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*UPDATED* Dev channel update to 78.0.262.0 is live
So, finally off 249 and up to 78.0.262.0
And for me a waste of time. Middle-clicking on favorites, either in menus from the favorites bar or the dropdown still cause the menus to close each time, forcing repeated trawls back through the folders to open several favorites. I've been using middle-click on favorites/bookmarks - with the expectation that the favorites menu will stay OPEN while the clicked favorite opens in a background tab - many, many , many times every single day since I first used a tabbed browser (2005-ish? Using Maxthon, maybe?) whether in Maxthon, then Internet Explorer, then Firefox. Until and unless you sort that out, it doesn't matter to me what else you do to Chromium Edge, I'll still never use it other than for a little bit of testing (mostly just straight after an update only to check what happens when I middle click a favorite). Until/unless you do something about this, I remain a Firefox user.
I do. though, note the new 'Share' only offers email sharing by the Windows 10 email client, NOT the configured default email client - which in my case is Thunderbird. Not good. Edge Dev should respect the configured default programs. Don't slide back into the old, failed Microsoft habit of trying to enforce a closed ecosystem - Chromium Edge needs to be as open as possible and cooperate with as many other programs as possible, not just Microsoft ones. Otherwise you have no chance of displacing Google Chrome and growing the Edge user-base to significant numbers.