We're Listening!

[Elliot Kirk]

Greetings Microsoft Edge Insiders!

Let us start off by saying, welcome to the Microsoft Edge Insider community! We’re so excited to have you here, and we can’t wait to start learning from you. If you haven’t read our Welcome to the Microsoft Edge Insider community article yet, we recommend starting there. It has a bunch of great information on how we got here and where we’re heading.

Our mission:
Our mission is to create a thriving community of valuable Insiders, like you, so we can closely listen and learn how Microsoft Edge can be better. We believe that having open, honest, and continued conversations with our Insider community is a great way to build a close relationship with our users.

Why do all of this? Because we want to build a browser that’s deeply grounded in your needs. Your voice is the most important piece of helping us build a better Microsoft Edge. The feedback you provide leads to meaningful conversations that may ultimately produce the new features, bug fixes, and other improvements that matter the most to you. Listening is just the beginning for us. Our true goal is to build Microsoft Edge with the voice of the Insider community as our guiding light.

Community voice

When we announced the next version of Microsoft Edge back in December, we asked a simple question: If you could change one thing about the web, what would it be?

We were completely humbled by the over 40k comments you’ve shared with us. That’s a whole lot of ideas. Thank you!

You tell us that you love some things about the current Microsoft Edge browser, like the smooth scrolling experience, our Fluent Design and the precision touchpad, and you hope we’ll bring those things forward into the next version too.

Some of you are frustrated with the way that sites render so differently depending on the browser you're using to view them. You also tell us that Web Standards are on the top of your mind. We hear that you want all browsers to adopt the same standards. We hear from some of you web developers that you want new capabilities added to the web platform; whether that be in CSS, HTML or JavaScript. Another top request is an improved dev tools experience.

We hear that you have strong feelings about online advertising. Some of you wish ads that pop-up would just disappear and the same for auto-playing ads. While others feel a strong desire to remove or fundamentally change how online advertising works on the web. There is concern how these advertisements enable sites to track you as you browse which feels "creepy" and "invasive."

The overwhelming majority of comments (we’re talking thousands of messages) that we have read wish for a change in the fundamental attributes of the web. Make it faster, safer, more reliable and more private. You want your browsers to have smaller memory footprints, lower battery consumption, higher rendering speed and better stability. We agree with you wholeheartedly! The attributes that you say matter most in your browsing experience are performance, privacy, and reliability. So that is where we are starting.

We are focusing on delivering outstanding fundamentals. Speed, stability, accessibility, compatibility, security, and privacy are always top of mind for us. We are using your comments and suggestions to guide us while we are getting the new Microsoft Edge ready for its debut.

What’s next?
In the meantime, jump in, download the Microsoft Edge Insider Channels, and let us know what you think. What’s working well? Where do we need to improve? Over time, we hope to build healthy engagement and feedback loops with our community members.

We’re also mindful that our users have preferred ways to engage with us. Whether you view the latest information on the Microsoft Edge Insider website, enjoy direct discussions on our forum, need a personal support assistant via help (F1), share your feedback and suggestions via the smiley face, or just want to give us a shout on Twitter, we’re always listening and looking for ways to reach out wherever our users feel most comfortable and prefer to talk to us. We’re all ears!

Thank you for being here. We look forward to listening and engaging with you.

-The Microsoft Edge Team-

[#2]

@Elliot Kirk 

I downladed Edge Canary, and it's really fast and generally good. But, i really miss change default search engine function. It would be good if you add this :D

[#3]

Hi @Elliot Kirk 

It's a suggesiton not a bug

i like the fluent design and set tabs aside feature in the old edge so it would be great if you add those features in the upcoming versions of new edge

[#4]

@Elliot Kirk 
The autofill on Facebook does not load correctly. I manually have to load more posts.

[#5]

Just use the rendering Engine only ! Current Edge has far better UI including Favorite UI, Windows ink, Favorite panel. reading view , pdf reading and many .  so much better ! 

[#6]

Thank you @easyhoon for all of the feedback, and the suggestion for some skoosh. We did have a small toast at the end of the day yesterday to celebrate. I will make sure that the right teams get this feedback.
Elliot

[#7]

We have Edge for Android right now in the store. Here is the lilnk: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.emmx&hl=en_US

[#8]

Thanks for the feedback @Gunnar Haslinger, we are looking at the best ways to deliver our browsers to our customers. I will make sure that this feedback gets to the right folks here.
Elliot

[#9]

@Muxaulo, are there specific features in the PDF reader in the current version of Edge that you miss most? Also, I will make sure that the right teams get the feedback about the missing Pen support.
Elliot

[#10]

We want this too, but not until it is all the way ready. Please keep updating and using our preview channels and help us determine when we get there!
Thanks,
Elliot

[#11]

I share your excitement, @Deleted. Thank you for joining our community!
Elliot

[#12]

@Vbraz_1980s, thank you for the suggestions.

[#13]

@bob_wilton, great feedback from top to bottom.
Elliot

[#14]

You should be able to install the AdBlocker Ultimate if you allow extensions from other stores. I am not sure if or when the Microsoft Mouse Gestures would be available for the preview channels.
Elliot

[#15]

Thank you for the feedback, @Chris_S_. We support all of the same extensions as Chrome, I know that doesn't feel like a great response, so I will bring this feedback to the team.
Elliot

[#16]

We are looking at supporting multiple platforms, @JGjura. I will let the team know how you feel about making sure that Linux is one of them.
Elliot

[#17]

Hi @Drew1903, you can install Ad Block Ultimate from other stores, if you adjust the setting at the bottom left side of the Extensions page (edge://extensions/): "Allow extensions from other stores."
Elliot

[#18]

Thank you for your feedback @tekweb.

[#19]

You can change the search setting by visiting the site that hosts the search engine, and then do a search. At this point the search engine should show up in the search engine list on edge://settings/search.

[#20]

Hi @Chris2020, you should be able to install extensions after opening the Extension settings (edge://extensions/) and clicking on the "Allow extensions from other stores."
Elliot

[#21]

Thank you for the suggestion, @matthewclso.