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Touch experience is quite choppy compared to the old Edge
When comparing both browsers side by side it is very clear that Chromium Edge is not really usuable on a touch device.
Elliot Kirk
Microsoft
Microsoftkitron Thank you for the feedback. Touch is very important to Microsoft, and is one of the areas where we are working to not only improve Edge, but all Chromium based browsers. You can learn a little more about our Open Source aspirations at our blog: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/04/08/microsoft-edge-preview-channel-details/
Elliot
Elliot Kirk Just installed Chromium Edge Dev on my old SP3, running Insider Slow Track, which I largely use in portrait tablet mode. It is pretty much impossible to touch the address bar and get the address highlighted - it either opens or closes tabs above the bar or opens the bookmark below the bar where I'm touching. Not really usable for me atm.
Cheers,
Tony.
- I got the Chromium Edge installed on the Surface Book 2 to experiment with hybrid usage, and I can state three things:
One - The tab bar has grown a bit in size and that feels nice, compared to the more narrow approach from the original Edge (if we don't consider Tab Previews)
Two - The settings and context menus are smaller in comparison. Just being able to rescale the area of each button by 125 to 150% vertically would help a lot.
Three - The addition of icons for each button is very nice. I does help immediately understand what each menu item is for on a glance, and can help those who may run the browser for the first time with a language they might not understand.
I don't know to which extent this version of Edge will be redesigned to better integrate the Fluent Design System, which it mainly does not a.t.m. and if FDS will be implemented on non-Windows versions of Edge.
