Top Feedback Summary for August 24

Microsoft

Greetings, Insiders! We are back with our Top Feedback update this week with a few changes! While we were gone, some items were addressed in our Dev and Canary channels, some are already seen in our Stable channel, and we’ve decided to not plan one of the other items. Let’s hop into it!

 

First up, what is being marked as Addressed! Y’all should spot that we’ve been working hard on tab preview and see it in both our Dev and Canary channels now. However, we’ll continue to make iterations on it, so this is a reminder to let us know your thoughts or any issues you spot by submitting feedback directly through the browser (see below for those steps if you are unfamiliar with them). With that, Bring the tab preview feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge is now marked as Addressed. We’re also considering Allow more than one row of top sites on the New Tab Page as Addressed, since there is now an option to expand the number of top site rows available in the Custom settings for the new tab page. To change this setting, head to the new tab page, click the Settings gear icon and then select Custom. The line for Quick Links now has a drop down with options for 1 row, 2 rows, or disable the links altogether.

 

Finally, we have decided to mark Enable option to match Windows display language as Not Planned. We have found that most users have their languages aligned between the browser and Windows. However, if you spot that Edge is not honoring your Windows default language, the team wants to know! If you hold Alt+Shift+I while Edge is in focus on your Windows device, you can let us know what’s happening there so the team can dig in more.

 

That’s all for this week’s update! Check back with us next week to see where we are with your top feedback requests. Remember to let us know your thoughts and suggestions directly through the browser by heading to the menu > Help and feedback > Send feedback!

 

Here’s the updated list for this week:

 

Status

Feedback

On this list for

Addressed

Allow more top sites on the New Tab Page

77 weeks

Addressed

(View the discussion)

Bring the tab preview feature from Microsoft Edge legacy

105 weeks

Planned for July

Users can get back to where they left off in PDF documents

37 weeks

Planned

Add option to always open favorites in new tab

10 weeks

Planned

(Join the discussion)

Allow users to put individual tabs to sleep

11 weeks

Planned

Users can easily close Vertical Tabs

19 weeks

Planned

Enable search of items in Collections

25 weeks

Planned

Edge should respect the default PDF viewer

57 weeks

Planned

Restore tabs if Edge or the OS is restarted for any reason

58 weeks

Planned

Provide an option to prevent auto-play of video and audio when you open a website

105 weeks

Alternative Planned
(Join the discussion)

Bring the tab set aside feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge

105 weeks

In Discussion

(Join the discussion)

Add ability to close tabs via double-click

72 weeks

Under Review

Enable additional options for viewing downloaded files, such as the bottom of the window

15 weeks

Under Review

Users can move Vertical Tabs to the right side of the screen

21 weeks

Not Planned

Support mouse gestures for common actions like navigation and tab close

13 weeks

Not Planned

(View the discussion)

Allow sign-in to the browser with a Google account

23 weeks

Not Planned

Edge launches with previous session’s tabs when “On startup” setting is set to “Open a new tab”

25 weeks

Not planned

(View the discussion)

Bring the reading list feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge

35 weeks

Not Planned
(View the
discussion)

Provide a transparent theme for the browser frame

43 weeks

Not Planned

(View the discussion)

Enable option to match Windows display language

43 weeks

Not Planned
(View the
discussion)

Make tabs more square and less rounded, like the current version of Microsoft Edge

47 weeks

Not Planned

MSA profile picture is not updating

56 weeks

 

And here’s the list of top “quality areas” that we’re actively working on in response to your feedback:

 

Bring more extensions to the extensions store

Edge should use less memory than it does

Edge should use less CPU than it does

Scrolling should feel smoother for web pages

Scrolling should feel smoother for PDF files

Opening a new tab is too slow

Update does not always work reliably

 

Definitions:

 

Addressed – Changes to address this feedback are visible to all users in the Canary and Dev channels.

Not Planned – We don’t currently plan to address this feedback, though we will continue to track it and reconsider our approach if needed.

Planned for… – We’re working on this and currently plan for it to be addressed in the Canary channel before the end of the month indicated.

Planned - We have reviewed this feedback and have a plan to address it. However, we aren't ready to share a target time frame just yet. 

Alternative Planned - We don’t currently plan to directly address this feedback; however, we are working on addressing this in the form of a new feature.

In Discussion – We’ve reviewed this feedback and to learn more we have started a discussion about it here in the Microsoft Edge Insider Forum.

Under Review – We are reviewing this feedback internally and do not have a plan to share at this time.

Quality Area – We will give extra weight to fixes and opportunities in this area. Please continue to report specific bugs and make specific asks. 

