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Top feedback summary for September 24
+1 for "Make tabs more square and less rounded, like the current version of Microsoft Edge".
I would extend this to the whole interface, in fact. The current version looks and feels more "at home" in Windows 10 than this Chromium-based one..
In the current version, look at not only the tabs, but also the address bar, three dots menu, the settings sidebar.. it looks and feels much more like a standard Windows app and fits in with other Windows 10 apps.
Thanks!
alzadude
This took some me getting used to, but I've grown to prefer it to the old square Edge. I wonder if this new, more rounder look might eventually make it's way across all Windows 10 & Apps, making it more consistent.
I also like the large address bar, easier to read on my sleep-deprived eyes : )Indeed the issue that bothers me the most is the lack of consistency on the desktop across the apps.
I don't mind which design/look is adopted, I just wish they'd implement it consistently!
Granted, the Chromium-based edge is built on different GUI tech, and so naturally will look a bit different, but I don't think there's any value in making users aware of that.. I would imagine most users would prefer consistency, whether it's the look or the design (placement/organisation of menus etc) from a usability perspective.
I suppose it would be more effort to update all other built-in apps to this rounded look, rather than change just this one app to the square look.. That's a consideration 🙂
Granted, the Chromium-based edge is built on different GUI tech, and so naturally will look a bit different, but I don't think there's any value in making users aware of that.
Actually there is value in that. Windows 10 is the most used desktop/laptop OS in the world, and all those users have current Edge, but most have chosen not to use it. Indeed it has too few users and too small a share of the browser market to make it worth Microsoft's time and money to go on with it. This new Chromium Edge is an attempt to garner a larger share of the browser market ... probably a final attempt if it doesn't succeed. Now, most ordinary users don't follow the tech press and blogs, and if new Chromium Edge looks like old EdgeHTML Edge at first glance, most Windows 10 users who decided not to use old Edge will just think it's the same-old, shrug, and carry on with whichever non-Edge browser they are currently using. Chromium Edge needs to look obviously different from old EdgeHTML Edge to have a chance of getting a significant proportion of all those current non-Edge using Windows 10 users to even think about switching to it.
And on top of that, the browser with by far the biggest market share for desktops/laptops is Google Chrome. For these mostly non-techie current Google Chrome users, if Chromium Edge actually looks very like Google Chrome, it becomes easier to lure them into trying it. 'Look, there's no learning curve because it looks and works just like what you use now, but without Google hoovering your data and these shiny extra features' kind of thing.
Remember, Microsoft isn't aiming it at the current far too few Edge users, or techie types. They're aiming it at the horde of non-techie Windows 10 users who are currently using Google Chrome.
