Jan 08 2020 10:39 AM
Welcome to the new year! Today we’re releasing build 81.0.381.0 to the Dev Channel, which as you can see is the first new build from major version 81. We haven’t been completely asleep during the holidays though; we’ve been slowing turning favorites sync back on for most Canary and Dev users, with the last of them coming back online a couple of days ago. As sync is re-enabled, some machines may experience duplication-like behavior as the machines get back into a clean state, but that behavior shouldn’t persist, and any changes you make to your favorites should now sync properly (but please let us know if that’s not the case!)
We also have a couple of informational updates. First, we’ve proposed our security baseline configuration for when organizations install the Stable channel of Edge: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/12/18/security-baseline-draft-edge-79/. There’s an accompanying discussion over on the Security Baselines forum. Second, we started a discussion around the value proposition of Reading List and how users would like to see us evolve it moving forward: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/reading-list-discussion/m-p/1070553. As for the most noteworthy product changes:
Added features:
Improved reliability:
Changed behavior:
Known issues:
We’re looking forward to the release of the Stable channel soon, and thank you for all the help you’ve given us in getting to that point!
Jan 09 2020 09:47 AM
@HotCakeX i've tried to change the DEP and it still didnt help.
Jan 09 2020 10:34 AM
@josh_bodner ¡Muchas gracias por continuar con Edge! Sin embargo he comentado a través de Twitter y por mensaje que el trackpad de mi HP no funciona para desplazarme en las páginas (arriba y abajo) algo que no ocurre en el Edge normal o incluso en Chrome. Adicionalmente, me gustaría comentar que se deben agregar las características de "Notas web" que se tenían en Edge, es un distintivo y gran herramienta.
Jan 09 2020 10:40 AM
@C-los I too am experiencing this STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION error. When you roll back, are settings retained including collections?
Jan 09 2020 11:08 AM - edited Jan 09 2020 11:08 AM
@Steven Sanders I am also getting Error code: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
This is on dev and canary. Beta works ok. My Edge Dev was working fine last night until 10:30 EST.
Also tried reinstalling dev, but no dice 😞
Jan 09 2020 11:19 AM
@Steven Sanders I wasnt able to rollback
Jan 09 2020 11:38 AM
@David Hurst wrote:@HotCakeX I tried turning off DEP following the instructions in the links you provided. It did not fix the issues I am seeing. Thanks for the response and information,
Yw, well hope we don't have to wait for the next week for this problem to get fixed
Jan 09 2020 12:28 PM - edited Jan 09 2020 12:28 PM
@pbilk
Yes, to be linguistically correct the verb is search, not a brand or (in this case) a search engine name.
You are very right about ads at the top in google. If you are interested, there is, also, Bing Insiders. We meet monthly via Microsoft Teams. I wish the NTP was, actually, Bing; not, just using Bing as its search engine, but, actually, the Bing home page, Bing.com.
Cheers,
Drew
Jan 09 2020 12:53 PM
@ikjadoon
I've been reading through all of this thread. And, again, it strikes me how bugs are not universal. The mention of Imgur caught my attention
My Favs sync in Dev isn't On
YET:
I have no crashing nor have I ever. I use Imgur a lot and no issues there, either.
Many, even most, of the issues & bugs mentioned since April, I haven't had and haven't been able to repro. This includes all the problems stated as coming since going to the last/latest Build.
The capital S is correct.
Cheers,
Drew
Jan 09 2020 01:07 PM
@Drew1903 wrote:Yes, to be linguistically correct the verb is search, not a brand or (in this case) a search engine name.
You are very right about ads at the top in google. If you are interested, there is, also, Bing Insiders. We meet monthly via Microsoft Teams. I wish the NTP was, actually, Bing; not, just using Bing as its search engine, but, actually, the Bing home page, Bing.com.
In my experience, Bing has more ads than Google. it's very misleading I always have to use adblocker. usually the first few search result entries are ads.
Jan 09 2020 01:09 PM
@Drew1903 wrote:I've been reading through all of this thread. And, again, it strikes me how bugs are not universal. The mention of Imgur caught my attention
My Favs sync in Dev isn't On
YET:
I have no crashing nor have I ever. I use Imgur a lot and no issues there, either.
Many, even most, of the issues & bugs mentioned since April, I haven't had and haven't been able to repro. This includes all the problems stated as coming since going to the last/latest Build.
It's normal, experiments are running in the Insider channels of Edge so not everyone has the same bugs/experience.
