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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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Please is there any chance that the WEB NOTES is coming to Mac OS Edge?
The Web Note feature is fantastic in the Windows 10 version, and it would be lovely to see that feature in the Mac OS version.
I think this feature will certainly make the browser standout on Mac, as Chrome only have this feature as a plugin in which is nothing compared to the inbuilt Web Note feature in Edge on Windows 10.Thanks for your kind consideration.
- WebNotes are awesome, specially their tight integration with Microsoft OneNote.
can save a lot of time. instead of printing the web page to PDF first and then use 3rd party software to take notes or highlight it, we can do it right from the browser quickly.
Hi All,
This is a great read. Thank you for taking the time to advocate for the features and changes that you would like to see in the next version of Microsoft Edge. The list that we shared is our top feedback by number of individual instances, and with over 140,000 pieces of feedback received already, it only represents a small sliver. We are going to post the list of top feedback on a regular cadence in an effort to transparently show you how we use your feedback to make our product decisions. I fully expect things to drop off this list as they get worked on, or as priorities change. Things can also pop back on if we get it wrong. We really appreciate having you along with us on this journey, and your feedback so far has made the next version of Microsoft Edge better. Please keep sending us your suggestions and let us know how you think that we are doing, good or bad! Thanks - Elliot
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,
DrewI 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.
- "A round of improvements to scrolling experience, with more (including performance) to come down the line"
"Bring back features from the current version of Microsoft Edge such as tab set aside, tab preview, "Ask Cortana", and the reading list"
"Update the user interface with the Fluent Design System, including less rounded tabs"
"Allow sign-in to the browser with a Google account"
I CAN'T WAIT for those, specially the two last ones!
One think I'd like to add: bring the context menu's design and animations from the start menu (it animates starting from where it was clicked and has the acrylic effect.)
This would be great for consistency and it looks amazing! David Rubino Kindly Add option to customize keyboard shortcuts for various tasks like open settings, new tab page, extensions etc. Customization to keyboard shortcuts is provided in browsers like opera and vivaldi. This could be a much needed function to many of the users who love to customize the things, the way they like.
Microsoft, please listen to us, you seem to select only what you want to hear. We don't like IE icon you are using on this browser. Can I repeat that again, we hate your old ugly IE icon - we started seeing this icon in Windows 95 and you're still using it in 2019. Do you remember how ugly the 90's websites used to look like, and you guys are so stuck in the past using an icon designed in the 90's and you expect people to embrace your browser in 2020!
Millennials form the bulk of internet users right now and we are the ones who will drive the growth of this browser. You can't use an old design that you introduced to us when we were kids and expect us to use it when we are at the peak of our productive lives. What makes you think we will keep using any browser with IE legacy. Which millennial wants to drive a 1995 car today? Show me one. We all want to drive the latest models of our favorite brand of cars. Majority of users do want to be in the same boat with you, being stuck in the past, if that is what you enjoy.
This blue "e" icon invokes a feeling of an old, ugly, slow and clunky browser simply because it looks like IE that we all hated. Why would you push something that people hated? Tell the old rigid guys if you have them on your team, that it's time to change. The world is ready to change, but Microsoft is not ready. Is there a company that has not re-branded since 1995? Well, Microsoft doesn't want to re-brand, it's still stuck in the past.
Microsoft, I hope you're listening and feeling our frustration.
David Rubino David! Now that I can use all my extensions on Edge, there's one single feature that still keeps me on Firefox: "send tab to device". It's essential to my workflow since I can talk to clients, get references and links from them and just dump those to my computer at home. This way, everything I need to get working right away is there waiting for me.
Do you have any time frame for this feature to get added back to the new Edge?
Hi,
I just wanted to point out that there is the ability to send tabs and links to mobile device using the Your Phone app.
the good thing about it is that you don't need to have Edge on Android. it works even with the built in Chrome browser because it only relies on the Your Phone app.
use the Share button on Edge canary (soon will be added to the Dev and so on) then choose Your Phone and in a few seconds it will appear on your mobile phone.
- This is nice, thanks for the heads up. Now half of the equation is solved! I wonder if you could help me to figure out the following: from Edge on Android, I have two options using the "send to computer" button, "send to my computer" and "send a notification to computer". The first one does show my computer but if I select it nothing happens. The second one does send a notification to my machine but if I click it the notification disappears and nothing is opened. Any ideas on why this happens?
David Rubino Is there any possibility for a sidebar extension API, like in Vivaldi, Opera or Firefox? particularly for showing tabs in a tree like the tree style tabs extension. I also miss the session save functionality that came baked into previous Edge, is that coming back?
- Other than some minor issues, this brand new microsoft edge is fantastic.
Jeme950
Yes, even in these early stages seems that it is being received with widespread very enthusiastic positive response. And that's in spite of whatever hiccups or pieces Folks are awaiting with baited breath (wink).
Surely they can't all be wrong LOL
If this is the (majority) view, now, imagine the re-action there'll be (to the version) when it ultimately goes live...
Cheers,
Drew
When you're talking abour tab preview, is it the tab preview bar? I really love it and think it's what makes Edge the better browser for me. It is really useful on tablets when you have a lot of tabs. I even use it daily at work. I really miss this feature.
Thanks.
