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What we're hearing from you
Note: This is no longer the most recent top feedback summary. You can always find the latest at https://aka.ms/MSEdgeTopFeedback.
Hello insiders, we’re listening!
Over these past months we have been busy reading all the great feedback you've been sending us through the "Send feedback" smiley, here on the insider forum, and to our @MSEdgeDev Twitter handle. As we go through the feedback, common themes, popular suggestions, and bugs with broad impact emerge. We've been highlighting this "top feedback" within the team, and we'd like to share it with you as well. Starting with this post, we will regularly summarize the most significant feedback we are hearing from you and give you an update on the status of each item. We'll also highlight some of the changes we've made that were inspired or prioritized because of your feedback. Check out the list below, and of course use this forum thread to share your thoughts and discuss.
Your feedback has directly led to many improvements. Here are just some of the most notable, now available in the Canary channel:
- Dark theme is here! The most common request over the last several months is to add a dark theme to Edge – check it out in Settings under Appearance today!
- Need help translating? Bing Translate is now built into Microsoft Edge – look for the prompt offering a translation the next time you encounter a page that isn't in your language
- Do you want more control over the data your browser keeps? Check out the privacy controls in Settings under Privacy and services, including the option to Choose what to clear every time you close the browser.
- Don’t want to see the favorites bar all the time? There is now an option in Settings under Appearance that allows you to show it only when you open a new tab.
- Are you annoyed by all the ads competing for your attention while you're trying to focus? Try Reading View for a distraction-free reading experience – look for the book icon in your address bar.
- Want to sign-in and sync to AAD accounts just like your Microsoft account? Sign-in and sync of AAD accounts is now available.
Here are some top feedback topics we plan to address in the coming months. (Of course, plans can change. We'll make sure to let you know if timing or direction shift on any of these.)
Planned to be addressed in the Canary channel in September 2019:
- An option to prevent auto-play of video and audio when you open a website
- A round of improvements to scrolling experience, with more (including performance) to come down the line
- The addition of a favorites button to the toolbar, to provide quicker access to favorites
Planned to be addressed in the Canary channel in October 2019:
- Inking on PDFs
- When you sign-in to the browser, your sign-in profile picture will accurately be kept up to date.
- When you have more than one profile, better handling for opening links and attachments in the appropriate profile.
- An option to set your own photos as the background image on the New Tab Page
- Enable search in the extensions store
- A bug fix for users who receive an “Administrator Mode Detected” notification (advising them to close and relaunch the browser in non-administrator mode) each time they launch Edge
- ClickOnce deployment of Windows applications from web pages
The team is reviewing the following feature requests and we'll be sure to let you know if they're getting ready to show up in one of our channels:
- Feature requests for the New Tab Page, including the capability to turn off the news feed, to hide the Bing search bar, to change the search provider, to rename tiles, and to support Dark Theme
- Bring back features from the current version of Microsoft Edge such as tab set aside, tab preview, "Ask Cortana", and the reading list
- Make it easier to share web content with other users and apps
- Provide an option to set a custom home page
- Update the user interface with the Fluent Design System, including less rounded tabs
- Support themes from the Chrome Web Store
- Allow sign-in to the browser with a Google account
- Provide different options for sorting favorites
- Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files
Finally, there are a few areas where you've told us our quality needs to improve. We are investigating these areas and will fix specific bugs when they are identified:
- Edge should use less memory and CPU than it does
- Scrolling should feel smoother, both for web pages and PDFs
- Update does not always work reliably
- Drop-down menus in some web pages are not working
You can help in these areas by keeping the bug reports coming. Whether you have a major issue or a minor glitch, if you see something, click the "Send feedback" smiley and tell us briefly what happened. Every report helps!
Thank you all for being insiders. Your feedback motivates and inspires us, and we genuinely appreciate it. We look forward to sharing these updates on a regular basis to show how you're helping to set the direction of the next version of Microsoft Edge.
-David Rubino
Microsoft Edge Team
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My concern is the status of C# support for WebView2. We can NOTHING hear about it from the initial announcement of WebView2 several month ago.
I have several C# projects that using WebView(MSHTML), but the adaptation work is completely stopped. Could you share the schedule about that?
Thank you.
David Rubino Dear Dave, Edgium is not ready for primetime in the consumer space without "pin to start menu".
I'm subscribed to the Dev and Canary channels of Edgium and use them regularly at home. While it looks promising I simply won't switch from Edge to Edgium without "pin to start menu". Why?
1) I don't like cluttering up my taskbar.
2) But more importantly... Microsoft has spit directly in our faces concerning almost everything consumer facing (except maybe XBox) for about 5 years straight now. As a result consumer focused developers have fled the Windows platform, as if it were a leper, leaving the MS Store less and less a place where we can go for consumer focused apps.
