Dev channel update to 78.0.276.2 is live

Microsoft

Hello insiders, today we’re releasing build 78.0.276.2 to the Dev Channel!  We expect this to be the final build for major version 78, so it’s got a lot of fixes in it.  Some of the most noteworthy changes include: 

 

New features:

 

  • Added the ability to open all items in a Collection in new tabs.
  • Added dark theme support to edge://components.
  • Added a management policy for importing settings from another browser.

 

Stability fixes:

 

  • Fixed an issue where Edge failed to update with error “failed to cache the downloaded installer”.
  • Fixed an issue where printing webpages failed because the print preview got stuck while loading.
  • Fixed an issue where dragging and dropping favorites on the favorites management page sometimes leads to a crash.
  • Fixed a crash when using InPrivate.
  • Fixed some crashes when rotating PDFs.
  • Fixed an issue where using keyboard shortcuts when popups are open sometimes crashes the browser.
  • Improved reliability when playing videos protected with DRM.
  • Fixed an issue where Application Guard sessions failed to start.
  • Fixed an issue where clicking webpage controls quickly sometimes crashes the page.
  • Fixed an issue where the browser sometimes crashes when the OS data collection level is changed.

 

Improved behavior:

 

  • Fixed an issue where elements of certain web pages sometimes flip upside down when you switch tabs.  
  • Fixed an issue where browser UI like the video controls don’t disappear when watching videos on certain sites.
  • Fixed an issue where the top sites tiles on the new tab page display a different website than the one they actually link to.
  • Fixed an issue where translation doesn’t work on certain pages.
  • Fixed an issue where the “translating” message is not shown when a page is translated.
  • Fixed an issue where scrolling using the touchscreen sometimes doesn’t work on certain browser UI.
  • Fixed an issue where the button to close a tab isn’t the correct size or shape.
  • Fixed an issue where the links to apps on the browser’s Apps page open the app twice.
  • Fixed an issue where using shift + enter to start an installed website or app from the Apps page doesn’t work.
  • Fixed an issue where the eye icon to show passwords sometimes appears twice.
  • Improved Tracking Prevention performance when extensions like ad blockers are installed.
  • Fixed an issue where text pasted into a collection is sometimes the wrong color.
  • Fixed an issue where dragging and dropping items into a collection sometimes leads to images in the collection disappearing.
  • Fixed an issue on Mac where dragging and dropping an image into a collection sometimes saves a link instead of an image.
  • Fixed an issue on Mac where using the scrubber to move through a full-screen video doesn’t move the time properly.
  • Fixed an issue on Mac where some buttons don’t change state when the browser loses focus.
  • Fixed an issue in some locales where certain settings aren’t translated.
  • Fixed some unlocalized strings in the F12 Dev Tools.

 

Removed features:

 

  • Fixed an issue where the webpage favicon and the loading spinner appear at the same time.
  • Temporarily disabled with a feature flag the cards with website info that appear when hovering over a tab.
  • Removed the ability to import favorites inside an Application Guard session.

 

As always, we appreciate all of your feedback and suggestions! 

 

50 Replies

@mindst 

I've never had IE mode come on. I'm curious about which sites still only work with IE.

@Kailo_ 

That is really annoying, and I've had that problem too. How do you keep track of all those bookmarks? I use folders, so that only the folder is duplicated, but 900 bookmarks seems like a massive amount to keep track of. I really hope their working to fix this issue, but it only seems to affect me when I add something on a different browser or device.

@TanvirArjel  According to the 'Top feedback summary for September 17' page, this feature is planned for September.

 

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Top-feedback-summary-for-September-17/m-p/859547

@josh_bodner 
When will Collections sync become available?

 

@josh_bodner 

 

Favorites icon still needs fixing. So does the rest of the start menu

@Peter Dennington 

If you are asking when you can test it, you can now. Go to edge://flags/#edge-collections.

 

 

@cjc2112 I am already testing the feature and love it but I want them to sync between devices

I think instead of making  the pdf/ebook reader feature  on par with the old edge browser, it'll be better to convert the old browser into a standalone pdf/ebook reader. The old browser already has many features regarding pdf reading like note taking , annotations, offline dictionary, cortana, bookmarks, grammar tools and many more. It'll be really sad to kill the old browser completely.@josh_bodner 

Oh yeah. It's such a bug that it's more like feature. Guys from dev team, bring it back. Please.

@cjc2112 
Basically, every site that still uses ActiveX (almost all "chinesium" IP Cams relied on ActiveX to play the live video for years, maybe decades) is dependent on IE. I also happen to know an enterprise web app that interacts with the local scanner for digitizing documents and upload it to the app via ActiveX. For what I'm told, there are many enterprise applications still relying on IE for working correctly.

@sjoyce295 I also loved this new feature.  I almost bragged to my Chrome-using co-workers, but not I'm sad that it's gone....

I have to admit that I really liked the spinning favicons as well, and agree that it was a modern look. It also showed activity@Speednet  I hope MS reconsiders in the future.

@yoSachin 

That's actually not a bad idea, if they rename and rebrand it.

Oh! Great! Thank you for letting us know this. On which release can we get this please?

@Deleted I liked it too, but I didn't like that it was a tiny square poorly squished inside a circle. Maybe it could return with an improved look! For example, instead of just being shrunken, it could start out full size, but cropped into a circle, then the circle could fill out into a square when it finishes loading.

@WolfIcefang 

Just curious, what do you mean when you say "start out full size, but cropped into a circle? Do you mean that only the center part of the favicon is showing and then after the spinning circles stop it shows all of it?

@cjc2112Yeah, that's what I mean, though I guess with most favicons it wouldn't look great without shrinking it a little to fit it into the circle. I just never liked how the loading circle and square favicon overlapped.

I'm actually glad that the overlapping Favorite icon on the spinner is gone, I felt it was too much stuff going on at the same time and it felt unpolished/unprofessional. The good old spinners are much cleaner

A feature request from the public sector is the ability to digitally sign a pdf in Edge with a Smart Card. If the function was added to digitally sign a PDF with a Smart Card, many federal agencies wouldnt have to depend on the 3rd party application Adobe Reader for this function and could fully leverage Edge for PDFs instead. @David Rubino @josh_bodner