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*Updated* Dev channel build 77.0.211.3 is live
Hello Insiders! Today we released build 77.0.211.3 to the Microsoft Edge Developer channel. We’ve got some new features, many of which you’ve seen over the past two weeks in Canary and have been eagerly waiting for in Dev. We’ve also fixed quite a few reliability and behavior issues, the most significant of which include:
We have added a single fix from to the .2 release, a fix to the Add Profile button so that it works by default even if you don't change the name of the profile.
New features and behavior:
- Enable secure receipt of payment card data.
- Enable Application Reputation from SmartScreen by default
- Fix to support Dolby audio on Windows 8.
- Family safety feature has a flag in edge://flags.
- Direct launch for ClickOnce applications has been enabled.
- Support for HEVC decoder has been added.
- Enable Windows Defender Application Guard by default
- Now we sort extensions into “From Microsoft Store” and “From other store” categories
- Added “Recent” category in History management page
- Disabled InPrivate browsing for profiles managed by Family Settings
- Added tracking prevention under a flag in edge://flags.
- Added ability to Save pages as MHTML from reading view
- Work to support single sign on (SSO) and Azure Active Directory (AAD)
- Localization into 11 languages (more coming)
- Enabling SmartScreen on macOS by default
- Enabling SafeSearch functionality for all Bing searches.
- Support for keyboard shortcuts for extensions.
Fixes for improved reliability:
- Fix for TouchBar on macOS when in YouTube fullscreen mode.
- Multiple fixes to sync engine
- Improved the crash reporting and uploading
- Fixed a crash on URL load
- Fixed an error when sync was turned off and on repeatedly.
- Fixed a crash when trying to write to a read only date attribute
- Fixed a crash when moving tab between two windows on separate screens.
- Fixed a crash that occurred when sync occurred before sign-on completed
- Fixed a crash that occurs on some navigation requests.
- Fixed a crash on pop-up windows
- Fixed crash on launch of Microsoft Edge of macOS Sierra and High Sierra versions
- Enabled ability to automatically repair extensions by default.
- Fixed an issue with guest more support on privacy and services settings page.
- Fixed crash on launch of Microsoft Edge of macOS
Fixes for improved behavior:
- Improvements to dark mode in various controls and pages
- Select the last used Chrome profile by default when importing from Chrome.
- Move multiple controls to Fluent UI
- Improve the cleanup logic in the installer
- Limit New Tab Page content for Education SKUs and Windows 10s.
- Fixes to new WebView control rendering
- Fixes for importing defaults from Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer
- Fixes for Reading View toolbar
- Fixes for importing pinned tabs and settings during First Run Experience
- Fix to use user preference for font size rather than preset default.
- Automatically move keyboard focus to address bar after First Run Experience
- Fixed the swipe gesture for History on macOS
- Fixed the sync icon badge on the user flyout.
- Audio offload fixes to improve performance and battery life.
In addition to this work, there has been a ton of work on coming features including enterprise management and IE-mode. And of course, thanks to everybody for being an insider and sending us all of your great feedback and suggestions!
106 Replies
Elliot Kirk Something that I find that is missing from the current dev build, is the original Edge favorites menu and settings, slide out tab. Personally that was one thing that had drawn me to edge originally over other browsers, as it felt more streamlined and easier to see and use... It would be interesting, if we aren't going to get that style back to understand the reasoning behind the change.
However, overall I love the changes that have been made, and how much you guys really take into consideration the feedback... I wish you guys well with this endeavor!
Elliot Kirk thanks for the update! we need the top section (bar and title) to be more minimalism and tight. The 13-inch laptop needs more space.
- Good work all! This is truly impressive and makes you think just how much work goes into building & supporting something like this :) You're all the real MVP's!
I'm waiting on my AAD sync so I can split my work and personal fav's! And so my customers can just have everything sync'd to the cloud. Jump onto another computer and it's all back. It's going to be amazing once all this is complete. Elliot Kirk read aloud not work on reading view
Hi Vu_chien, I apologize. Read Aloud is not in this week's Developer channel update. I must have mixed up my Canary and Dev windows when I was testing this feature. It does work on today's Canary build (I retested just to make sure :-D). Read Aloud on Reading View should be in next week's Developer channel update.
Thanks, and sorry again!
Elliot
- Personally I Love this style of folder look... They actually look like folders and not some half done after thought design to represent a folder........
But, that is just my20censworth
Dennis5mile Deleted
I agree. The monochrome folders were so much classier.
- ex-jedi
Why are so many people missing the old folder colour? They were a pain and didn't stand out from regular bookmarks enough. I'm really glad to see them coloured normally now.
My main gripe with Chromium Edge now is just that it doesn't look enough like Edge. Those squared edges look cool in the main app - I'd like to see them in the Chromium version as well. Oh, and the super slick smooth scrolling needs to come across too.
- Yes, noticed this too. Liked the other folders better.
Thank you for the details in what was updated, changed, improved, etc. That level of detail isn't common with other company's applications, usually.
- It is good to see so much work done, good job guys! I am looking for alternative to Chrome, for a long time, feel this might be it. When do you recon you will be ready for stable release?
Elliot Kirk I tryed Read Aloud with 3 PDF and It's not working at all. Any workaround or property to fix before actually using it?
Hi gabgb, I was mistaken. The ReadAloud feature for PDFs is not in this week's Dev build. I apologize for the confusion.
Elliot Kirk thank you for your answer! Will be wating for the feature. Thx
Oh, while on the edge://flags page I came across this interesting flag.. Not sure how long it has been there, but the concept is interesting...
I Like this idea. To be able to choose which sites to always clear on exit instead of having the option, but having no choice as to which sites....
But I think there needs to be an easier way to add sites. Having to add them one at a time could be time consuming. Would be nice that when you click the add button a popup appears that shows "all" the sites you have currently visited with a check box along side each where by you can choose which sites to either "not" clear on exit or "to" clear on exit. I think the choice should be "not" clear on exit....justmy20centsworth
Dennis5mile
- Nice find, I would like to try this - what is the flag called?
Elliot Kirk - The "Paste and search" icon in the context menu is missing. This is what happens from the beginning. As well as some other icons in the context menu, such as "Select all" or "Past as plain text".