Jan 09 2020 01:36 PM
Good to see that the ability to change the name of the top site tiles on the NTP has appeared (but not mentioned in the first post, unless I missed it even though it was on the Top Feedback list). Could do with increasing the size of the 'hotspot' for the three-dot menu on each tile a bit - on nearly half of them I actually triggered the loading of the link rather than opening the menu so I could edit the tile name.
Could still do with the ability to add more top site tiles to the NTP. Giving an option for one or two rows like Firefox would be OK, though personally I'd like to be able to set the number of columns and rows within some limits - my personal preference is for two rows of 6 tiles each.
I do now use chromium Edge (usually Canary) instead of Google Chrome for those rare pages that won't function in some important way in Firefox (mostly a few sites where embedded videos don't play in Firefox; rarely where e.g. some drop-down menu won't drop down). But if you want me to use it as my browser for normal browsing there are two vital (for me) things needed, one from you and one from your Android Edge colleagues. (1) As I've said many times before, I need middle-clicking on a favorite in a favorites menu to open the favorite in a new tab but also LEAVE THE FAVORITES MENU OPEN - as in IE, classic Edge, Firefox, and every browser I've chosen to use as my main browser since around 2005 (as I simply won't choose a browser that doesn't do that). If you can't give me that I will never use Edge as anything but my rarely needed Google Chrome replacement for odd pages. And if there is some technical reason why it can't be done, PLEASE say so ... although I'd find it hard to believe as CTRL-clicking a favourite in a favourites menu opens it but leaves the menu open, so it's a supported action you just need to tie to middle-button click as well (or something else that is easy to do one-handed, which CTRL-click isn't - I'm disabled, have my laptop off by my right knee, and sitting up and using two hands is very painful). (2) Your Android Edge colleagues need to give an option to move the control bar to the TOP as I hate and simply won't use phone apps with bottom controls. Android Google Chrome can have the control bar at top (still currently by default) or bottom via a flags setting. Firefox Preview - a complete rewrite of their mobile browser which will replace the current mobile Firefox in due course - appeared with bottom controls only; but I complained in the feedback, and lo and behold the new version that appeared last month has a setting that will switch the control bar to the top as I'd asked. Android Edge is lagging out of step on providing the choice. And the advantages of using the matching brand browser - syncing favourites, passwords, open tabs etc - is such that even if you 'fix' desktop Chromium Edge for me the way I require (Middle button on a favourites menu leaving the menu open) there's no chance of me using W10 chromium Edge as my regular laptop browser if Android Edge remains unusable for me on my phone because there's no option to move the controls to the top.
So currently both W10 chromium Edge and Android Edge have (completely different) absolute deal-breaker issues for me. Doesn't matter what else you guys to them, if there's no middle-button leaving favourites menus open in desktop Edge AND/OR no option for top controls in Android Edge, then I'll be staying with Firefox for laptop and phone.
Jan 10 2020 12:24 AM
Seeing the same issue. Dev (81.0.381.0) and Canary (81.0.387.0) is broken. Beta (79.0.309.60) works.
Jan 10 2020 12:28 AM
After update to this build, I encounter many website with this error:
Jan 10 2020 12:48 AM
@kamfung @josh_bodner
Josh, FYI, if this is a bug it is not hitting all Users. I, for one, am getting no error sites* or seeing any breakage in any Channel... * at least, not on any site I visit or have viewed/opened.
After update to this build, I encounter many website with this error:
Seeing the same issue. Dev (81.0.381.0) and Canary (81.0.387.0) is broken. Beta (79.0.309.60) works.
For me, all 3 work.
Cheers,
Drew
Jan 10 2020 01:16 AM
@Drew1903 I can confirm we have multiple instance of this breaking immediately after the latest release and we are all on 1909.
Jan 10 2020 01:24 AM
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Jan 10 2020 01:51 AM - edited Jan 10 2020 01:58 AM
@samuele2 In the absence of a Safe Mode option, try this:
Go to your Edge profile folder "User Data", rename it to anything else. The path is C:\Users\Your User Name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge Dev. Start Edge Dev. This time it should not crash. Close it again. Rename the profile folder that was created by this successful startup to something else. Rename the original folder with your old profile back to the original name (User Data). Start the browser again. In case this still doesn't work, delete this folder and rename the recently created successful startup folder back to User Data and start Dev. You will have a brand new Edge, but you will have lost any customisations, Sync settings, Extensions, etc. You will have to recreate these.
Let me know if it works