Oct 01 2019 11:27 AM
Hello insiders, today we’re releasing build 79.0.287.2 to the Dev Channel! There’s a lot in here, but we’re most excited to announce two long-awaited features: media autoplay blocking, and a more customizable new tab page!
You can find the media autoplay blocking setting under edge://settings/content/mediaAutoplay. While you’re in Settings, you may also want to check out some additions to Tracking Prevention. We now offer a list of all the trackers we’ve ever blocked, as well as a page of exceptions that will allow you to better customize your Tracking Prevention behavior.
On the new tab page, there are four big new features, some of which you’ve been asking for. First, the new tab page now supports dark theme. Next, you can scroll through previous Bing images of the day using the arrows at the bottom left of the page. While you’re scrolling, if you scroll down to the news feed, you’ll see that we added more personalization options. And finally, if you don’t want to see the news feed at all, now you don’t have to, because we added the option to turn it completely off!
In addition to those features, some of the other major changes that are worth mentioning include:
New features:
Improved reliability:
Changed behavior:
We expect to have one or two minor additions to this Dev build later this week which will increase the final part of the version number, but there shouldn’t be any new features added in those updates. And until next week, thank you all for using Edge and for sending us all your feedback and suggestions!
Oct 01 2019 09:08 PM
@XRaiderv18
Mine are unchanged. Have always stayed how I arrange them. Good to know if things are universal, wide-spread or rare.
Cheers,
Drew
Oct 01 2019 09:10 PM
@TanvirArjel
Where is it?
Cheers,
Drew
Oct 01 2019 09:12 PM
@Drew1903 on my favorites toolbar, I have my gmail, fios login, first energy outage favorites..I tried to move my google fi login favorite next to my gmail, closed the browser, relaunched the next day and boom..its gone, and youtube music is RIGHT back where it shouldnt be.
Oct 01 2019 09:15 PM
@ikjadoon
Speaking of ads or not... suggest setting Tracking Prevention to Strict. You may at its effect... with or without ads Blocked or an ad blocker extension.
Cheers,
Drew
Oct 01 2019 09:23 PM - edited Oct 03 2019 10:44 PM
@leopeva64-2_
I have mentioned this previously, but, before some may have seen it...
Depending on what OS Accent colour is used/selected this can become a non-issue. One can have oodles of contrast. IF one has grey on grey, yes, it will be challenging. Try some other OS accent colours AND tell them to apply to Title bar & window frames.
1st hand experience, it does the trick, nicely.
Here's an example
Cheers,
Drew
Oct 01 2019 09:26 PM
@smartgreenrobot
Figure on, probably, Spring 2020.
Cheers,
Drew
Oct 01 2019 09:32 PM
@XRaiderv18
Ok, well, even though I don't have the same behavior... What happens if you arrange how you want in Manage Favorites, close & re-open? OR even in the list. Is there any difference if you do it elsewhere than the Favs Bar itself?
Cheers,
Drew
Oct 01 2019 09:39 PM
@josh_bodner
Next, you can scroll through previous Bing images of the day using the arrows at the bottom left of the page.
And finally, if you don’t want to see the news feed at all, now you don’t have to, because we added the option to turn it completely off!
Josh, I don't seem to have either of these ⬆ My NTP does not seem any different than ever including controls. Is it another Controlled Feature Roll-out?
Cheers,
Drew
Oct 01 2019 10:07 PM - edited Oct 01 2019 10:08 PM
@Drew1903 It's a bit hard to explain, but ever since the previous build the scrolling with my mouse wheel feels like the original Edge and not like any other chromium based browser. You feel each click of the mouse wheel rather than the super smooth feeling.
Oct 01 2019 10:28 PM
Oct 01 2019 10:32 PM
@tgienger Try disabling "Enable Experimental Scrolling" in edge://flags
Oct 01 2019 10:43 PM - edited Oct 01 2019 11:41 PM
Thanks,
looks like it only works when the link is pasted in the address bar or transferred from another app (like clicking on a YouTube video link from an email and opening it in the Edge insider canary) Yes it does work on Youtube! the video is not started (but preloaded) and there is a play button on the video ready for the user to click on. however if you navigate and click on another video from there then the autoplay won't work and video plays automatically. I think this area needs a bit of fixing.
Oct 01 2019 10:45 PM
@ikjadoon wrote:
Is Microsoft going to incorporate a stronger ad blocker in upcoming builds? If not, then this is an unusually titled item "Ads - block / allow" under Site Permissions.
When this is enabled, a tiny fraction of ads are blocked for normal users. This Setting toggle has gotta be renamed to "Intrusive ads" (and someone at MS should define "intrusive" so users know what this setting actually does), if more ad blocking isn't coming.
Just my two cents.
You're right, that option seems not to be doing much, but in the privacy settings when I set tracking prevention to strict it blocks half of the ads. though not ads like those on YouTube videos that need more sophisticated ways like ublock origin extension.
Oct 01 2019 10:47 PM
@TanvirArjel wrote:
Great update! Finally most awaited `turn off news feed completely` arrived! Thank you. Microsoft Edge Team.
This still appears to be part of the A/B testing for the Dev..different users reported they don't have this option
Oct 01 2019 10:49 PM
@tgienger wrote:@josh_bodner Mouse wheel scrolling, at least in Windows 10, is still broken from the previous build. I would like to know if this is planned to stay this way so I can move on and use a different browser. Thanks.
Hi,
have you tried enabling this flag? it makes a lot better like the classic Edge.
I don't know what other browser can do it better specially when Microsoft helped Google fix their scrolling in Chromium source.
Oct 01 2019 10:51 PM
@tgienger
Ah, Smooth scrolling... it's "Coming soon". BUT, in the meantime > edge://flags & type smooth scrolling in the search box
I have it since forever...why I (forgot) and didn't notice anything 'bad'.
Cheers,
Drew
Oct 01 2019 10:52 PM
@XRaiderv18 wrote:still seeing an issue where favorites in the favorites bar that have been moved, are back where they were moved from.
I'm having this problem too!
for the same reason I'm afraid to setup Edge insider sync between 2 computers, data might be overwritten or corrupted.
Oct 01 2019 10:53 PM
@Drew1903 wrote:@XRaiderv18
Mine are unchanged. Have always stayed how I arrange them. Good to know if things are universal, wide-spread or rare.
with A/B testing going on, people tend to have problems that others don't, so it's normal and this fact doesn't make Any problem rare or unimportant.
Oct 01 2019 10:55 PM
@Deleted
The person needs to Enable the Smooth scrolling flag.
Cheers,
Drew
Oct 01 2019 10:57 PM
@Drew1903 wrote:
Ok, well, even though I don't have the same behavior... What happens if you arrange how you want in Manage Favorites, close & re-open? OR even in the list. Is there any difference if you do it elsewhere than the Favs Bar itself?
Nah no difference, no matter from where you rearrange the bookmark, in the end it ends up going to the end of the bookmarks list where it was first added to automatically.
the user needs to rearrange the bookmark 3-4 times until the change gets registered in the sync engine.