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Top feedback summary for September 17
Note: This is no longer the most recent top feedback summary. You can always find the latest at https://aka.ms/MSEdgeTopFeedback.
Hey everyone, here is this week’s update to the top feedback list. Today I’d like to call out two topics which have been addressed:
- We fixed a bug where some website consent was being flipped upside down after switching tabs. The issue was with HTML <canvas> elements, and led to some amusing outcomes like upside down Bing maps.
- We’ve also addressed reports that the sign-in profile picture can become stale, not updating in Microsoft Edge when it’s updated on your MSA profile. This should be resolved now, and you should see profile picture updates within a day.
Thanks for all the great feedback, and do keep it coming!
Here is the updated list of top feedback:
|
Status |
Feedback |
On this list for |
|
Addressed |
Website elements are being flipped upside down when switching between tabs |
1 week |
|
Addressed |
Sign-in profile picture is not always kept up to date |
4 weeks |
|
Planned for September |
Show the New Tab Page in dark theme when the browser is in dark theme |
4 weeks |
|
Planned for September |
Add the ability to turn off the news feed on the new tab page |
4 weeks |
|
Planned for September |
Provide an option to prevent auto-play of video and audio when you open a website |
4 weeks |
|
Planned for September |
A round of improvements to scrolling experience, with more (including performance) to come down the line |
4 weeks |
|
Planned for October |
Inking for PDF files |
4 weeks |
|
Planned for October |
Need for better handling of links when there is more than one profile |
4 weeks |
|
Planned for October |
Option to set a custom photo as the New Tab Page background photo |
4 weeks |
|
Planned for October |
ClickOnce deployment of Windows applications from web pages |
4 weeks |
|
Planned for November |
Enable search in the extensions store |
4 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Support mouse gestures for common actions like navigation and tab close |
New! |
|
Under Review |
Provide a transparent theme for the browser frame |
New! |
|
Under Review |
Add the ability to change the location for news content on the new tab page |
2 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. |
2 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Touchpad two-finger scrolling is sometimes triggering a right click instead |
2 weeks |
|
Under Review |
The address bar and its text are too big, and should be smaller like Chrome |
2 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Add an option to hide the Bing search bar on the new tab page |
4 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Allow the search bar in the new tab page to be configured with other search providers |
4 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Provide the ability to change the title of tiles on the new tab page |
4 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Bring the tab set aside feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
4 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Bring the tab preview feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
4 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Bring the reading list feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
4 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Bring the Ask Cortana feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
4 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Provide an option to set a custom URL for a new tab instead of showing the new tab page |
4 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Update the user interface with the Fluent Design System |
4 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Make tabs more square and less rounded, like the current version of Microsoft Edge |
4 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Support themes from the Chrome Web Store |
4 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Allow sign-in to the browser with a Google account |
4 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Provide different options for sorting favorites
|
4 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files |
4 weeks |
|
Quality Area |
Bring more extensions to the extensions store |
2 weeks |
|
Quality Area |
Edge should use less memory than it does |
4 weeks |
|
Quality Area |
Edge should use less CPU than it does |
4 weeks |
|
Quality Area |
Scrolling should feel smoother for web pages |
4 weeks |
|
Quality Area |
Scrolling should feel smoother for PDF files |
4 weeks |
|
Quality Area |
Update does not always work reliably |
4 weeks |
Definitions:
Addressed – Feedback is addressed in current Canary builds.
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.
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Hi David Rubino
The tab preview of the old Edge is listed in the "top feedback summary". I'd like to know if the tab preview of IE - by mouseover in the taskbar of Windows - is included in this. If not, would you please add it to the list? It was a very helpful feature of IE. Thank you!
Regards, Chris
Link to the feedback about this feauture: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Tab-preview-in-taskbar/m-p/497854Probably, this is not the right place to communicate a known issue. I beg your pardon in advance.
Watching AT&T (ex DirectvNow.com) there's a problem with subtitles.
Whites stripes appear instead of text and if I tinker on it then the AT&T App Crash.
Thank you.
Edge (Chromium propelled) is the greatest innovation Win10, MS and your team could add to This OS.Stefania
David Rubino wrote:- We’ve also addressed reports that the sign-in profile picture can become stale, not updating in Microsoft Edge when it’s updated on your MSA profile. This should be resolved now, and you should see profile picture updates within a day.
Can I get a clarification on this setting below? So, the MSA profile picture always overrides any choice the Edge user has made: if so, why is custom image picker (image below) even available in Edge if a MSA profile picture exists?
I've used that custom image picker in Edge and that new image doesn't become my MSA profile picture. So why have the picker in Edge for users logged in with MSA accounts with pictures? Within a few hours, any selected image automatically resets back to the MSA profile picture.
So you have this cycle of MSA profile picture exists, Edge user signs in with MSA and overrides MSA profile picture temporarily (why is that allowed?), and then Edge, within hours, resets it back to the MSA profile picture. Switch the image in Edge -> hours later, it's overridden with your MSA profile picture -> switch image in Edge -> hours later, it's overridden with your MSA profile picture.
MSA = Microsoft Account.
Or is this due to be removed soon?
- Well Google Chrome has the same behaviour. It lets you use your Google account's picture or another one.
- David I've posted about quite a few issues here (check my profile) but only 1 or 2 have any comment from a Microsoft employee. Is there a way yous can let us know that someone on the Edge team has actually read our feedback? The Feedback Hub in Windows 10 puts something like "We have read your piece of feedback". It would be nice to know that people on the Edge team have actually read the feedback/issue reports
I never see that in the Feedback Hub. In fact, the Feedback Hub is the worst. Generally, GitHub is my preferred method of providing feedback.
pneenkoalabear wrote:I never see that in the Feedback Hub. In fact, the Feedback Hub is the worst. Generally, GitHub is my preferred method of providing feedback.