For example instead of being able to run Intuit's Mint product using an app... because Intuit pulled it from the MS Store back in 2015... like I can do on an iPhone... and iPad... a Samsung phone... or a Samsung tablet... I am forced to use their crappy/clunky website instead. But not wanting to switch over to an iPad, I reluctantly have mint dot com pinned to my Start menu, and have resigned myself to using the web site shortcut. I have tried Edgium's "install this site as an app" for use with Mint. It does NOT work well. Mint has not made a PWA version of their site and probably never will. It is not an "app" it's a "site". I know the difference, I build web-apps professionally, and Mint dot com is not a bloody app!
Bottom line... don't rub salt in our wounds. If we can't have real "apps" for things like most operating system's since oh... 2005 have had... then for crying out loud don't take away our "pin to start menu".
I'm perfectly aware of the difference between PWAs and sites. Still my suggestion is correct.
it says "install this Site As an app", Not "install this app". the browser is smart enough to tell the difference between PWAs and sites, too.
what do you mean by it does not work well? AFAIK it doesn't have any bugs/problems.
I have pinned PWAs and normal sites altogether to my start menu without ANY problem. there is No need for end-users to know whether a site is a site or it actually is a PWA, the browser takes care of it automatically.
David Rubino keep up the good work! As much as choosing Chromium as the base for the new Edge might have been controlversial, I really like where Edge is going. It's probably the fastest of all the Chromium-based ones I have tested so far.
Please, do something with the main toolbar and address bar. It's far too big! And give Acrylic a higher priority, too - I sometimes start the original Edge for some tasks and I love all the subtle effects the UI has. Might seem something so unimportant... but it is 😉
David Rubino Dear Dave, this is NOT ready for prime time in the enterprise until we have "pin to start menu" back. I run a development team and as developers we have somewhere between 10 to 20 windows open regularly. Our taskbar is hence a nightmare to navigate through already. And no... "pin to taskbar" is NOT a workaround. Some folks, especially highly productive folks, like to keep their taskbar as clean as possible. Less clutter leads to less confusion leads to more productivity.
Do NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT (is that enough NOTs for you) bring Edgium to production without "pin to start menu". Otherwise I will NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER (is that enough NEVERs for you) recommend Edgium in our workplace.
The feature you want is already here.
go to any website, press the top-right menu button, navigate to Apps and select "install this site as an app". it will make a shortcut of that page in the start menu. this way it's also easier to mange all of the pins in the start menu from a central location which is in: edge://apps/
it also allows you to set permissions for every single one of those pins, great feature for enterprise users.
- The number one thing I'm waiting for is an option to use "MRU Tab-switching with Ctrl-Tab" … mirroring the functionality of Alt-Tab in windows, and working just like other tabbed user interfaces... from Visual Studio, to SSMS, to Notepad++, to the old IE, and even Firefox.
It's criminal that Edge won't/doesn't have this feature, and lack of this feature is the number one reason I don't use Chrome. Please add it, ASAP. I have decades of muscle memory that are thwarted every time I hit Ctrl-Tab and don't see the expected page. - This post of yours made me think that you really noticed my feed-backs. Let's see if they get implemented. Otherwise, I was thinking, team opens the mailbox and ta-da! countless mails falling down.
I don't understand why there should be an option to sign in with G account in Edge?
Please, just keep Edge as far as possible from Google's tentacles...
- Fully agree, we do not need MS Chrome
- There is no MS Chrome either. it's just Microsoft taking Chromium open-source engine, improving it a lot and modifying it based on their needs, then integrating it with the rest of their codes to make the new Edge insider.
do you call Opera browser, Opera chrome? Vivaldi browser, Vivaldi chrome? Yandex browser, Yandex chrome? just because they are using the chromium engine? Nope. so this new Edge browser is just Microsoft Edge.
- Google isn't letting users login with Microsoft account in Chrome, so i don't know why Microsoft should do this in favor of Google.
I don't understand why people are having problem with the rounded-corner tabs. The context menus with rounded corners are perfect and if I remember correctly, this design will be used throughout the whole OS in the future. Please do not change this. We need consistency. All we need is something like this:
https://twitter.com/itsMichaelWest/status/1126474855958876160/photo/1
and/or
https://twitter.com/itsMichaelWest/status/1143953352662953986/photo/2
By adding more Fluent, the browser will look very different (which means different from Chrome). The download manager is horrifically bad right now, we need a hub, just like in the old Edge (or the second link above).
And please, add the "do not close with the last tab" option.
One more thing, when you start working on the new tab page, please take a look at ho Opera solved the problem.
This is an old screenshot but whatever, I think it looks awesome: https://i.imgur.com/QfQ6wGH.png- Oh don't get me wrong, the download page is great, I just want some kind of a "mini download manager", to quickly access your last 10 or 20 downloads (like in Opera, it really works great). I've always hated how Chrome handled downloads. That stupid bar at the bottom has no place in a modern browser.
David Rubino Please don't bloat this. Less is more when it comes to web browsers. Please check how many people are using a feature in Edge before putting it in this.
- I think, people should have the option to enable or disable these features. That will be a win win situation for everyone.
This is a great plan for the future of the Edge insider. I hope the Edge team accept those suggestions after reviewing them, specially this one:
- Bring back features from the current version of Microsoft Edge such as tab set aside, tab preview, "Ask Cortana", and the reading list
