Top feedback summary for September 24

Knobby1939 

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Knobby1939 wrote:

Srolling is intermittent on several websites. I can scroll a small way into the window then it stops and I have to use the slider bar. David Rubino 

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Hi,

when it stops, does the whole website stop responding along with it or just the scroll bar stops working? because I might have something similar here, on a few heavy websites

Deleted The flag I think you're talking about is called Turn off caching of streaming media to disk. Looking for it now, it seems to be removed, which means it's here to stay. It's purpose is to save large amounts of battery life without sacrificing too much performance. If you'd like more information, check out this article: https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/technology/google-chrome-exhausting-devices-battery-life-microsoft-comes-to-the-rescue/1680946/

For those of you who don't feel like checking, its cool, here's the important parts:

 "these days media content is cached to disk through acquisition and playback, keeping the said disk active while this process continues;

Microsoft said that it increases power consumption and can also avert certain lower-power modes from being engaged into the operating system;

The change will prevent the caching of certain media content to disk in order to improve upon the device battery life;

Chromium stops ‘streaming media content from caching to disk where possible' to improve battery life by stopping unnecessary media caching;

the proposal is aimed at media playback instances where the user is watching content and, on occasions, is accessing other content as well.;

disabling the disk caching has no drawback as the existing Media Source implementation already keeps the recent content in memory, the user will still be able to engage in usual tasks like going backwards a few seconds during playback without the need to get the content from the network again. The seek responsiveness, at present, will be kept in these instances;

A Google engineer demonstrated that the change adopted ” will avert the caching of certain media content to disk in order to improve the device battery life for its users."

This change is here to stay. I think Microsoft should add a high performance mode where the power saving features are turned off for people who are plugged in on desktops and laptops or value performance over battery life.

ericleigh007 

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ericleigh007 wrote:
From where does the team collect this feedback? I'd like to run an idea up the flagpole, but I don't know where to post it. Thanks! -e

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Hi,

there are 3 ways,

1. by posting your idea in the forum:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/bd-p/EdgeInsiderDiscussions

2. by sending feedback directly to the Edge insider developer team using the Smiley button at the top right corner of the browser.

3. using this online form

https://microsoftedgesupport.microsoft.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

tomscharbach My fear is that if they allow Google integration back in, then that means they have to put in all the Google components that is required for Google integration to work - and *if* that is the case, I will strongly disagree!, as I fear this will return the spying tools back to Google, which this browser had gotten rid off. I don't see how it is possible to restore Google integration without these components, but if it *is* somehow possible, I am fine with allowing the feature.

Robert Tillotson 

Hi,

Media Autoplay which is part of the new settings page design, is now by default available in Canary channels, but it is still a controlled feature roll-out in Dev channel, probably in a week or two it will be fixed in Dev as well.

when it comes, it will be at the bottom of site permissions as cjc2112 mentioned

Robert Tillotson 

It's in site permissions in canary settings. I think it was a flag that is now removed.

kpsquared cjc2112 

Have you tried Share + Your Phone app? I randomly stumbled upon it a while back and it actually does what you suggested. you can send web pages to your mobile phone where "Your Phone" app is installed and then you will get the notification that you tap on and the page will open in your mobile phone web browser (doesn't have to be Edge, can be Google Chrome too).

I tried this on Android.

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Step 4

kpsquared That's a great idea I've never thought of. 

Yeah, I'm not getting it on Canary so it seems to be fixed on the Canary side.