Apr 08 2019 07:50 AM
Greetings Microsoft Edge Insiders!
Let us start off by saying, welcome to the Microsoft Edge Insider community! We’re so excited to have you here, and we can’t wait to start learning from you. If you haven’t read our Welcome to the Microsoft Edge Insider community article yet, we recommend starting there. It has a bunch of great information on how we got here and where we’re heading.
Our mission:
Our mission is to create a thriving community of valuable Insiders, like you, so we can closely listen and learn how Microsoft Edge can be better. We believe that having open, honest, and continued conversations with our Insider community is a great way to build a close relationship with our users.
Why do all of this? Because we want to build a browser that’s deeply grounded in your needs. Your voice is the most important piece of helping us build a better Microsoft Edge. The feedback you provide leads to meaningful conversations that may ultimately produce the new features, bug fixes, and other improvements that matter the most to you. Listening is just the beginning for us. Our true goal is to build Microsoft Edge with the voice of the Insider community as our guiding light.
Community voice
When we announced the next version of Microsoft Edge back in December, we asked a simple question: If you could change one thing about the web, what would it be?
We were completely humbled by the over 40k comments you’ve shared with us. That’s a whole lot of ideas. Thank you!
You tell us that you love some things about the current Microsoft Edge browser, like the smooth scrolling experience, our Fluent Design and the precision touchpad, and you hope we’ll bring those things forward into the next version too.
Some of you are frustrated with the way that sites render so differently depending on the browser you're using to view them. You also tell us that Web Standards are on the top of your mind. We hear that you want all browsers to adopt the same standards. We hear from some of you web developers that you want new capabilities added to the web platform; whether that be in CSS, HTML or JavaScript. Another top request is an improved dev tools experience.
We hear that you have strong feelings about online advertising. Some of you wish ads that pop-up would just disappear and the same for auto-playing ads. While others feel a strong desire to remove or fundamentally change how online advertising works on the web. There is concern how these advertisements enable sites to track you as you browse which feels "creepy" and "invasive."
The overwhelming majority of comments (we’re talking thousands of messages) that we have read wish for a change in the fundamental attributes of the web. Make it faster, safer, more reliable and more private. You want your browsers to have smaller memory footprints, lower battery consumption, higher rendering speed and better stability. We agree with you wholeheartedly! The attributes that you say matter most in your browsing experience are performance, privacy, and reliability. So that is where we are starting.
We are focusing on delivering outstanding fundamentals. Speed, stability, accessibility, compatibility, security, and privacy are always top of mind for us. We are using your comments and suggestions to guide us while we are getting the new Microsoft Edge ready for its debut.
What’s next?
In the meantime, jump in, download the Microsoft Edge Insider Channels, and let us know what you think. What’s working well? Where do we need to improve? Over time, we hope to build healthy engagement and feedback loops with our community members.
We’re also mindful that our users have preferred ways to engage with us. Whether you view the latest information on the Microsoft Edge Insider website, enjoy direct discussions on our forum, need a personal support assistant via help (F1), share your feedback and suggestions via the smiley face, or just want to give us a shout on Twitter, we’re always listening and looking for ways to reach out wherever our users feel most comfortable and prefer to talk to us. We’re all ears!
Thank you for being here. We look forward to listening and engaging with you.
-The Microsoft Edge Team-
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Nov 17 2019 04:52 PM
I heard you guys were going to EOL the windows snipping tool!
Don't do it!
It's priceless!!!
Tell the powers that be!
Thanks
Nov 17 2019 05:13 PM
@Jerry_JRData
Jerry, The idea is that Snip & Sketch replaces Snipping Tool and that's an OS thing.. But, what people are discussing here in the Edge forum, regarding the browser, is Add notes being kept in (new) Edge same as it is in Edge, now.
Cheers,
Drew
Nov 18 2019 12:04 AM
@erikvp wrote:
Honestly said I still have no idea why the network became so unstable after the update. In the end, I ended rolling back to the version before it. Even after the network was running I got only at the most 3mbs. should be about 50-70mbs. Microsoft did fix it. in the version that came out after that. I did check the wi-fi connection on my phone and it had 70mbs at the same time holding it beside the antennas of my computer wi-fi card.
It may have to do that my wi-fi card is a bit older. But it supports all the protocols. So, it should not be a problem.
