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UI
Damix Sadly I thing we're stuck with the "hey I'm not really Chrome (but I am)" design and UI but with some Windows icons. New Edge actually fits better into the design of Macs than it does on Windows. It is very easy (I have done this myself - I'm a developer) to make a window fit the themes of Win10, Win8x and Win7 so that it looks right on either one. I added it to one of our products in a morning.
This is a real shame as it looks like New Edge is simply going to offer the look, feel and functionality of Chrome with a few extensions loaded. MS could have done something special but they have taken the easy route. There will be no compelling reason for those that have Chrome installed to swap over - none at all.
As for removing a whole load of functionality - don't get me started! Perhaps if enough people don't use the new one they'll decide that Egde Classic was always better than New Edge (that's a joke).
They didn't remove anything. They're adding features, the new Edge is basically a clean slate.
- That's just semantics. You no longer have all the handy drawing and annotation tools that were available to you. It no longer works in tablet mode properly (back button leaves the application). You no longer have useful history and favorites fly outs. You can't easily pin pages to the start menu. It responds badly to non-standard (96) dpi settings. We are heading for the first beta version which means that we are stuck with the awful clumsy UI and a Microsoft application that looks more like Windows XP than Windows 10. It's amazing that it looks more in place on Macs than on Windows.
Now tell me things haven't gone away and aren't coming back. They have even resorted to cheating on screen shots on pages like https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-ca/whats-next in order to make the new Edge look more like the old one.- It is somewhat disappointing that we can no longer annotate web pages - but how exactly are they 'cheating' on the images on the What's Next page? I couldn't find anything that was really inaccurate.
P.S. As both a mac and PC user, I totally agree that newEdge looks more correct in style on macs than on PCs. Maybe they are planning on making it appear slightly different between the OS's? Same layout and such, but the windows one uses more Fluent effects and the Mac one uses more Cocoa (i think thats the current version?) effects and styling on mac.
