Hello Insiders, it’s a historic day today! First, we’re releasing build 100.0.1156.1 to the Dev channel, which as you can see, is the first build of version 100! Second, we’re excited to announce that the long-awaited capability to sign into the browser with a work or school account on Linux is now enabled by default! This functionality will be available in Beta and Stable once version 100 hits those channels, as usual.
Community-wise, we’d like to hear from you! Please consider taking our regularly-scheduled survey here to tell us how we’re doing in our engagement with you and how we can do better: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2187016.
We’ve also got an overview of the work we’ve been doing in our extensions download website to improve extension discoverability: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/microsoft-edge-add-ons-new-features-to-improve-exten.... As well as some new functionality in Dev Tools that lets you un-minify your code for easier debugging: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2022/02/03/unminifying-function-names-in-devtools-performance-pr....
As for everything else that’s new and exciting in the browser:
Added features:
- Added info to the Performance Hub about how much savings Sleeping Tabs are providing.
- Enabled by default the Rewards hub.
Improved reliability:
- Fixed a crash when searching for words in a PDF.
- Fixed a crash when signing into the browser.
- Fixed a crash when using Guest mode windows.
- Fixed a crash when sending feedback.
- Fixed an issue where the Rewards Hub crashes.
- Fixed a crash on Mac when using Read Aloud.
- Fixed a hang when viewing tooltips or other popups that appear when hovering over IE mode tabs.
Changed behavior:
- Changed the JavaScript Share API to call the new Share flyout when available.
- Changed Startup Boost to be enablable even when conflicting extensions are present.
- Fixed an issue where Find on Page sometimes gets stuck and can’t advance to the next match when iterating through all the matches.
- Fixed an issue where clicking a misspelled word sometimes doesn’t bring up the spellcheck suggestions card to fix it.
- Fixed an issue where the setting to Open System Preferences For Captions doesn’t work.
- Fixed an issue with WebView2 apps where the IsMuted attribute can’t be set if media isn’t playing (Issue 2120).
Known issues:
- Users of certain ad blocking extensions may experience playback errors on YouTube. As a workaround, temporarily disabling the extension should allow playback to proceed. See this help article for more details.
- Some users are still running into an issue where all tabs and extensions immediately crash with a STATUS_INVALID_IMAGE_HASH error. The most common cause of this error is outdated security or antivirus software from vendors like Symantec, and in those cases, updating that software will fix it.
- Users of the Kaspersky Internet Suite who have the associated extension installed may sometimes see webpages like Gmail fail to load. This failure is due to the main Kaspersky software being out of date, and is thus fixed by making sure the latest version is installed.
- Some users are seeing “wobbling” behavior when scrolling using trackpad gestures or touchscreens, where scrolling in one dimension also causes the page to subtly scroll back and forth in the other. Note that this only affects certain websites and seems to be worse on certain devices. This is most likely related to our ongoing work to bring scrolling back to parity with Edge Legacy’s behavior, so if this behavior is undesirable, you can temporarily turn it off by disabling the edge://flags/#edge-experimental-scrolling flag.
Since 100 is now in Dev, you should also see 99 in Beta shortly!