I know that Feedback Hub and Github are both for Microsoft, but Github is not used mostly for feedbacks, and it only covers open source programs. Windows however is not open source, Feedback hub plays a great role in Windows insider program. I can't imagine Insider program without Feedback hub app, a place to post bugs and the app can record and allow us to recreate the problem to attach the diagnostic to the Feedback.
also now Feedback Hub app offers language translation so users with other main language than English can help translate new Windows feature texts to their own language, or fix a translation error.
David Rubino please and pretty please, bring these on!!!
- Bring the tab set aside feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge
- Bring the tab preview feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge
- Bring the reading list feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge- Why do you need reading list? Why not use bookmarks/favourites?
pneenkoalabear wrote:
Why do you need reading list? Why not use bookmarks/favourites?Reading List saves articles offline so that you can read them on the move. So, if you read something interesting on your laptop at home, you can add it to the reading list and continue reading it when you’re on the train, even without an internet connection.
When logged into a Microsoft account it also means that you can sync your Reading List to other Windows 10 devices, such as a Windows 10 Mobile, so you can read it on the move too.
I opened 3 support questions on the Enterprise board, but none of them have received a reply from your Dev Team. Can somebody look at them and provide some feedback please?
For Enterprise use, it would be nice if most settings could be controlled by GPO. There are some missing settings that we really want to lock down, or at least set a default for.
Nice to see the bug is fixed when quickly scrolling between Favourite folders, it now renders correctly, but the drop shadow is very strong. Can you turn it down a bit please?
What about the lack of PDF viewer buttons? Can you at least replicate those in Edge? Can you also add a text select mode please, this is a must for Enterprise.
+1 for blue InPrivate button, its hard to see the difference between Dark Mode and InPrivate
Hi Tom_Fox, We are trying to find the answers to your questions. I expect to hear back from some of the experts today. Thanks - Elliot
David Rubino wrote:Hey everyone, here is this week’s update to the top feedback list. Today I’d like to call out two topics which have been addressed:
Thanks for all the great feedback, and do keep it coming!
Here is the updated list of top feedback:
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.
2 weeks
Definitions:
Addressed – Feedback is addressed in current Canary builds.
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.
I vote "enable it by default" .
Dennis5mile
- David Rubino
Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files
99% of download files are used only onceHi Kiven, this already exists in the latest builds of Microsoft Edge. You can open up edge://settings/downloads, and turn on Ask where to save each file before downloading.
Thanks - Elliot
Still haven't even added middle-click on a favorite in a menu leaving the menu open while opening the favorited page in a background tab (like in IE, EdgeHTML Edge and Firefox) to the 'Under Review'.
I give up. If I remember I'll come back and look in 6 months.
Can the edge team please make the InPrivate icon look like how it was in old edge and internet explorer by making it blue? It's more appealing and less dull if it was like how old edge and internet explorer was like.
goodddayy99 wrote:Can the edge team please make the InPrivate icon look like how it was in old edge and internet explorer by making it blue? It's more appealing and less dull if it was like how old edge and internet explorer was like.
I wish it was possible to create multiple InPrivate sessions, each session separate from the others, so we could use different logins in websites without them communicating with each other. each InPrivate mode session could have a different color. blue, purple, green etc.
there are extensions that manage logins and sessions but it would be great to build this into the browser. it's not gonna make it heavy or anything, the technology is already there, just needs a little modification.
all the tabs inside an InPrivate window would be part of the same session and share cookies but different InPrivate windows would not be able to communicate with each other and each would have separate sessions and cookies.
- Yeah...Right.
- And it also makes more sense. incognito windows are per profile and are NOT another profile unlike guest mode.
Is there any news about the "under review" entries? they constitute the majority of the entries in this list and they are the most important ones as well.
the problems that are important and missing from the list:
1. when trying to print a webpage from the Reading View mode, it only shows 1 page available for print.
2. A/B testing is confusing, please consider giving all users in the same channel equal access to the features, just like Google Chrome Canary, beta etc.
3. don't add Google sign-in unless Google First adds Microsoft sign in to their Chrome browser.
- I think they should add google sign-in, just because there are many people using google account.
- "I think they should add google sign-in, just because there are many people using google account." You can of course create a Microsoft account using your gmail account, but it will still be a Microsoft account. I think people are expecting to be able to use their Google account without creating a Microsoft account, but the issue with this request is user expectations. ie. If you allow a Google sign in, are users going to expect favourites to be synced with Google Chrome? Is that even possible?
"2. A/B testing is confusing, please consider giving all users in the same channel equal access to the features, just like Google Chrome Canary, beta etc."
The worst part is when you have multiple installs on the same user account and you get a different set of features on each install! I have Open Tabs sync on two of my test systems but I still don't have it on my primary system -- all the same user account, all the same Edge Canary version. Argh!
seancorfield, HotCakeX, I understand the frustration, especially at a time when we are still rolling out new features fairly often. However, we need to be able to look at the statistics in as unbiased way as possible. We always want to balance the introduction of a new feature, with the continuing quality of the main browsing experience. Now that we have a Beta channel, you can set that as your main browser and have the same experience across all of your devices. The trade-off is that you won't see the latest features until they have made their way up into that branch. Thanks - Elliot
