Top feedback summary for August 29

David Rubino 

Also for the sake of all loyal Microsoft users, don't add the feature to login with Google account in Microsoft Edge browser. you've spent lots of times removing Google services from the engine, it doesn't make sense to add them again.

Only do it After Google adds login with Microsoft account to their Chrome browser first.

David Rubino 

They seem good but one of the most important one is missing:

Ability to attach custom screenshots when sending Feedback using smiley button.

there are lots of Feedbacks about UI and other bugs missing because the auto screen capture feature is not enough and won't work in many situations. because when we click on the smiley button, that situation and bug will be gone and we won't be able to capture it with the current tool. we have to use another tool such as Windows' snipping tool or Snip & Sketch.

These tools i mentioned have the ability to be launched using a keyboard button like PrintScrn.

so no mouse movement or mouse click will intervene.

Alternative is to Add a shortcut button to launch the "Send Feedback" inside Edge insider browser.

David Rubino - thank you for the updates. A few notes from me:

- make the address bar smaller. A "normal" 9pt font is enough there

- cut a few pixels from the favorites bar

- enable a "compact" mode like in, for example, the Mail app, which would make all menu items have less padding, similar to how the default context menu looks like in Explorer

- dark mode improvements: the new tab page should, of course, become darker. Reduce all kinds of white flicker when opening a new tab

- dark mode: a dark scrollbar is a must

- we need Edge to be the best possible demonstration of Fluent. Add acrylic stuff, reveal stuff, everything 😉 Rounded corners are fine

Minor stuff:

- add the ability to hide extension icons like in Vivaldi. Do not hide them in the [...] menu, just roll them into a single icon

- add the ability to disable all extensions for a particular website

- add separators to favorites, including the favorites bar

- don't just look at feedback sent by the feedback smiley icon, but also this forum 😉

- add "show image" to context menu, besides the "open image in new tab". 

- add a context menu to all possible places in the UI. I see my profile icon and don't want to? Let me right click it and select "hide profile icon", etc.

- change DirectWrite contrast value for fonts to make them more like in original Edge and Firefox. The letters in Chromium based browsers are often too thin

- make pinned tabs impossible to close, for example, if the browser crashes for some reason and I don't click the 'restore tabs' option, the browser should start with a home tab *and* previously pinned tabs

edit to add:

- the favorites icon shows my favorites bar list, it should only show "other favorites"

- add the ability to move the toolbar buttons

- add "rewind" and "fast forward" buttons. Could be as an advanced appearance setting if considered confusing to some users

That's about it for now 😉

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David Rubino wrote:

 

Status	Feedback	On this list for
Under Review	Update the user interface with the Fluent Design System, including less rounded tabs	1 week

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So does this mean you will make it look like the old edge UI because that one was much better and gave edge its own distinctive feeling.

Sadly no mention of the one thing without which I cannot use Edge as my day to day browser - middle-button click (or  something else easy to do single handed) on a favorite e.g in the favorite bar folder drop-down menus (but also on favorites in the --- menu) opening the favorite in a background tab but leaving the menu (and any submenus) open for opening further favorites without having to re-open and re-navigate to them.

The lack of this is why I have never used Google Chrome as my browser, and so long as Edge lacks it I won't do more than odd bits of testing on Edge either.

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David Rubino wrote:

Hello insiders, as we explained in our post last week, we’ll be providing regular updates that summarize the most significant feedback we’re hearing from you and offer the latest status on each item. We’ve intentionally kept our descriptions of each item as simple as possible so that the list is easy to read, but if you have questions about any item please feel free to raise them by commenting on this post.

Here is the updated list of top feedback:

 

Status	Feedback	On this list for
Planned for October	“Administrator Mode Detected” error message when opening the browser	1 week
Planned for October	ClickOnce deployment of Windows applications from web pages	1 week

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These 2 can be fixed/turned on via Flags in the latest version of Canary

Also agree 100% with HotCakeX suggestion about the ability to send more pictures.  One is just not enough to show the real problem.  

David Rubino 

Dennis5mile

David Rubino 

Favorites button is about 75% done I'd say

It was 100% done until someone changed the icon from the correct one (classic edge has four bars) to this three bar one. Please revert this completely unneded change. It just breaks existing screenshots in instructions and so on without creating any new value

Besides from that the button is good. Now we want the submenu in favorites 😉

David Rubino 

Please fix: Edge automatically signs me into accounts when the Settings>Profiles>Passwords>Sign in automatically = Off

Please add:

- More granular control of tracker exceptions directly from address bar fly-out. 

- Add granular control on individual script exceptions directly from address bar fly-out.  Brave Beta browser (= Edge Dev) has this feature and it's great.

David Rubino 

I'm glad to know that some things I proposed are being considered.
Thanks.