Dec 17 2019 10:49 AM
Hello insiders, today we’re releasing build 80.0.361.5 to the Dev channel! This is the final build for major version 80, which means it’s also our next Beta channel candidate. This is also the final Dev channel update for the year; we don’t expect to publish anything more until January. However, we couldn’t leave you without some holiday treats, so here are all of the feature rollouts that have been recently completed for the Canary and Dev channels.
First, we’ve officially opened up the new Edge Extension Store for submissions! You can read more about the process for submitting to the store in this blog post: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/12/16/get-started-extensions-addons-microsoft-edge-chromium.
Next, for the web developers, we’ve published an example application on our GitHub page that serves as a comprehensive API demonstration of our new WebView2 control. You can read more about how to use it in this blog post: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/12/11/webview2-interactive-api-sample.
For our ARM enthusiasts, we’re bringing our native ARM64 builds to the Dev channel today! These builds have been in Canary for the last few weeks, and we’ve ironed out most of the major issues during that time. There’s still one known issue though: certain DRM video on some websites doesn’t play properly.
If you didn’t see it last week, we made a short post here about some of our work on the Mac touch bar: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Articles/Try-the-revamped-Touch-Bar-experience-on-Microsoft-E....
Finally, we’ve got three features to look for in upcoming builds.
Before we get on with the rest of the features and additions that are worth mentioning this week, you should know that favorites sync is still disabled for the majority of users. This includes brand new machines you install Edge on, so if you’re setting up Edge for the first time and want access to your favorites, you’ll need to manually export your favorites to a file on a different machine and import them on the new one. We’re also working on a deduplication mechanism once favorites sync is re-enabled, which should prevent new duplicates from coming in as well as remove duplicates for users who have already had their favorites duplicated.
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Thank you for a great 2019 and for all of your help building both this community and the new Edge. We couldn’t have done it without you!
Dec 23 2019 10:01 AM
@josh_bodner I notice that high GPU usage occurs when the download bar is on in Dev 80.0.361.9. I need to close the download bar and then the GPU usage is back to normal.
Dec 28 2019 10:11 AM - edited Dec 28 2019 10:13 AM
I've sent 3-4 Smiley reports about this bug, but thought I'd post it here, too, in case anyone else has experienced this.
A very unusual bug where page contents, after being rendered, aren't cached. So if you scroll too fast, the entire page is re-drawn as you scroll (!). Especially noticeable on longer pages. Have not seen this before, until this most recent build.
To a normal user, it just looks/feels like an ancient 1990s browser that can't keep up with modern websites. It's often fixable with a restart, but that gets old.
See a short video here: https://streamable.com/iritz
System:
i5-8600K (monitor above is powered by the UHD 630 iGPU; driver 26.20.100.7584)
32 GB DDR4-3200
Samsung 960 EVO 250 GB
1920 x 1080 @ 60Hz
Windows 10 Pro x64 1909 (18363.535)
What I've tried:
I believe this latest build has been the only build I've experienced it.
Jan 02 2020 02:06 PM
- Edge Canary 81.0.369.0 - https dont't work, my problem exists
@welzewool now that I'm back from the holidays and we've had a few more Canaries put out since then, are you still having problems with this? The fact that it worked for you in Chrome Canary when you checked makes me expect that this should be fixed in our Canary now as well, but let me know if that's not the case.
Jan 02 2020 02:07 PM
I notice that high GPU usage occurs when the download bar is on in Dev 80.0.361.9. I need to close the download bar and then the GPU usage is back to normal.
@sdmmr does this affect Canary as well, or just Dev? I can't get this behavior to occur in any channel on my own machines, so I suspect it may be something a little more specific to your setup.
Jan 02 2020 02:11 PM
So if you scroll too fast, the entire page is re-drawn as you scroll (!).
@ikjadoon Scrolling is one of the areas that we know Chromium was less smooth compared to Edge Legacy, and while we've started making investments in this area, there's still a lot of work we want to do. I'd be very curious if you can get the same thing to happen in Chrome, since it's very likely we're inheriting this from them.
Jan 03 2020 03:27 AM
@SOI_7 @josh_bodner @HotCakeX Isn't this discussion about whether folders should be yellow, outlined, or customisable shades a wider question about the overall look and feel of Microsoft products as a whole? Is Windows 10 Fluent Design the go-to standard, are there different standards across other products such as Microsoft Office and Azure? Or is Chromium Edge something different?
Generally speaking Xbox is Green and Windows 10 is blue - but for Chromium Edge to work across all platforms, what should it look like? It's awesome logo is green and blue - what should the folders look like?
