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Please -Bring over the classic Edge Favorits experience with pin-able side menu!
The Chrome experience with favorites is really subpar and hugely frustrating to use! This is my top peeve to new Chrome Edge..
If you have many favs in nested folders to navigate, the cascading menues overlap multiple times. Making it hard to get to your favorite shortcut and even a simple mistake (such as right clicking on wrong place, forces you to click outside of the popup menu, collapsing the whole tree down, or choosing the wonrg favorite, or hovering outside of the opened menu tree etc etc) cause the whole menu to collapse, forcing you to start over.
You can’t pin the chrome fav menu open to launch several favorites in rapid succession, you have to redo the whole process.
You cannot edit/move/delete favorites in the sidebar, you have to go to a separate view to do that, whereas in Edge classic it was super easy to do, just pin the favs open and manage away in place.
For comparison - see screenshots below
So: Please, please PLEASE… bring the Edge classic favorite experience back.Chromeium super frustrating menu
Edge Classic: clean, user friendly, easy to use + + +
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Thanks for posting about the issue, and for demonstrating the issue so clearly through your screenshots.
The Favorites UI has been a constant source of comment/complaint from the beginning, by me and many, many others.
Although I initially thought that Microsoft would resolve the problem (based on Elliot's response above), it does not seem that Microsoft intends to change the flyouts to a hierarchical list, because the issue no longer appears on the "Feedback" list.The Favorites UI is abominable, in a word. On a 11-13" laptop the UI is unusable, as flyouts quickly start to overlay each other and it becomes just about impossible to use the UI. As far as I am concerned, the UI also creates accessibility issues, because anyone trying to use the UI who has even slightly impaired small-muscle control and/or any level of hand tremor cannot use the menu at all.
I don't understand why Microsoft doesn't change this. For a significant number of people, the current Favorites UI is going to be a roadblock.
- "I don't understand why Microsoft doesn't change this. For a significant number of people, the current Favorites UI is going to be a roadblock."
doesn't Google chrome use the same style for bookmarks and still has lots of users? or is there any issues and differences between how Edge insider and Google chrome handle their bookmarks menu?- A couple of things on this I guess;
That there are a lot of Chrome users is not necessarily suggestive that the Chrome favorites experience is good, it might just mean that they accept it as a “lesser” problem for the “greater” overall benefit. – I won’t try to speak for them though, it’s just that for me the current Chrome experience is like stepping back a decade in user friendliness,
On the personal side of it is that I have seen/used and lived with the (imo) far superior classic edge fav experience, and as such also suffer from the clunky, user unfriendly and generally bad fav experience and thus would like to get the superior one rolled into Chromium.
As to the diff between Chrome and Chromium Edge users – it could be as simple that we on the Chromium Edge side of things actually know the subjectively better way whilst Chrome users might not have that previous experience?
FredrikStahlbrandtI completely agree with this comment. The favorite menu is like a library and mine has so many nested topics that it makes your head spin to navigate through the new construction. Also, the folders are topics or related links, so if you want to go from one link to another in the same folder, you have to navigate through the maze all over again. I remember when another of MSW versions was updated, I was frustrated by the loss of some features, but eventually got over it, but this is different. The only plus I can see is more screen acreage.
Hi:
I completely agree with your comment. Managing favorites is still a black dot in the new Edge. There are many open posts requesting solutions for current favorites.
As it seems that the subject is going for a long time, this is currently using the extension "Neater Bookmarks" that although it is not a wonder, in my case if it improves the navigation by the favorites, and solves the problem that you are posing in your post.
I hope that the development team will soon give us some joy with the management of favorites in the new Edge.
a greeting
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(Spanish)Hola:
Estoy completamente de acuerdo con tu comentario. La gestion de favoritos todavia es un punto negro en el nuevo Edge. Hay muchos post abiertos solicitando soluciones para los favoritos actuales.
Como parece que el tema va para largo, actualmente esto utilizando la extension "Neater Bookmarks" que aunque no es una maravilla, en mi caso si mejora la navegacion por los favoritos, y soluciona el problema que estas planteando en tu post.
Confio que el equipo de desarrollo pronto nos de alguna alegria con la gestion de favoritos en el nuevo Edge.
Un saludo
- Hi, just wanted to say that the forum automatically translate comments so don't worry about translating your comment manually, just write in your language "Spanish" and we will see the English translation automatically 🙂
- Nice comparison, everything is so clean and sleek in the Edge classic but looks messy in Edge insider
FredrikStahlbrandt
Fred,
Sure agree with you. Edge #1 looks like one expects, folders & expand, the usual kind of nav tree. Looks good. The other, not only what you said about a confusing & looking 'messy', but, just drab & dull, almost juvenile-ish. Edge #1 (approach) is far more intuitive, you're right about that.
Cheers,
Drew
