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Installed most recent Edge Dev but it's completely unusable on several Surfaces, freezes on Type Cover close, kills any keyboard/touch input in classic Edge Application Guard window, drains battery in sleep, doesn't suspend properly, every now and then kills face unlock and other sensors in device manager. Once fully uninstalled everything goes back to normal. Missing plenty of inking features, no favourites sync with IE. Is much slower than the classic Edge. No privacy options/app permissions in Windows Settings. On LTE devices keeps loosing Internet while travelling, where the classic Edge is fine. Overall experience very negative, too many issues. Is it ever going to be as good as the classic Edge?
PeteMSTechCom wrote:Installed most recent Edge Dev but it's completely unusable on several Surfaces, freezes on Type Cover close, kills any keyboard/touch input in classic Edge Application Guard window, drains battery in sleep, doesn't suspend properly, every now and then kills face unlock and other sensors in device manager. Once fully uninstalled everything goes back to normal. Missing plenty of inking features, no favourites sync with IE. Is much slower than the classic Edge. No privacy options/app permissions in Windows Settings. On LTE devices keeps loosing Internet while travelling, where the classic Edge is fine. Overall experience very negative, too many issues. Is it ever going to be as good as the classic Edge?
There won't be syncing between IE and new Edge.
the only sync that is going to happen will be between Edge insider channels (stable, beta, dev, canary) on all devices they are installed on (PC, laptop, mobile, Mac, soon Linux too probably), but no legacy syncing.
It's not good, I find the option to sync favourites between classic Edge and IE is important in business environment, especially using roaming profiles. The should be an option to sync and edit favourites between browsers on a local basis (device, LAN, Bluetooth, WiFi, etc), without resourcing to cloud.
- The idea is to move businesses, enterprises and literally everyone from the old IE to the new Edge experience without breaking any websites. for more compatibility, more security and lots of other advantages.
more info here: https://mybuild.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions/77794
Edge insider allows you to import favorites from Internet explorer, also lets you run sites using IE engine inside Edge insider's browser UI.
of course you can configure all of these options for a smooth transition using group policy and MDM solutions.
you can either use personal or work accounts to have the cloud back up your date for safe keeping but that is not forced, can be turned off.
is there any technical reasons that is preventing you from using cloud?
PeteMSTechCom
Wow, Pete, this different, bizarre and sad. Which Channel is behaving like this? Maybe, remove it & grab a new Download & install that. It's just odd one person can be problem-free & impressed & then, there's your experience. I find Edge C much fast to load than Edge HTML. It is missing Add notes & what the Favorites icon gives is less than expected & unappealing how Favs are handled. "No privacy options/app permissions in Windows Settings." Actually, yes, there are. There are, no denying it, some Feature issues, but, most are finding its performance better than anything.
Cheers,
DrewI tried Dev on several different Surface machines (Pro 5 LTE, Pro 6, 3 LTE, Go LTE) all of them on most recent W10 OS 1909 18363.476 with the same experience across all of them. Edge C freezing most of the time on Type Cover close, once reopened and logged in Edge C unresponsive. Edge C messing up face unlock, although in it's privacy setting camera and microphone access is disabled, every now and then on start of it the IR camera red light weirdly lights up and remains on until the browser is closed!!! When minimized for a longer period of time doesn't suspend and resumes properly like classic Edge. When completely closed Edge C doesn't update adblocker lists in the background like the classic Edge does. In the Windows Settings app Privacy section there is no a single slider related to Edge C. And the worse is messing up the Application Guard for classic Edge.
PeteMSTechCom
"In the Windows Settings app Privacy section there is no a single slider related to Edge C", Pete
I thought you were talking about Edge C's Settings. There won't be anything in the OS Settings as Edge C is not the OS's browser (yet).
Cheers,
Drew
