Forum Discussion
MicrosoftTop Feedback Summary for September 23
Note: This is no longer the most recent top feedback summary. You can always find the latest at https://aka.ms/MSEdgeTopFeedback.
Hello, Insiders! We have some big news to share today, something y’all have been patiently waiting for, so let us jump right into it. Note: This post is going up before our Dev channel update has been pushed out. That has been delayed and we expect to update our Dev channel tomorrow.
First up, we have two new items being added under Planned this week. Enable customers to pin Favorites menu to the side of the screen has been an ask from users who were used to the favorites management in Edge legacy. We’ve also heard that Some passwords are not saved for some users, and we plan on addressing that. While we don’t have any details for these items right now, you will see info about these first here.
As you may have heard yesterday at Microsoft Ignite, we’re excited to announce that the Dev channel for Edge on Linux will be available next month! We are updating Make Edge available on Linux from Planned to Planned for October.
We’ve had questions about the distribution for Linux once it’s available. For the initial launch, we are supporting Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and OpenSUSE. Starting next month, you will be able to download and install both .deb and .rpm packages from our Microsoft Edge Insider website.
We’re sure you’re curious about what is available with this version of Edge! While we are working to ensure that every feature in our Windows and Mac Dev channels is available in our Linux version, there are a few features that will not be available at launch. Sync (and its related services), read aloud, and differential updates will not be available immediately with Edge on Linux. We are working hard to bring these to users as quickly as possible, while also ensuring it’s done right. Once we know these changes are implemented, you will see them mentioned in Josh’s summary posts. Additionally, if any of this changes before we launch, we will work to ensure y’all are notified.
We continue to shape this browser based on your feedback. Have something you feel would improve your browsing experience? Let us know by submitting feedback directly through the browser via the … menu > Help and feedback > Send feedback (or, if you’re on mobile, by tapping the … button and scrolling to Send feedback).
Here’s the updated list for this week:
|
Status |
Feedback |
On this list for |
|
Planned for September |
Voice search on google.com doesn’t work |
21 weeks |
|
Planned for September (Join the discussion) |
Add the ability to ink on web page content |
47 weeks |
|
Planned for October |
Make Edge available on Linux |
35 weeks |
|
Planned for Summer |
Enable sync of browsing history between devices |
47 weeks |
|
Planned |
Enable customers to pin Favorites menu to the side of the screen |
New! |
|
Planned |
Some passwords are not saved |
New! |
|
Planned |
Add dictionary in PDF |
4 weeks |
|
Planned |
Enable vertical tabs feature |
5 weeks |
|
Planned |
Enable customers to pin sites to Start Menu in Windows |
8 weeks |
|
Planned |
Restore tabs if Edge or the OS is restarted for any reason |
8 weeks |
|
Planned |
Support two-page layout in PDF reader |
14 weeks |
|
Planned |
Edge launches with previous session’s tabs when “On startup” setting is set to “Open a new tab” |
14 weeks |
|
Planned |
Add option to remove previous search terms from the New Tab Page’s search box auto-suggestion list |
15 weeks |
|
Planned |
Add "text notes" feature to PDF files |
19 weeks |
|
Planned |
Some web page fonts are blurry |
20 weeks |
|
Planned |
MSA profile picture is not updating |
24 weeks |
|
Planned |
Allow more top sites on the New Tab Page |
29 weeks |
|
Planned |
Ask users if they want to close all tabs when they close a browser window |
52 weeks |
|
Planned (Join the discussion) |
Bring the tab preview feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
57 weeks |
|
Planned |
Support themes from the Chrome Web Store |
57 weeks |
|
Planned |
Provide an option to prevent auto-play of video and audio when you open a website |
57 weeks |
|
Alternative Planned |
Update the user interface with the Fluent Design System |
57 weeks |
|
In Discussion |
The address bar and its text are too big, and should be smaller like Chrome |
57 weeks |
|
In Discussion |
Bring the tab set aside feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
57 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Edge should respect the default PDF viewer |
5 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Add ability to close tabs via double-click |
24 weeks |
|
Not Planned |
Support mouse gestures for common actions like navigation and tab close |
13 weeks |
|
Not Planned (View the discussion) |
Allow sign-in to the browser with a Google account |
23 weeks |
|
Not planned (See the discussion) |
Bring the reading list feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
35 weeks |
|
Not Planned |
Provide a transparent theme for the browser frame |
43 weeks |
|
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:
|
Bring more extensions to the extensions store |
|
Edge should use less memory than it does |
|
Edge should use less CPU than it does |
|
