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Damix
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Apr 08, 2019

UI

Consistency on UI. Add Fluent design effects like shadows and highlight effects. Add History, Download, Favorites button on the top bar like in "old" EDGE. Add History, Download, Favorites on one ...
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Jul 24, 2019

Mace242 

 

They didn't remove anything. They're adding features, the new Edge is basically a clean slate.

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Mace242
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Aug 05, 2019
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.
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    thatpitter
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    Sep 28, 2019
    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.
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      coffee351
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      Sep 30, 2019

      thatpitter Can I argue about the Fluent design? There is a possibility to enable rounded corners search window in May 2019 update. Here's the outcome: http://www.thevista.ru/files/images/uploads/2019/06/rounded_corners_in_windows_10.png

      So rounded corner may be a future for not only Mac OS, but to Windows as well (bringing back the old window look?). I like the tabs straight though, no need to copy Chrome here. 

      But honestly, in Windows 8 straight window corners, specially with the "Aero Lite" theme looked straight out of Windows 95.

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    Aug 05, 2019

    Mace242 

     

    Well if they don't add those things "back", the new Edge is going to fail hard (again). They need to be better than any other browser out there. I also think it's time to see some Fluent, the current version looks almost exactly like Chrome and I hate that. Even this would be much better than the current version: https://twitter.com/itsMichaelWest/status/1126474855958876160/photo/1

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