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Dev channel update to 80.0.345.0 is live
Hello insiders, today we’re releasing build 80.0.345.0 to the Dev channel! We’ve also got an exciting update over on our blog about how our Tracking Prevention feature is evolving: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/12/03/improving-tracking-prevention-microsoft-edge-79.
Before we get to all the most noteworthy changes, it’s worth mentioning something that hasn’t changed: favorites sync is still disabled for most people in order to prevent some crashes and favorites duplication. However, if you’re currently syncing with Edge mobile, your favorites sync hasn’t been disabled, so if you’re experiencing Edge crashing shortly after startup, it’s likely that your favorites sync is still enabled.
Added features:
- Added support for erasing ink using the eraser side of a pen.
- Added support for using the arrow keys and spacebar to draw on feedback screenshots in editor mode.
- Added SmartScreen protection from downloading potentially unwanted apps.
- Added Extensions and Collections toggles to the sync Settings page but keeping them disabled in anticipation of syncing for those data types being enabled soon.
- Added dark theme support to certain UI that appears when the browser is managed by Group Policy.
- Added dark theme support to the local new tab page that is shown when the device isn’t connected to the internet.
- Added a group policy to enforce whether or not headers and footers are added to printed pages.
Improved reliability:
- Fixed an issue where highlighting text on a webpage sometimes causes a browser crash.
- Fixed an issue where right-clicking sometimes crashes the browser.
- Fixed an issue where the browser UI sometimes appears to hang or turn all black, but it still responds to input and can be fixed by killing the GPU process.
- Fixed an issue where using Read Aloud sometimes crashes the tab.
- Fixed a crash on Mac.
- Fixed an issue where Netflix playback fails on certain machines.
- Fixed an issue where exporting a Collection to Word sometimes fails.
- Fixed an issue where adding multiple pages to a Collection from the same tab sometimes fails.
- Fixed an issue where exporting a Collection to Excel sometimes fails or overwrites an existing exported Collection.
Changed behavior:
- Fixed an issue where users that are signed into Windows with a work or school account are unable to remove the “Work” account that is automatically added to Edge.
- Removed the link to Manage Favorites from the Other Favorites folder on the Favorites Bar.
- Changed the button in Settings that switches which profile is active to open a window to a new tab instead of to Settings.
- Fixed an issue where typing the address of a website that’s already been visited doesn’t properly autocomplete the name of the website in the address bar dropdown.
- Fixed an issue where some of the privacy links in the First Run Experience open in a new tab in the background instead of in a popup.
- Fixed an issue where clicking links in a Collection sometimes causes the Collections pane to show an error page.
- Fixed an issue where adding an item to a Collection sometimes causes a second empty card to appear as well.
- Fixed an issue where a Collection that’s updated in one window sometimes isn’t updated in another window.
- Fixed an issue where Collections that are exported to Word sometimes don’t have the images get properly exported.
- Fixed an issue where items exported from a Collection have an incorrect date applied to each reference.
- Fixed an issue where invalid URLs can be dragged and dropped into a Collection.
- Fixed an issue where uninstalling PWAs or installed websites doesn’t also prompt to delete browsing data for that site.
Known issues:
- The Settings page appears too big/zoomed in on certain machines.
- There are some issues where users with multiple audio output devices sometimes don’t get any sound from Edge. In one case, Edge becomes muted in the Windows Volume Mixer and unmuting it fixes it. In another, restarting the browser fixes it.
- At certain zoom levels, there is a noticeable line between the browser UI and the web contents.
- Jumplist entries are not consistent between the Start Menu and the Task Bar for some users. We believe this is due to the shortcut on the Start Menu not getting migrated properly after an Edge update and are working on a fix. Additionally, after getting the update for the new icon, there are still places on the Start Menu, for example when searching, that still show the old icon. Other places like the Task Bar may be able to be fixed by un-pinning and then re-pinning any Edge shortcuts that already exist there.
As always, we’re very thankful for all of your usage and feedback!
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Is there any chance that we can get an Option in the setting to hide the new collections button from the bar like we can do it with the favorite or feedback button? :3
Im am not really working with collections so it would be nice to be able to hide this icon from the bar.
Greetings 🙂
- There's already a post suggesting that on these forums! Search for it and it'll show up. Please upvote it!
- link? 😉
Hi,
Unless I've missed it somehow, has preventing videos from auto playing ever been fully implemented yet ? Since I also use firefox from time to time, that's one great feature they've already included in their options/settings area. That's always been one of my pet peeves with any browser. Like with google chrome I'm forced to use an extension to try and help with that. Actually, I have the same extension installed with edge dev. version: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autoplaystopper/ejddcgojdblidajhngkogefpkknnebdh
David
- I really miss the autoplay options like "require user gesture" and stuff. I don't like muted autoplay personally.
- I also like it, Autoplay is harmless as long as I have an adblocker extension that makes ad videos disappear ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
- Looks like it's postponed to the next year
"Finally, there’s one topic which we’re putting back in this list. In September we shipped the ability for users to limit or block autoplay via settings. Unfortunately, after several bug reports and some investigation, it turns out that the “block” functionality in the browser didn’t actually block autoplay and we turned this feature off in mid-October. We still want to ship a great autoplay experience that includes full block and granular control over what sites can and cannot autoplay, but don’t want to roll out a broken experience in the meantime. We’re sorry for the confusion and takeback, and hope to have things working well sometime next year."
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Top-feedback-summary-for-December-3/m-p/1044780
but it did work at some points
- Touchpad and touchscreen scrolling has become painfully choppy on this build with 200% scaling. Anyone else experiencing this?
Need to disable experimental scrolling to get the proper scrolling behavior back (mouse wheel) Not sure if this is intended, but it feels too choppy with it on.
Overlay scrollbar, any chance we're going to see this?
josh_bodner all https connection stop to work with 80.0.345.0.
welzewool Any luck with your https links?
I'm also getting a "Your connection isn't private" error.
All flowing ok with Chrome, but I do remember Chrome had a similar issue a few months back.
Could we be missing some configuration?
Jorge Carvalho I dont change anything.
My problem looks like:
With Chrome everything works fine. Version 80.0.355.1 (Official build) dev (64-bit) - the same 😞
- On Google Doc, please enable "make available offline" (only works on chrome)
josh_bodner
Josh, thanks for the info. I have read through the comments following this latest Update/Build.
FWIW, have 345 on both 1909 and 2004 and both are running just fine. No mini overlay window, no crashing, touch keyboard works fine, everything, so far, seems a-ok. Oh and Fav Bar "icons only" stay as set. As so often, possible 'bugs' not necessarily universal.
Cheers,
DrewSync status is still "broken"
it's better to keep a backup of your favorites somewhere else for safe keeping
Touch keyboard broken for a month.
might be time to put on the buglist
After all, It's a rather poor experiance that MS edge doesn'r work on MS Surface running MS Windows
josh_bodner Not sure if its related but Edge updated for me today and I had three BSOD for memory management. I was in Edge at the time.
Dale_Wrobel wrote:josh_bodner Not sure if its related but Edge updated for me today and I had three BSOD for memory management. I was in Edge at the time.
Hiif you're not sure, you can find out what caused the BSOD with these tools
BlueScreenView
https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html
(free)
WhoCrashed
https://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed
(free & paid)
The file picker and save dialog is blurry and scaled up now instead of sharp and crisp. I'm running Edge in 125% scaling but the dialog appears to be on 100% scaling and scaled up by Windows. Does this happen to anyone else? Do newer canary builds also show this behavior?
adrianghc getting this as well, It's really annoying seeing blurry save as dialog in 2019