 

Archive of previously addressed topics:

 

Spoiler

 

Feedback

On this list for

Addressed on

Hide or shrink the title bar when vertical tabs are enabled

19 weeks

Jul 14, 2021

Users can find and manage their tabs more easily by organizing them into associated groups

23 weeks

Jul 14, 2021

Allow users to turn off the “Disable developer mode extensions” notification

28 weeks

Jun 23, 2021

The address bar and its text are too big, and should be smaller like Chrome
(View the discussion)

96 weeks

Jun 23, 2021

Allow users to adjust the width of the Vertical Tabs pane

1 week

Jun 9, 2021

Users would like more theme and customization options

12 weeks

Apr 30, 2021

Some web page fonts are blurry

48 weeks

Apr 7, 2021

Ask users if they want to close all tabs when they close a browser window

81 weeks

Apr 7, 2021

Add dictionary in PDF

31 weeks

Mar 23, 2021

Some passwords are not saved

25 weeks

Mar 16, 2021

Enable kiosk mode

16 weeks

Feb 9, 2021

Add option to remove previous search terms from the New Tab Page’s search box auto-suggestion list 

35 weeks

Feb 9, 2021

Enable vertical tabs feature

23 weeks

Jan 27, 2021

Enable customers to pin sites to Start Menu in Windows

26 weeks

Jan 27, 2021

Support two-page layout in PDF reader

32 weeks

Jan 27, 2021

Voice search on google.com doesn’t work

31 weeks

Dec 1, 2020

Enable sync of browsing history between devices

57 weeks

Dec 1, 2020

Add the ability to ink on web page content

57 weeks

Dec 1, 2020

Add "text notes" feature to PDF files

27 weeks

Nov 17, 2020

Update the user interface with the Fluent Design System
(View the discussion)

65 weeks

Nov 17, 2020

Enable customers to pin Favorites menu to the side of the screen

6 weeks

Nov 3, 2020

Make Edge available on Linux

(Download here)

39 weeks

Oct 20, 2020

Support themes from the Chrome Web Store
(Learn more)

60 weeks

Oct 15, 2020

Enable automatic generation of strong passwords

13 weeks

Sept 15, 2020

Enable navigation of PDF files via table of contents

31 weeks

Sept 15, 2020

Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files

55 weeks

Sept 9, 2020

Provide different options for sorting favorites
(View the discussion)

51 weeks

Aug 11, 2020

Bring the Ask Cortana feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge
(View the alternative)

50 weeks

Aug 5, 2020

Highlighter tool for PDF files

21 weeks

July 15, 2020

Mouse cursor sometimes disappears

(View the discussion)

11 weeks

June 24, 2020

Support read aloud of PDF files

20 weeks

June 9, 2020

Edge cannot find devices to cast media (Learn more)

16 weeks

May 19, 2020

Provide option to keep specific cookies when choosing to clear browsing data on close

21 weeks

Apr 7, 2020

Option to set a custom photo as the New Tab Page background photo

33 weeks

Apr 7, 2020

Add an option to hide the Bing search bar on the new tab page (Learn more)

32 weeks

Mar 31, 2020

Allow the search bar in the new tab page to be configured with other search providers (Learn more)

32 weeks

Mar 31, 2020

Provide an option to set a custom URL for a new tab instead of showing the new tab page (Learn more)

32 weeks

Mar 31, 2020

Enable sync of installed browser extensions between devices

19 weeks

Mar 19. 2020

Some users are unable to access any web page

3 weeks

Mar 11, 2020

Favorites sync issues, including sync not working, deleted favorites reappearing, and favorites being duplicated

13 weeks

Mar 4, 2020

Provide an option to add a share button to the tool bar

17 weeks

Feb 26, 2020

Need for better handling of links when there is more than one profile

26 weeks

Feb 21, 2020

Touchpad two-finger scrolling is sometimes triggering a right click instead

24 weeks

Feb 21, 2020

Add the ability to change the location for news content on the new tab page

20 weeks

Jan 22, 2020

Provide the ability to change the title of tiles on the new tab page

22 weeks

Jan 22, 2020

Enable search in the extensions store

17 weeks

Dec 19, 2019

The taskbar icon is not updating to the new Microsoft Edge logo

1 week

Nov 14, 2019

A round of improvements to scrolling experience, with more (including performance) to come down the line

12 weeks

Nov 14, 2019

YouTube.com does not render properly and appears extremely magnified

1 week

Nov 4, 2019

Bring the OneNote Web Clipper to the Microsoft Edge extensions store

4 weeks

Nov 4, 2019

Improve discoverability of the home button since some users are asking for it. (View the discussion)

