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While I see some of the suggestions I made in this Microsoft Edge Insider forum in your post, sadly there is no sign of the one thing I need to use it as my general browser, at the moment or in the future. For me to even consider using a browser as my default browser it MUST support middle-clicking on a favourite in a folder dropdown menu from the favourites bar opening that favourite in a new background tab (which it does) but then LEAVING THE DROPDOWN MENU OPEN for further clicks on other favourites in the list, which it currently doesn't. Current Edge does this, IE does it (or did last time I used it, which was awhile ago), and Firefox does it. Google Chrome is the only other browser I have used at all in a lot of years that does NOT support the middle click on a favourites bar favourite leaving the menu open for further selections; and that is why I won't even consider using Google Chrome other than sending the very occasional page to it that for some obscure reason doesn't 'work' in Firefox (like maybe a dropdown menu won't accept input in Firefox). Barring that very rare maybe one web page per two months, I won't even think of using Google Chrome for browsing.
Sadly Edge Dev doesn't support this. and every time I think I'll try to start a browsing session using Edge Dev, that one deficiency sends me back to Firefox in minutes. So my Edge Dev testing is limited to checking the new features after updates, and throwing interesting pages over to it from Firefox (with the 'Send To Edge' extension button in Firefox, settings tweaked to send to Edge Dev rather than current Edge) every now and then to see if it copes with them.
I suppose having something other than middle-click would be acceptable (though a pain given 15 years of muscle memory middle-clicking links in favourites bar dropdown menus) provided than it was something easily done one handed. Currently in Edge Dev (like with Google Chrome) the only way I've found to open a favourite link while keeping the dropdown menu open is CTRL-LMB, which on my laptop for me is difficult and painful one handed, or requires me to sit up and twist round to use two hands every time I want to open multiple favourites in one menu, which disability makes very painful, so is not acceptable.
Really, this one thing and I'd be prepared to load up Edge Dev with a bunch more Google Chrome extensions than the couple of critical ones I've installed so far, and try using it as my default browser. Without it I won't, and if I get the impression that it's NOT ever going to be addressed (as Google have made clear over many years of many people asking about in Google Chrome) then I'll just give up on Edge and stop testing it. This is THE most important feature that chrome Edge needs for me and is a complete sine qua non for my adopting it. With it, I'd use Edge Dev now; without it it does not matter what magical other things you add; it's a complete deal breaker feature.
I can't see how it could be impossible to do. The program can detect the middle click because it already does something different on middle-click - open in new background tab rather than the open in current tab of left click. I've read that at least with Google Chrome an extension can't do it the way one did in Firefox before Mozilla made it built in behaviour in Quantum, because extensions don't have access to WHICH button was pressed. But actually in the main program ... if Microsoft can't make that small kind of additional functionality, there's no reason for anyone to use chromium Edge over Google Chrome.
In fact, if Microsoft added the functionality to the Chromium base, there's a fair number of Google Chrome users who've been screaming fat Google or this for years who would be grateful to Microsoft.