Top feedback summary for September 10

Another useful feature would be to allow us to target browser profile in which links open. For example - I have Personal and Work profiles. Personal has extensions and stuff like music playlists , while work is purely for work systems. When clicking on a link from an email for example I'd like to target my work profile. Ideally this should be done via a selector (similar to the default app selector in Win10), or have the ability to set a profile as the ultimate 'default' browser (eg on my work machine I'd set my work profile as that).

David Rubino 

Still no entry for adding middle-button on a favorite in the favorites bar menus or the button menu opening the favorite in a background tab but leaving the menu open so more favorites can be opened at the same time without having to re-open and re-navigate through the menus for each. Which EdgeHTML Edge, Internet Explorer and Firefox all support, but Chromium Edge, like Google Chrome doesn't. (Or doesn't have to be middle-click, but something easily done with one hand, which CTRL-clicking isn't - I'm disabled and do most of my browsing semi-reclined with the laptop off to my right side, doing pretty much everything but writing the odd post or email just with my right-hand on trackpad and keyboard where necessary.)

As it's a function I've been using heavily many times a day every day since round about 2005, I won't use a browser that doesn't support it.

As it hasn't even entered the nebulous, no-date Under Review list despite there being a thread about it from months ago, and my raising it in the previous Top Feedback and dev release threads with supportive replies from some others, clearly you either think it's impossible for some underlying reason in the Chromium base, or you aren't prepared to look at it for at least several months. As I'm not going to use Chrome Edge - Canary, Dev or final release - until/unless this is addressed, it's clearly a waste of my time installing and checking each Canary and Dev release to see if this feature has been addressed (and that is all I do with each release: check this one thing, as without it I won't be using it); as it's also a waste of your time reading my repeated posts about it. I shall therefore give up on the Cgromium Edge testing, and maybe come back in three months to see if it's even made the under review list.

If, in fact, you already know you are not going to implement it for whatever reason, like something in the  Chromium base, I would really appreciate it if you would just say so. My disability means that all computer use costs me pain, even reading, let alone writing; so saving me useless checking for the appearance of this feature if in fact you KNOW it's not going to appear by just honestly saying so now will actually give me a better feeling towards MIcrosoft than eventually finding I've been suffering pain for no purpose while you maintain a stony silence.

A feature request from the public sector 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 wouldnt have to depend on the 3rd party application Adobe Reader for this function and could fully leverage Edge for PDFs instead. David Rubino 

David Rubino 

1. Google integration - No thanks. I value privacy - not Google profit

2. Fix the favorites icon

3. Add these buttons to the favorites menu 

3. prevent mouse button hijacking

4. Fix Epub

David Rubino  I am happy to see PDF improvements coming.  One area I feel like Microsoft can support slightly better is the PDF review / annotation side.  I know PDF is adobes standard but I will say working in Legal PDFs are big for our Firm.  The previous EDGE support for PDFs was good but lacking a few keys comment / markup standards that are widely used by apps all over different platforms.  I appreciate what was there (in Old Edge), but If I could request anything its the ability to actually create / update the Table of Contents / "Bookmarks" feature of PDFs along with your standard commenting options in addition to pencil, (Shapes, Text Boxes, Sticky notes, etc.)  The bookmarking of PDFs is such a widely used feature, please consider support for adding / modifying TOC / Bookmarks.

While you can do these things with full separate apps (non Microsoft), they are few and lacking in the Touch / Ink world of Modern Windows Devices, and I feel like Microsoft can polish this area and make working with PDFs in windows a bit more functional then previous implementation.

David Rubino thank you for putting "Bring the tab set aside feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge" under review. But please make it happen!!!

And special THANKS for disabling video and audio by default!

David Rubino Is anyone there who actually like the epub function in the current edge? I really love it and I am really upset that it will not show up in the new edge. It gives great sense of unity when you are reading and browsing. 

Hi David Rubino

I see and have seen for weeks that improvements for smoother scrolling are in the works. As very visual person I appreciate that and am looking forward to it.

However, as Surface Pro (4) user I'd rather see enhancements in the way gestures need to be used. I use swiping to the right (command "back") a lot. The "old" Edge was a joy to use with gestures and rather efficient, for going back it was merely a flip with a finger. With the new Edge it feels like having to take a trip around the globe 

Is this rooted deeply in Chromium or can the Edge team do something about this (if it chooses to)?

David Rubino 

I had the thought, and although this is more of a question for the Cortana team, I'm still throwing it out here.

What if we could have Cortana actively block cyber attacks in real time, protect your data, run diagnostics, and send the data back to Microsoft for them to address. Then Edge could dethrone Chrome as the most secure browser and save users from losing information.

Going one step further, what if with the persons consent, Cortana scans emails and warns them if it is suspicious, if it could be a scam, and if any links or files included in the email were potentially dangerous.

Its just an idea and is probably in the distant future, but it might be a push in the right direction.