Aug 21 2019 11:15 AM - edited Aug 21 2019 12:19 PM
Hello insiders, we have a lot to share today! In addition to releasing build 78.0.249.1 to the Microsoft Edge Dev Channel, we’re also very excited to announce that as of yesterday, we’re making the Beta channel available to download from https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com! The Beta Channel will see major updates every 6 weeks with periodic minor updates for bug fixes and security. We intend for it to be our most stable insider channel, so it will have a lower version than the Dev and Canary channels and lack some of the features that those channels have. To learn more, you can read our blog post here: https://blogs.windows.com/blog/2019/08/20/introducing-microsoft-edge-beta-be-one-of-the-first-to-try....
To mark the occasion, we’re also proud to announce the availability of some long-awaited features. First, Tracking Prevention is fully available in the Canary and Dev Channels! For those who need a refresher, you can read our initial blog post announcing the feature here: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/06/27/tracking-prevention-microsoft-edge-preview.
Next, form fill and password syncing is fully available in the Canary and Dev Channels! Those of you who are already signed into the browser with your Microsoft account should see the switches for both Passwords as well as Addresses, phone numbers, and more enabled on edge://settings/syncSetup. And if you’ve got Microsoft Edge installed on your mobile device, form and password syncing will be coming there as well.
EDIT: As of today, sign in and syncing is available for work and school accounts in all three channels! Like syncing for personal accounts, there are certain types of items like history that aren't available to sync just yet but will be coming in the future. To learn more, you can read our blog post here: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/08/21/sign-in-sync-work-school-accounts-aad-websso.
Finally, we’re beginning to roll out Collections! For right now, Collections is only available in the Canary Channel. You can read our blog post here for information about how to try it out: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/08/20/collections-now-available-microsoft-edge-preview.
Some other new features this week:
Stability fixes:
Behavior fixes:
As always, we appreciate all the feedback you give us, and we hope you try out the Beta Channel and tell us what you think!
Aug 21 2019 12:13 PM
The long awaited feature we want is the favorites button.
The button you still failed to put back there it belongs
I thought that I today finally should be able to switch to Edge Chromium as my default browser but since it still is broken - Edge classic will be my browser
Aug 21 2019 12:44 PM - edited Aug 21 2019 12:47 PM
Since Google Chrome extensions work with Edge Insider it opens up many doors to add what your looking for. You could try this extension for example.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/neater-bookmarks/ofgjggbjanlhbgaemjbkiegeebmccifi
or
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/minimal-bookmarks-tree/mohenkbngkbmdlkiemonbgdfgdjacaeb
Aug 21 2019 01:14 PM
I thought I was the only one hoping for that button! Thanks for posting!
Aug 21 2019 01:53 PM
Aug 21 2019 03:19 PM
No. None of those will do. They do not provide the right icon (exactly the same one as in Edge classic)
Neither should you have to be dependent on a third party to provide basic standard Edge functionality.
MS do have the code written and done. It's in Canary and has been since 242.
They issue is that they still refuse to push it further. Based on the amount of feedback given on how important this is It should simply have been put it in dev a few weeks ago and it should also have been in the beta released today.
Aug 21 2019 04:35 PM
Absolutely. This and support for the Windows Share charm. The two things I miss most about Edge Classic.
Aug 21 2019 04:47 PM
@matsmcp If you go to settings > appearance there is a toggle to turn on "show favorites button". Strangely this setting isn't in the Canary version yet which I would assume it would have there before it the Dev builds.
Aug 21 2019 04:53 PM
Aug 21 2019 06:48 PM
Aug 21 2019 07:16 PM
@josh_bodner Most awaited features are:
1. Option to completely hide the news feed.
2. Two rows for pinned sites and mostly visited sites.
3. Pinned and mostly visited sites should be drag and drop-able to change the position.
Thanks
Aug 21 2019 07:24 PM
Not even a single issue fixed that I've been submitting for last 6 **bleep**ing months.
Aug 21 2019 07:37 PM
Hope a migration of Mouse Gesture plugin of built in Edge to Edge C, or some built in mouse gesture support.
The microsoft one is better than any other plugin in Chrome Store
Aug 21 2019 08:11 PM
Hit this issue right out of the gate. Not very obvious what is needed. I have to stumble across edge://sync-internals/ to find the message "Microsoft Information Protection service is disabled" which led me to:
Can someone confirm minimum requirements to get sync working with work accounts?
Aug 21 2019 10:06 PM
Aug 21 2019 10:09 PM
I, too, find the following items sorely missing:
Favorites: a button like in the original Edge and also the handling of the Favorites plane. By this I mean the ability to keep a subfolder open and not having to click on it every time you want to choose the next bookmark in this subfolder.
New Tab Page:
Ability to choose a blank page. No pictures, no feeds, no search bars, no nothing. Just a white (in light mode) or black/dark grey (in dark mode) panel.
Otherwise: keep up the good work!
Aug 21 2019 11:46 PM
@josh_bodner Please make an even more robust way to manage Bookmark, like the one in Firefox. That will make this browser almost perfect in my eyes. Having almost a thousand of bookmark, it's quite a chore whenever I try to tidying it up.
Everything else is sailing smoothly. The new Edge is my new go to Browser for work PC now, it's smooth and seamless. Keep it up.
Aug 22 2019 12:03 AM
Aug 22 2019 12:53 AM
@josh_bodner Location Tracking broke in this version, yesterday everything worked.
I cannot use Open Setting because I have a corporate version and this settings are controlled by domain policy.
In Google Chrome Location Tracking work fine.
Can you do anything at all normally or not?
How can I return Location Tracking? Why are there no problems in Google Chrome?