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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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- SO FAR THIS BROWSER HAS BEEN VERY FAST AND USES AVERAGE RESOURCES, PLEASE KEEP IT LIGHT AND FAST. DON´T ADD TOO MANY FEATURES, TRY TO MAINTAIN THA BASICS....LEAN IS THE KEY WORD!
EduardoMartinez Features we are requesting are so minor resource wise it's nearly negligible, and they are pretty much already implemented elsewhere, they only need some mapping to shortcuts. And having those features added far outweighs the cost they would incur from end-user. If these things aren't to your liking, use Chrome. This Frankenstein is barely distinguishable from it by this point.
And being light doesn't equate being fast and responsive. For instance, PDF reader sucks, as does touch scrolling. Well, at least compared to the old Edge. That was the one feature making me use Edge over Chrome and Firefox for reading, the thing I spend most of the time on. This DevEdge doesn't yet come even close, but here are my fingers crossed we'll get there eventually.
The reason we are even discussing this and requesting features is because we loved the old Edge, despite some of its faults, or we wouldn't be looking at the early stages of its successor and trying to contribute ideas which work great for it already.
What consumes resources is page rendering, page content storage and unloading from memory, JS engine for web scripts execution... The UI has minimal impact overall.
- I agree with your PDF statement. I was printing small sections of a large PDF using Chromium Edge recently, and the scrolling was very, very choppy. Additionally, every time I printed a section then tried to scroll down, it wouldn’t let me scroll for about 10 seconds after I started the print job. This is definitely very annoying and needs to be fixed.
Perhaps I used Classic Edge too rarely, but I actually like the new split of History/Downloads/Favorites.
Perhaps it's easier to find things when they occupy more screen space. This browser does get used by desktop users, who have lots of real estate. And, when I use my laptop, I do prefer having the full window instead of just the sidebar.
We now get a filters, day-by-day grouping, & a search bar for downloads, all big wins for me:
ikjadoon We aren't complaining about having the dedicated pages for downloads, history, favorites. We are complaining about not having the ability to choose. Sometimes you need to find something quickly, sometimes you simply want to track progress of multiple downloads simultaneously while reading something else online. And sometimes you are simply re-organizing your favorites.
Why would you want to switch tabs, while you can have the increased productivity when you can access all of them from a pinned sidebar? You can track downloading progress, you can click on a favorite to get your current tab redirected, see result, and either delete it or move on to the next one.
Or you have to close the tab, switch back to the previous one, and open the next link in a new tab. Even to do that, you have to know shortcuts to open result in a new tab instead of the same one, or you risk getting your history, where you scrolled really far down, getting redirected to the link clicked, and upon returning, you have to scroll all the way down once again to find your previous spot.
It's just inconvenient for a lot of scenarios. Which is why some of us really loved it and, hence, would love it back.
- I respect having a choice, though it might add development overhead.
For me, personally, I have the same needs, but maybe have gotten used to other browsers, so I hadn't had the time to fall in love with the sidebar menu: CTRL+J to open downloads, search, and then CTRL+W to close it, for example. Download progress, I do just use the download bar at the bottom (though I wish it showed speeds!).
I see your points: thank you for the well-written post. I hope they take these use cases into account for either adding the sidebar menu and/or somehow duplicating these features with their current menu.
Or, worse comes to worst, since it's just another tab, maybe an extension could be developed? But, I see the desire for native integration.
I really do hope that they do not keep the UI of newEdge like it is now. (Although I appreciate Dark Mode :D) Still, I was sad when I saw the news that Microsoft might be switching their Edge browser (poor project spartan) and then when they officially announced it - I (personally) ran into maybe a total of 20 problems over the 4 and 1/2 years that I used the browser, but whatever looks like we're switching.
I agree with the comment that the UI currently seems to be a very scrambled version of Chrome and Windows 10 - almost like I accidentally opened chrome but chrome loaded the wrong icons and decided for a day it was going to connect me to my Microsoft account instead of my Google account - but I hope that they do make the UI much more like the current Edge Browser, that one uses the design language of Windows 10 Fluent Design, not the ultraflat style of Google's Material Design. If i was looking for that design style, I would go to Chrome - they are basically the same browser underneath now. Also, I realize that rounded edges do appear to be slowly making their way into Fluent design (take a look at the UI when you search for something on the taskbar) but I hope they add the Reveal/Acryllic and such from Fluent Design :D
- I also hope that they add the Reveal effect.
I agree.
And I really like the old favorite button on the toolbar and it is way much better design than chrome.
It doesn't take extra height like the bookmark bar, and it saves a lot of clicks to find bookmarks from the hamburger menu.
- it's just a alpha version , so we have to wait and see what / how Microsoft edge team will make . the final version could be out on end of summer or fall this year . as you know bad thing is worse than nothing . so, the team don't have enough time, they should delay the release to end of the year !
- yes, even Edge for android and ios has the favorites button that shows Favorites, reading list, download and history
Absolutely. Along with privacy and security, UI is one of my top concerns and interest areas for this new Edge.
Yeah, it really really needs some transparency, acrylic and reveal effects, as well as the smooth animations that actually make sense from the old Edge, for example: the context menus had an animation coming from where the cursor actually is, not just some basic fade-in effect.
- Yeah, this would be nice if they can also replicate the UI animation eventually on Edge Dev/Canary builds. I don't expect them to happen soon but hopefully before the official public release to replace Edge UWP. This include Reveal Highlight effects which is kinda exist already in Chromium if you check the latest versions of Chrome/Chromium and click the buttons in the browser navigation bar, if its possible to modify the effects to clone the Reveal Hightlight in Fluent Design, that would be great.
About Acrylic material on the titlebar/tab bar area, I can see this a challenging thing to replicate since that area used in Edge Dev/Canary is an actual system titlebar still based on Aero (still exist, just no translucent effects). My guess of possible solutions are:
- Either that Edge Chromium will have its own implementation of Acrylic-like tab bar just for Chromium,
- Implement XAML Islands to Chromium that Edge Dev/Canary uses. So canning the Acrylic Tab bar/titlebar for the meantime.
For me, I would rather have the animations and UI design layout minus the Acrylic to be eventually implemented on Edge Chromium, making it exactly like Edge UWP plus some feature changes and additions from Chromium. That way we have Edge Chromium replacing Edge UWP that still looks consistent to current Windows 10 Fluent Design version. This is an exciting development to come.
