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What we're hearing from you
To repeat what we have been telling (rather deaf ears)
what we want is this
Exactly that and not a single pixel else.
Instead of doing that MS wasted resources on creating an Ugly unwanted new favorites Icon.
So now please throw away the ugly crap icon and fix the gui so it looks like we want it and not how you think it should be - after all, if we don't like it. Your browser is a(nother) failure
matsmcp David Rubino Elliot Kirk
Certainly, there is lots of good (& good potential) in this Edge C, BUT...
Mat is right & so are ALL of us. The Team HAS to hear the collective voice & act accordingly! The guts of the browser platform can be improved & terrific, best of the bunch... BUT, not the superficial mechanics that we already have in Edge, stuff we like & want the way it is, same look, same placement, same functionality. Do not mess with the very reasons & Features that make us prefer using Edge. The idea is for more & more people to be drawn to Edge & excited by it not, turned off of using it. The idea is to entice folks not, turn them away. WE want the Edge Toolbar items AS THEY ARE and we DO NOT want full page Ellipsis stuff instead of the Fly-out Panels of Edge! Hear us, listen to us, act accordingly! Give Users what they want & like so they will adopt Edge C in large (happy) numbers. Cannot ignore such wide-spread similar things being said & expressed! Otherwise (many) people will not use the thing! And we DO want MANY people TO use the thing. Ergo, let's not be counter-productive in regard to that goal.
Cheers,
Drew
I think some people may be getting a bit carried away, and wanting things not likely to happen.
Microsoft want to make a dent in the hundreds of millions of people currently using Google Chrome. The number using current Edge is very small by comparison. And the number posting here about the things in current Edge they want to keep is a miniscule fraction of the browser market. I rather suppose that Microsoft have done market research with a sampling size massively greater then the number of posters here.
And new Edge is based on Chromium, as is Google Chrome. Google Chrome, and I think the base Chromium, does not do fly-out panels, sidebars etc - something long lamented by some Google Chrome users. That's why, in Google Chrome, Favourites, History etc are displayed in menus and whole pages, not panels, panes etc. Chromium just doesn't include the ability to produce those. So basing Chrome Edge on Chromium means panels and panes are just not going to happen - the platform
doesn't allow them. Microsoft would have to code them from scratch and get them accepted into the Chromium base.
On things that can be included ... the downloads page is pretty pathetic. Need more info kept and displayed, like size, time/date of download, time taken for download, location of download (shouldn't have to click to open the folder to see which folder) etc.
The Collections button seems to be implemented as a flyout, if I am using the term correctly. At least the behavior is similar to how Edge Legacy works with the Favorites button.
It is not clear to me what would prevent the Favorites button, or other buttons, from displaying the same way in Edge Chromium.- I think once they ship all the features from the Old Edge to the new one, such as Reading list, Webnotes, Cortana integration etc, they will have to put them all in one button and make it a flyout one, to save space and for ease of use.
I'd say they have to. If it's gonna look like Chrome, behave like Chrome - then there is no reason for not using Chrome.
MS has to provide something better than Chrome, not just a bad copy. To do that they need to take the best parts of Edge - the userfriendly gui and combine that with the rendering and plugin functions from chromium. If that requires a fork of Chromium - so bee it.
The main reasons for the failure of edge classic was the dumb decission to not release it for W7 from day one hence limiting the market and forcing all W7 customers to choose another browser (Chrome).
Not having a scripblocker and for many years not having a good adblocker either cemented them to the bottom