There was a lot of work done recently between versions 1903 and 1909 of Windows 10 to change the File Explorer folder icon's shade of yellow so that it was visible on dark or light themes. This attention to detail should be given to the folders in Chromium Edge too, but I do hope custom options will be available too, and the application of a group policy is a great idea too.
Perhaps a business would like to folders to match their branding, or there may be some LGBTQI people would like rainbow folders if that's even possible?
Posted via Edge Dev Version 80.0.361.9 (Official build) Dev (64-bit) on MacBook
Jan 03 2020 04:50 AM
Jan 03 2020 05:42 AM
The biggest problem with Fluent Design on the current day - it isn't something determined at least for the public. The first apps on win10 had acrylic transparency, strict angles for fields and buttons, and bevel highlighting, current "Fluent Design" doesn't have them at all and apps after recent updates lost these distinctive features. So we can't speak about any consistency especially with archaic win 8 file explorer as an example of future proof planning which got on win10 only not so good dark theme and updated search.
Other problem, yellow folders aren't something that community frequently ask. We asked for Acryl, for good dark theme which doesn't flash with white when form still loading content end etc. So looks like this was someone internal desition, we didn't see any poll confirms this. Obviously Edgium was designed as monochromic, and IMHO a good manner to change something without conferring is to give the user a choice. Yellow as default, monochrome as optional it isn't something special or harmful for the product. Everyone knows that more than 80% of users always use the default setting anyway.
Jan 03 2020 06:33 AM
@Henry08 Sorry, that's completely false. As someone who has requested getting rid of the horrible gray folder icons since the very beginning (and restoration of proper consistent yellow color folders) I have seen hundreds of similar comments from my meager forum and web browsing on the topic. Just because you personally don't like the consistent yellow color doesn't mean that you represent the majority opinion.
Jan 03 2020 12:23 PM
Jan 03 2020 01:50 PM
Isn't this discussion about whether folders should be yellow, outlined, or customisable shades a wider question about the overall look and feel of Microsoft products as a whole? Is Windows 10 Fluent Design the go-to standard, are there different standards across other products such as Microsoft Office and Azure? Or is Chromium Edge something different?
@Graham-STMC I think part of the problem is that what constitutes "Fluent" continues to change (perhaps "evolve" would be a more gracious way of putting it). For example, the Acrylic transparency that was such a hit with some of Edge Legacy's users was a specific implementation of a broader idea, not the exact specification to be followed pixel-for-pixel by successors: https://medium.com/microsoft-design/evolving-the-microsoft-fluent-design-system-9b37fb890c82. I feel like the implication here is that we should be trying to integrate all of Microsoft's products to be more cohesive-feeling, and it's a sentiment that I absolutely agree with.
Jan 03 2020 02:12 PM
@josh_bodner So many comment that the Android ecosystem is so fragmented, personally I think Microsoft has a great opportunity, perhaps starting with Edge, to provide something special that makes its products and services stand out or even shine, with one standard. There are many great design elements in all of them from Office through Skype and here with Edge. I realise there is perhaps a history of different departments fighting but perhaps under the current leadership, and the great innovations such as the forums for Insiders, a focus should be possible.
To me the transparent tiles of Windows Phone 8.1 were amazing - but the overall look was spoilt by the odd brand that needed a specific look. Perhaps it is an impossible task in today's need for recognition but there should be some commonality.
Jan 03 2020 03:53 PM
@HotCakeX To each their own. I would NEVER use Firefox as an example of excellent UI design.
Jan 03 2020 09:59 PM
@josh_bodner I do not have Canary so I don't know. I tried in Beta and it does not occur.
I tried Guest Profile and a new Profile in Dev and the issue still occurs.
I sent a Smiley Feedback with attachments and diagnostics and hope that it can help you.
Another issue is saving a webpage as a "Single File" will save as ".html" instead of ".mhtml" when using provided filename without any changing.
Jan 03 2020 10:08 PM
Jan 04 2020 01:23 AM - edited Jan 04 2020 03:10 AM
@josh_bodner
I think the bug with bookmarks sync is back. I cannot remove any bookmarks because they are shortly restored. It's pretty annoying to tell the the truth.
Jan 04 2020 02:09 AM
Jan 04 2020 02:10 AM
Jan 04 2020 02:14 AM
@sdmmr wrote:Another issue is saving a webpage as a "Single File" will save as ".html" instead of ".mhtml" when using provided filename without any changing.
Working correctly on Version 81.0.381.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit)
tried both with and without changing the default name