Scrolling should feel smoother for web pages |
|
Scrolling should feel smoother for PDF files |
|
Opening a new tab is too slow |
|
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:
|
Feedback |
On this list for |
Addressed on |
|
Enable automatic generation of strong passwords |
13 weeks |
Sept 15, 2020 |
|
Enable navigation of PDF files via table of contents |
31 weeks |
Sept 15, 2020 |
|
Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files |
55 weeks |
Sept 9, 2020 |
|
Provide different options for sorting favorites |
51 weeks |
Aug 11, 2020 |
|
Bring the Ask Cortana feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
50 weeks |
Aug 5, 2020 |
|
Highlighter tool for PDF files |
21 weeks |
July 15, 2020 |
|
Mouse cursor sometimes disappears (Read the discussion) |
11 weeks |
June 24, 2020 |
|
Support read aloud of PDF files |
20 weeks |
June 9, 2020 |
|
Edge cannot find devices to cast media (Learn more) |
16 weeks |
May 19, 2020 |
|
Provide option to keep specific cookies when choosing to clear browsing data on close |
21 weeks |
Apr 7, 2020 |
|
Option to set a custom photo as the New Tab Page background photo |
33 weeks |
Apr 7, 2020 |
|
Add an option to hide the Bing search bar on the new tab page (Learn more) |
32 weeks |
Mar 31, 2020 |
|
Allow the search bar in the new tab page to be configured with other search providers (Learn more) |
32 weeks |
Mar 31, 2020 |
|
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 |
|
Enable sync of installed browser extensions between devices |
19 weeks |
Mar 19. 2020 |
|
Some users are unable to access any web page |
3 weeks |
Mar 11, 2020 |
|
Favorites sync issues, including sync not working, deleted favorites reappearing, and favorites being duplicated |
13 weeks |
Mar 4, 2020 |
|
Provide an option to add a share button to the tool bar |
17 weeks |
Feb 26, 2020 |
|
Need for better handling of links when there is more than one profile |
26 weeks |
Feb 21, 2020 |
|
Touchpad two-finger scrolling is sometimes triggering a right click instead |
24 weeks |
Feb 21, 2020 |
|
Add the ability to change the location for news content on the new tab page |
20 weeks |
Jan 22, 2020 |
|
Provide the ability to change the title of tiles on the new tab page |
22 weeks |
Jan 22, 2020 |
|
Enable search in the extensions store |
17 weeks |
Dec 19, 2019 |
|
The taskbar icon is not updating to the new Microsoft Edge logo |
1 week |
Nov 14, 2019 |
|
A round of improvements to scrolling experience, with more (including performance) to come down the line |
12 weeks |
Nov 14, 2019 |
|
YouTube.com does not render properly and appears extremely magnified |
1 week |
Nov 4, 2019 |
|
Bring the OneNote Web Clipper to the Microsoft Edge extensions store |
4 weeks |
Nov 4, 2019 |
|
Improve discoverability of the home button since some users are asking for it. (Join the discussion) |
8 weeks |
October 29, 2019 |
|
Microsoft Edge is crashing whenever a new tab is opened from a link |
1 week |
October 22, 2019 |
|
Inking for PDF files |
9 weeks |
October 22, 2019 |
|
Provide an option to remove the send feedback “smiley” button from the toolbar |
1 week |
October 15, 2019 |
|
Show the New Tab Page in dark theme when the browser is in dark theme |
6 weeks |
October 1, 2019 |
|
Add the ability to turn off the news feed on the new tab page |
6 weeks |
October 1, 2019 |
|
ClickOnce deployment of Windows applications from web pages |
6 weeks |
October 1, 2019 |
|
Website elements are being flipped upside down when switching between tabs |
1 week |
September 17, 2019 |
|
Sign-in profile picture is not always kept up to date |
4 weeks |
September 17, 2019 |
|
“Administrator Mode Detected” error message when opening the browser |
2 weeks |
September 4, 2019 |
|
Add a favorites button to the toolbar, for quicker access to favorites |
1 week |
August 29, 2019 |
|
Make it easier to share web content with other users and apps |
1 week |
August 29, 2019 |
|
Drop down menus in some web pages are not working |
1 week |
August 29, 2019 |
|
Add a dark theme to Microsoft Edge |
Addressed before these posts started |
|
|
Build translation capabilities into the browser |
Addressed before these posts started |
|
|
Delete browsing history on exit |
Addressed before these posts started |
|
|
Show favorites bar only on the new tab page |
Addressed before these posts started |
|
|
Bring back reading view |
Addressed before these posts started |
|
|
Sync data with my work or school account |
Addressed before these posts started |
|
- Thanks for the update,
All I want from Edge team is to give sync issues the highest priority because it's directly related to customer data and keeping it safe is important.
about the new addition to the list, "Some passwords are not saved", not much info about that.
is it related to any possible sync problem?
or is there other reasons? such as length of passwords, characters used in passwords etc that are causing that issue?- Yes, we are missing a lot without History sync option. Also, there is no word for that anywhere. I expected something related to this in Ignite but nothing about this there also.
Team please update on History Sync progress. Summer also over.
MissyQ As always, thank you for the update. Agreed with others that sync issues should be a high priority, and any updates welcome.
