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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 place. One page with 3 tab maybe?
- Add a option to display the Open/Save as when download like "old" EDGE.
- Preview page when hovering it in app bar.
- The Account tab when press on the bar button is too small (on my device, Surface GO), the text is very small and almost not readble.
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I have attached 3 files which highlight the tab bar, address bar and fav bar for Old Edge, Chrome and New Edge.
Obviously Chrome and Old Edge look way better when considered the following:
- Address bar:
- Font Size
- Nav button size and spread
- Fav bar icons
Hopefully Microsoft can make some changes when they finally ship this off, otherwise this is a nice productNew EdgeOld EdgeChrome
- Address bar:
Im not sure about the rounded corners on the tab selector. But I do like that they rounded out the url/ search bar. The right click menu does look very good but is not the most consistand with windows.
- I have been asking for Favs Bar toggle in the current Edge, already, for a long time. Should have the same here. In the meantime Ctrl+Shift+B turns the Favs Bar on & off. Cheers, Drew
- I'd like to see in this new Edge a diferent UI or the same as the old one, but, at moment, the team have things more important and with more priority to do.
A new UI can be developed any time soon, but, for me at least, I want a browser that works, which give to the user great performance, great stability, that does not consume huge amount of RAM....
For example, Chrome the time in time,
I do not care if the current interface stays in the next times, as long as the whole browser itself is the best.hferreira107* I forgot to finish the sentence I had started about the Chrome xD
Chrome in time to time become slow, buggy, not responsive, and the worst problem is that he consumes a huge amount of RAM even with a few tabs opened.
At this point, this new Edge works lots better than Chrome.
I did a RAM consumption test with the same amount of tabs (same pages, same usage), both with no extensions enabled, and the Edge consumes less memory, but, I think, a few more improvements can be done.
- Not everyone likes fluent design. I like new Edge design although somewhere wastes the pixels (Bookmark bar and Address bar should be slightly narrower)
vovchyk If you ignore phone browsing and just consider desktop PC's the picture will look quite a bit different.
Damix I'm sure they already are working on adding fluent design, after all we are only in the beginning of the Anaheim testing (just the start of development for MS Edge team as they started assuming it was in December, 2018 which has only made 5 months of development) at this stage. With time (and effort with feedback support) they will eventually add it, I would prefer however that Downloads has its seperate page as in my opinion I agree with how Chromium puts the Downloads in its own area so if I wanted to see my downloads I know where to go. For favourites and history, they should be integrated on the top bar as you said. Overall, Edge will eventually carry its old features over to the new but for now its pin pointing what's needed in this current stage.
Thanks for reading, peace :)
Eddytronpie
I agree with what others have been saying, for me my biggest three isuses are:
- No open/save/save as dialog - this has been my favorite feature of Edge. If you are downloading a lot of files that need to be organized being able to place them exactly where you want them instead of rummaging through a downloads folder is a huge time saver.
- Text looks washed out - It looks like text on most pages is displayed using a dark grey instead of black. It's not as easy to read as the true black used in the old Edge.
- Round corners on UI elements - The browser is named Edge! It shouldn't have rounded coners anywhere in it. It just doens't feel like a MS product with the current rounding of everything.
IrinaL I'm currently using the "ask where to save each file before downloading" option but I'd say it's only about 75% as useful as the old Save | Save As feature. This is because I often save multiple files to the same location so the old Save was more convenient for that.
While on the subject of the old file dialog, I've found I really miss the Open option. I use the new Edge for most everything but find myself going to back to Classic for this one feature. The use case for me is grading student assignments. I realize this is a pretty niche use case but I imagine anyone that has to open lots of file in fairly rapid succession would appreciate the efficiency gain. Instead of having to download a file, then open that file, then delete the file, I just press the open button. It really speeds things up for me.
- The way I see it, Microsoft better make this new Edge just like the original one, the UI was perfect, and only modify the under-the-hood stuff like they did now to use chromium javascript engine instead of Chakra.
Indeed! It would be perfect if they can literally copy the Edge UI pixel by pixel would be fine. For now we just need same Edge we know and love but based on Chromium included its added improvements that Edge UWP didn't have.
Basically clone copy of Edge UWP at UI level, but Chromium underneath.Edit: I would also want to add, keep the New Tab page, this one is definitely an improvement from the old Edge UWP.
I would like to add more:
- Make new Edge Chromium to have exactly similar UI from existing Edge UWP like with sharper corners, menu animations, button sizes, titlebar height (currently they are few pixels different and the window buttons are in different sizes than on Edge), and few UI animations that in Edge like icons.
- Maybe not a popular suggestion, but it would be great to have an option to auto-hide the scrollbar and only shows the small bar when you scroll. This maximize the webpage window more. It just looks so modern and nicer with web sites not having out-of-place looking scrollbar.
- Slide/Swipe gesture animation for Forward and Back like on existing Edge UWP. Chromium already does support this gesture, but only arrow shows up which is not an obvious UI action behavior like a whole webpage slides left or right. Old Metro IE actually did it best as there is a saved preview of the webpage as you swipe.
- Edge Chromium hopefully will make touch usability as a priority too, hopefully even better than Edge UWP. We need a tablet mode that is optimized for tablet use especially on smaller screen sizes, which is also beneficial when you snap Edge window.
- New Tab pinned websites needs to have drag-and-drop functionality. Make it square like Live Tiles and have sharper corners for design language consistency. Just retain the shadow effect and add Reveal Highligh effect from Fluent Design. It needs to allow more pins too.
- New Tab page needs to follow dark theme also.
That's all for now. Looking forward for more Edge Chromium improvements! :)
exa2552 wrote:
- Add Dark Mode (ouch, my eyes!)