Yeah there are lots of variables that could have effect on your WI-FI connectivity, you could find out the main cause of the problem though but it's too late now cause it's fixed, maybe next time that it happens, hopefully never :)
Nov 18 2019 12:07 AM
@Jerry_JRData wrote:I heard you guys were going to EOL the windows snipping tool!
Don't do it!
It's priceless!!!
Tell the powers that be!
Thanks
Snipping tool is really old, i wouldn't mind losing it.
Snip & Sketch is better which is a built in app and has all the features of snipping tools plus more.
Nov 18 2019 01:39 AM
Horizontal scrolling in the address bar is very useful in the old Edge.
Any chance it's coming to the chromium Edge?
Nov 18 2019 07:05 AM
Nov 24 2019 04:09 AM
Two Feature Requests
The Built in Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 Emulation Rendering Mode right inside Microsoft Edge Canary is broken.
As of about October 31st 2019 this feature is broken.
This website
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2700601/how-to-fix-errors-found-in-the-checksur-log
for example if you scroll down to the bottom of the page where the long take ownership dos command is, This is displayed incorrectly now in Microsoft Edge Canary , whereas it used to be displayed properly in Microsoft Edge Canary.
you will notice that the long take ownership dos command is displayed in a text box with a side scrolling horizontal bar on the bottom of it. This is not how this web page is supposed to be displayed
the text in the long dos take ownership command line It is supposed to be displayed without a box and a scrollbar around it, and also it is supposed to be
displayed with word wrap on, and the text is supposed to go vertically down the web page instead of horizontally across the page.
Microsoft Edge Canary used to display this type of a web page correctly, which is without the scroll box and horizontal side scrolling bar at the bottom around the long dos text commands.
Displaying this type of web page correctly is important because, for example, if you try to print this web page (or others like it with long dos commands) when it is displayed wrong, the long dos take ownership command is cut off and you can't see it all, making it useless when printed.
So please fix this Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 Built-In Rendering Engine feature, built right into Microsoft Edge Canary, again so it works. Also make this a permanent feature for the new Edge browser please
Also another feature that would be great in Microsoft Edge Canary and also as a permanent feature for the new Microsoft Edge Browser , is to have the Shrink To Fit option when trying to print a web page, and also when saving a web page to a .PDF file.
No other browsers out there have these two very useful features, so please add them
Thank You for your consideration of these features
Nov 24 2019 09:16 AM
I do agree that displaying the dos command in such a way that you see it all without scrolling is better. It makes reading an example code much easier. It can be frustrating to follow code when horizontally scrolling. Also, for printing, it is really good.
Through the shrink to fit is part of the windows printing dialog. So, I had to check it and indeed it is not in the C Edge printing interface and should be added.
Nov 24 2019 09:33 AM - edited Nov 24 2019 09:39 AM
PDF files are scalable, when saving pages as PDF, you can set the scale option in the print pop up window.
when viewing it on any devices, depending on the PDF reader that you use, you can use the fit to page or fit to width option when viewing your PDF.
there are paper sizes when printing for PDF, the shrink to fit wouldn't make sense, it's not a desktop background.
Also, there are websites that have custom layout, like for example a 3 column layout, the main content is in the middle and the rest like ads, site notes etc are on the sides. so how can print feature magically know which parts not to print and which parts to print and shrink.
the best option is to first turn that webpage into a proper format using Immersive reader mode and then print it from there.
Nov 24 2019 09:35 AM
@GrahamJockey wrote:Horizontal scrolling in the address bar is very useful in the old Edge.
Any chance it's coming to the chromium Edge?
scrolling between browser tabs with mouse wheel?
Google chrome canary has this flag called
Scrollable TabStrip
Allows users to access tabs by scrolling when they no longer fit in the tabstrip. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#scrollable-tabstrip
Microsoft could add it to the Edge
Nov 24 2019 11:11 AM
@Brady2495
Brady, possibly you've not noticed all that's in the print controls with Edge C. It can save to PDF & it shrinks to fit, although, here it is called scaling. There's a bunch of choices in the top box with its scroll arrow. The red arrow at Less settings did say More settings. Hit that to see Scaling. It goes by 5s from 100% to zero.
Cheers,
Drew
Nov 24 2019 11:14 AM
@erikvp
Erik, please, see my note to Brady in this thread. Shrink to fit does, already, exist.
Cheers,
Drew