements (e.g. <div>s with scrollbars) bounce on reaching scroll limit on multitouch trackpad/touchscreen devices. This already applies to main content area, why not scrollable sub-content?
2. Fix scrollbar arrows. They are currently Windows 7 style, not Windows 10 style.
3. Make scrolling buttery-smooth like Classic Edge. Classic Edge has absolutely the best scrolling experience out of platforms. The scrolling in Chromium Edge still has noticeable jumpiness when compared to Classic Edge on same device. (7th Gen Core i3 2.71Ghz, Intel HD Graphics 620).

Especially w/ regard to the scrollable sub-elements, the scrolling behaviour on multitouch devices is inconsistent with Windows 10 UWP apps, Windows 8 apps, macOS, Classic Edge and even Chromium Edge itself. Please make it perfect!!!

If the scrolling behaviour isn't fixed, Progressive Web Apps (e.g. Spotify Web Player) and any apps that make use of WebView2 will seem poorly done/inconsistent.
HotCakeX
MVP
Oct 29, 2019

Yes please add Inking for web pages in addition to the PDF inking and make both of them feature rich just like Edge classic and add OneNote integration.

Also please Keep Microsoft Edge insider Un-goolged. don't integrate any google related services such as sync and whatnot into this browser. you've spent lots of times scrapping all those services so it doesn't make sense to put them back in again. also there is absolutely no need to use google accounts. Microsoft accounts are better also anyone with google account can sign up for a Microsoft account without the need to create a new email. also because of Windows 10, Xbox and many many more useful products and services of Microsoft, people have more accounts in here than on google.
google is literally a data mining company, even if someone doesn't use google sync and use Microsoft sync, the simple fact that google services are inside browser is worrying.

Also give more priority to adding Transparent and Acrylic style to Microsoft Edge insider. it's better than chrome themes and it's unique.

Last thing:
Show browser tabs and address bar when Edge insider is in full screen, just like in Edge classic.
google chrome doesn't have this feature and it's a big disadvantage for it.
Anthony Hart
Brass Contributor
Oct 29, 2019
Feature Request: This feature request is highly needed for the Public Sector for Federal Agencies, which is the ability to digitally sign a pdf in Edge with a Smart Card. If the function was added to digitally sign a PDF with a Smart Card, many federal agencies wouldn't have to depend on the 3rd party application Adobe Reader for this one specific function and could fully leverage Edge for PDFs instead. @David Rubino @josh_bodner
meaty
Copper Contributor
Oct 29, 2019
Is making the InPrivate button blue under review as well? Because that needs to happen because it is in internet explorer and the current edge browser.