Apr 08 2019 09:51 AM - edited Apr 08 2019 11:17 AM
Jul 14 2019 05:38 PM
Jul 15 2019 11:41 AM - edited Jul 19 2019 07:43 AM
@Damix Another thing to add: If the browser is opened and Dark Mode gets toggled, the browser's theme properly changes. However, this isn't true for the Console / Developer Tools (and maybe some other little components I haven't noticed) - it uses the previous theme until you close that sub-menu and open it up once again. It'd be great if this gets fixed as well, even if it is just a minor annoyance...
EDIT:
As of now, Settings and similar pages react the same way as the general UI when toggling Dark Mode - i.e., they properly transit from dark to light and reverse. However, Console and Developer Tools still need to be manually toggled (close them and then re-open them)!
Jul 24 2019 12:02 AM
@Damix Sadly I thing we're stuck with the "hey I'm not really Chrome (but I am)" design and UI but with some Windows icons. New Edge actually fits better into the design of Macs than it does on Windows. It is very easy (I have done this myself - I'm a developer) to make a window fit the themes of Win10, Win8x and Win7 so that it looks right on either one. I added it to one of our products in a morning.
This is a real shame as it looks like New Edge is simply going to offer the look, feel and functionality of Chrome with a few extensions loaded. MS could have done something special but they have taken the easy route. There will be no compelling reason for those that have Chrome installed to swap over - none at all.
As for removing a whole load of functionality - don't get me started! Perhaps if enough people don't use the new one they'll decide that Egde Classic was always better than New Edge (that's a joke).
Aug 05 2019 04:51 AM
Aug 05 2019 08:01 AM
Well if they don't add those things "back", the new Edge is going to fail hard (again). They need to be better than any other browser out there. I also think it's time to see some Fluent, the current version looks almost exactly like Chrome and I hate that. Even this would be much better than the current version: https://twitter.com/itsMichaelWest/status/1126474855958876160/photo/1
Aug 30 2019 02:50 AM
Sep 02 2019 02:34 PM
It would also be good to implement Aero Peek feature again. It can be useful but long ago Google Chrome dropped the support for it. Maybe it's time for a comeback?
Sep 02 2019 02:44 PM - edited Sep 02 2019 05:34 PM
@coffee351
Sorry, don't know your name but, Welcome
Windows, also, dropped Aero quite a long while back and it is not coming back. It is, actually, an OS thing not, a browser thing. We have to enjoy Acrylic and Transparency effects .
Cheers,
Drew
Sep 05 2019 12:57 AM - edited Sep 05 2019 12:58 AM
Maybe I used the wrong term.
Aero is not going anywhere - all the effects are still intact. Only transparency is missing but it can be re-enabled with the utility "Aero Glass for Win8+". Nobody removed Aero's code, including transparency. What I'm mentioning is previewing multiple tabs from the taskbar. Like in IE - open a couple of tabs then hover on the icon.
Sep 08 2019 09:51 AM
Hi @coffee351, I don't believe that the current plan is to show peeks of every open tab. Our current version of Microsoft Edge only shows the active tab on each browser window. If you feel strongly that we need a peek for every open tab, please go ahead and send us a smiley with that feedback. Thanks - Elliot
Sep 08 2019 07:06 PM
@Elliot Kirk @coffee351
Elliot, If I am understanding this correctly, I am going to be bold enough to correct you. We are talking page "Thumbnails". I cannot supply a snip as it won't hold for a 'picture'. Anyway, in Edge, with multiple tabs going in a single browser window... hoovering at each of the tabs, each and every one, will/does show a thumbnail picture of ALL of them; not, just only the Active tab. Try it, open several sites in 1 Edge window & hoover at each one...
Cheers,
Drew
Sep 09 2019 07:05 AM
I think you mean this right? @Drew1903
I hope that thumbnail previews on tabs would return, alongside with that optional show tab previews always button just on the right side of new tab button.
Sep 09 2019 10:52 AM - edited Sep 09 2019 12:42 PM
@archtech
Sorry, I don't know your name, but, yes, that is what I mean... good you managed a 'photo'. And, good mention of the Show tab previews which, I should have included. I have to admit, some Edge pieces we have come to take for granted as 'standard equipment' that is kind of unnatural to have to be pointing them out specifically & individually to the Edge C Build Team, repeatedly. I cannot recall when we 1st started mentioning Thumbnails, for example & here we are, STILL, mentioning it. Is it being heard? Are they working it? Is it coming? Same questions existing about this and other pieces, too...
Cheers,
Drew (not, at drew 1903)
Sep 11 2019 01:30 AM - edited Sep 11 2019 01:32 AM
I have already done that. That's a good idea and it's a shame Chrome dropped it. Thank you.
Sep 27 2019 06:20 PM
Sep 30 2019 02:16 PM
@thatpitter Can I argue about the Fluent design? There is a possibility to enable rounded corners search window in May 2019 update. Here's the outcome: http://www.thevista.ru/files/images/uploads/2019/06/rounded_corners_in_windows_10.png
So rounded corner may be a future for not only Mac OS, but to Windows as well (bringing back the old window look?). I like the tabs straight though, no need to copy Chrome here.
But honestly, in Windows 8 straight window corners, specially with the "Aero Lite" theme looked straight out of Windows 95.
Oct 23 2019 04:40 PM - edited Oct 23 2019 04:43 PM
Really like these suggestions. I would also like to bring back Edge Classic's reader mode, either as an extension or built into Edge. Having Favorites, Downloads and History open up in a pane with tabs would be great.
Please, also bring back tab previews. Give the user the option to choose between showing the tab preview on the taskbar, when hovering over tabs, both or none.
Oct 23 2019 04:58 PM - edited Oct 23 2019 05:00 PM
@Miguel Ulloa
Miguel, if you are meaning Reading view, it IS, now, in Edge C; has been for a while, actually.
And, just introduced is Reading list... imported from Edge.
I have to agree, the approach to things (menus, structure, access) in Edge is preferred; somehow more intuitive in how it's organized or done.
One thing, for me, is having items in ellipsis done as a new full window tab of its own... that seems ridiculous, to me; much prefer the Edge method in that regard.
Cheers,
Drew
Oct 23 2019 09:30 PM
@makuc
Yes, every time someone new comes along the same stuff is mentioned repeated. That would likely be lessened if for a Roadmap. And, although, I agree, in principle, I have a theory. I think it's Everest or the moon...never been done before, never been there before, new, unfamiliar challenges. This project is "breaking new ground", certainly, for MS. (1) Being open source and Chromium-based not HTML and (2) the cooperation & collaboration between surprisingly unexpected partnerships <--- that deserves kudos in & of itself. There was a time when nobody would have ever thought a day would come of MS anything playing nicely with Apple, Android, Google, Linux & more. Times sure have changed and for the best/better, I might add.
Cheers,
Drew