Also, want to press on the request to "collapse tab groups" that are available in Chrome. Can this be added as a feature? I would add that this would be quite helpful, particularly as sync works.
I'd like to see Vert Tabs released to more folks than what is currently being done... I'm still waiting...
Dennis5mile- Please bring Acrylic back to Edge!
- Ya terminó el verano 😞
MissyQ
A new release and all the problems are still there, after almost 1.5 years..- 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 for reading.
- 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, all icons and buttons turns to dark grey which are almost not visible at all!
https://imgur.com/dffCEKD-"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 relesae this summer which is already over now, don't make promises you can't keep.
So, What did you say that is added or fixed again in this release ?????- Don't forget that initially they promised history sync to be available when the browser officially launched, which resulted to be false; then they promised to release it at the beginning of the year, again untrue (at this time they said that History Sync was not "enough important for the community"). Finally, they lied to us again with this summer scam. However, I have to said that I'm not surprised, this team has long track of unaccomplished goals and false promises.
It is astounding how they still will never even mention the words History Sync, or give any updates or responses to anyone.
Is the underlying Sync platform that fundamentally broken?How Linux support is a priority over completing the year-late core functionality is beyond me.
- I strongly with almost all of your points. Some basic and important features are due from more than a year and continuously getting delayed. Most important of them all is "History Sync" that was planned for Summer that officially over in August but don't know when it'll be over for Microsoft 😞
Also, white screen during start-up is also an issue when using Dark mode.
"Dark mode for PDFs for reading" is also very helpful feature. I want to add on to this for "View page source" also. As a web developer, we quite often use this option but it opens in white page that should not happen at all if you are using dark mode.
Edge team, we know you are doing amazing job and already made Edge a better option than Chrome for professional and consumers, but please implement these features ASAP so that we can completly switch to Edge.Muy cierto rjtiwari10, necesitamos la sincronización de historial para dejar completamente a Chrome.
And along with the dark mode issues in desktop Edge, there's also the even worse dark mode issues in Android Edge. For me I need desktop and Android browsers that work together, so I can't use either until I can use both, and after having become unexpectedly sensitive to bright screens early this year I simply can't use Android Edge at all. It needs Android Google Chrome's #enable-force-dark flag, or much better Android Google Chrome Beta's #darken-wesites-checkbox-in-themes-setting flag (because it's a right pain having to go to the flags to turn the #enable-force-dark off on the odd site it's bad on, then all the way back to flags to turn it on again), or best the ability to use the Dark Reader extension like Android Firefox (old, or new 'Daylight' Fenix varieties) which can remember which sites one doesn't want made dark.
And generally Android Edge could do with the beta being brought up to the same Chromium version as desktop Edge, desktop Chrome and Android Chrome instead of being left on Chromium 77! Android Chrome versions go hand in hand with the desktop versions, same version updates within a couple of days of each other at most, public, beta, dev and canary; and new Android Firefox public, beta and nightly are sometimes actually ahead of desktop Firefox. While Android Edge is left in the misty distance of prehistory. Ooh, Microsoft added collections to Android Edge too ... but haven't caught up on ANY of the other and far more basic missing features that would let me use it.
As for the lack of History (and open tabs) sync in both desktop and Android Edge - I thought it was pretty unbelievable you lot at Microsoft didn't have that ready for the first public release. The fact it's STILL not done after all this time when you are doing all this far less fundamental stuff is just utterly flabbergasting. As I've said before, there's a view that nowadays a lot of people use desktop Google Chrome because Google Chrome is what they use on their Android phones, NOT the other way round. If Microsoft really want desktop Edge to get a really significant share of the browser market, they need to put a LOT more effort and importance into making Android Edge properly competitive on Android, and THAT includes giving much more priority to full and easy desktop and Android syncing. It's all very well saying 'our users say blah blah is or isn't important', but your current users are a small minority of the potential users you presumably want, Microsoft. You need to look at the fact that for a lot of people their phone browsing is more important to them than their desktop browsing, so - given the usefulness of and need for phone-desktop syncing - Android browser choice drives desktop browser choice for a lot of people. And Android Edge currently sucks compared with either Android Chrome or new Android Firefox.
- How about making Vertical Tabs a switch in "edge://flags" ? Then those that want to try it can without waiting for the luck of the draw.....
Dennis5mile As even Microsoft stepped into android, it will be good to include the #nearby-sharing flag which is included in the chromium, every android phone supports it, so please enable that.
(this is in chrome stable)
I seriously hope that Microsoft considers supporting the FreeBSD community. Porting the Linux version over to a working application on FreeBSD is usually quite simple. As a FreeBSD user, I would be happy to assist the Microsoft team in BETA testing their product or in any other way possible.
Thanks!
--
Gerard
Thank you for sharing and super excited.
"Add "text notes" feature to PDF files" is feature which several people asking especially those who upgrade from Microsoft Edge legacy and students are using this feature a lot.
It would be nice to increase priority for this feature.