8 weeks

October 29, 2019

Microsoft Edge is crashing whenever a new tab is opened from a link

1 week

October 22, 2019

Inking for PDF files

9 weeks

October 22, 2019

Provide an option to remove the send feedback “smiley” button from the toolbar

1 week

October 15, 2019

Show the New Tab Page in dark theme when the browser is in dark theme

6 weeks

October 1, 2019

Add the ability to turn off the news feed on the new tab page

6 weeks

October 1, 2019

ClickOnce deployment of Windows applications from web pages

6 weeks

October 1, 2019

Website elements are being flipped upside down when switching between tabs

1 week

September 17, 2019

Sign-in profile picture is not always kept up to date

4 weeks

September 17, 2019

“Administrator Mode Detected” error message when opening the browser

2 weeks

September 4, 2019

Add a favorites button to the toolbar, for quicker access to favorites

1 week

August 29, 2019

Make it easier to share web content with other users and apps

1 week

August 29, 2019

Drop down menus in some web pages are not working

1 week

August 29, 2019

Add a dark theme to Microsoft Edge

Addressed before these posts started

 

Build translation capabilities into the browser

Addressed before these posts started

 

Delete browsing history on exit

Addressed before these posts started

 

Show favorites bar only on the new tab page

Addressed before these posts started

 

Bring back reading view

Addressed before these posts started

 

Sync data with my work or school account

Addressed before these posts started

 

 

 

13 Replies
So good to see you back Missy! Hope you are doing well :)

@MissyQ Thank you for removing the "news alerts" for people who have selected "content off" for their new tabs page.  This is an improvement from the very distracting and unwanted experience introduced a few weeks ago when the news alerts were introduced.

 

I see that in this patch that the speed of the new tabs page was improved.  It does seem to be slightly better, but it's still not as fast as the ultimate, most-secure, best-internationalized, least-distracting, and most eco-friendly new-tab page: `about:blank`.  Please allow us to use `about:blank` as our new tab page and save the Earth and some of your users' sanity.  Thank you!

@MissyQ 

Edge Legacy could show a persistent preview of all tabs in addition to showing the previews when hovering over the tabs, so I don't consider "Bring the tab preview feature from Microsoft Edge legacy" as addressed. Are there plans to bring the persistent previews back as well? It's needed when looking through many open tabs and when using touch. Windows needs a browser which works well with touch, and Chromium Edge definitely does not.

tab previews are not done I would like to see pinned state of tab previews like in the legacy edge and also live tab previews for animated sites, youtube videos, and the liking Please.

@MissyQ 

Did we completely miss this????

 

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@MissyQ 

All is well, and thanks for the hard work. Only in the list of this week there is in one box still planned for July. I know, I am pedantic, :) sorry.

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@Stefan Blank Ha, yes, that was intended. I did not have an update at the time of posting, so it was left as-is. I have an update ready for that next week. :)

 

Missy Quarry (she/they)
Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
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REMOVE THE **bleep**ING WHITE LOADING BACKGROUND WHEN USING DARK MODE FOR **bleep** SAKE !
I just made a surgery to my eyes a couple of weeks ago and I use DARK **bleep**ING MODE for everything I have because anything bright hurts MY **bleep**ING EYES before and after the surgery... But after the surgery THE **bleep**ING WHITE LOADING BACKGROUND when I open every SINGLE **bleep**ING web page is **bleep**ING HURTING MY EYES even way more before the **bleep**ING surgery !!!!! Get some **bleep**ING HELP from Firefox or Vivaldi if you don't know how to fix a very **bleep**ING simple issue like this!!! DO YOUR **bleep**ING JOB RIGHT AND REMOVE ANY **bleep**ING WHITE SHIT WHEN WE USE DARK MODE+ FORCE DARK MODE FLAG....
WE ARE NOT USING IT BECAUSE IT'S **bleep**ING COOL, WE ARE USING IT FOR OUR **bleep**ING EYES FOR **bleep** SAKE!!!! DO **bleep**ING SOMETHING!! I'M REPORTING THIS **bleep**ING ISSUE FOR **bleep**ING MORE THAN 2 YEARS NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Any **bleep**ING progress on this yet ????
This is a public space. Please show some empathy.
I don't give a shit just like they don't give a shit about our eyes and our feedback.

This is a site for feedback on new features, generally for testing in Canary or Dev channels. When you post something like this, it's not really possible to take gibberish like that seriously, meaning it's not actionable nor helpful and therefore probably doesn't get you what you're after either.

For what it's worth, if I remove the nonsense from your post to get to what I think you're suggesting, it's a valid feature request: If Edge is running in Dark Mode, then when loading a new tab, use a dark background instead of a white background. Is that your request?

If you have a specific feature change request like that, press Alt-Shift-I (or go to Settings menu -> Help and Feedback -> Send Feedback) and provide the relevant information there so that a ticket can be created. Stick to the specific request and write it as if someone is going to have to document the steps -- meaning make it easy for them as possible with as much detail on the problem and proposed solution as you can, while also being as brief as possible so as not to waste anyone's time. All the rest just dilutes your point and makes most people ignore it.

What do you think I was doing for the past 2 years? :)
I was sending this issue with several other issues in the feedback and in here, and no one gave a shit or replied a positive reply about any of them.
So I'll just copy and paste this message above in every new post and will send it in the feedback everyday until it's fixed or until I got a useful reply.
Or maybe until I get blind and I can't see anything anymore :)