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MicrosoftDev channel update to 81.0.381.0 is live
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:
- Added a feature to suggest URLs to visit that are similar to typed URLs that result in a failed navigation due to the fact that no webpage at the typed URL exists.
- Added a keyboard shortcut for starting Read Aloud (ctrl + shift + U).
- Added the ability to paste multiple items into a Collection at the same time.
- Added a dialog to tell users when a new data type is available to sync.
- Added support for Guided Switch to suggest going back to a personal profile when visiting links to certain non-work or school resources in a work or school profile.
- Added support for the Chromium management policy to disable web payment APIs in webpages.
- Added a management policy for disabling Microsoft Search for Business.
Improved reliability:
- Fixed a crash when syncing favorites.
- Fixed an issue where favorites that are synced between multiple machines sometimes get deleted from one machine when they’re edited on another.
- Fixed a crash when syncing Collections.
- Fixed a crash when sync is enabled.
- Fixed a crash when syncing with Edge mobile.
- Fixed a crash when clearing browsing data.
- Fixed an issue where Collections don’t sync properly.
- Fixed a crash when importing certain data from other browsers.
- Fixed an issue where Edge fails to install due to a crash in the installer.
- Fixed an issue where uninstalling Edge and re-installing the same channel with a lower version number causes Edge to no longer launch.
- Fixed an issue where enabling Tracking Prevention prevents some pages from ever loading, regardless of the level Tracking Prevention is set at.
- Fixed an issue where certain videos don’t load when Tracking Prevention is enabled.
- Fixed an issue where Tracking Prevention prevented users from logging into certain websites.
- Fixed an issue where navigation in new tabs sometimes fails, either showing an error that the connection is closed or crashing the tab, but subsequent navigations are sometimes okay.
- Fixed an issue where typing in the address bar sometimes causes a crash.
- Fixed an issue where Edge is no longer able to launch after uninstalling and reinstalling it.
- Fixed a crash for users who have certain anti-virus programs installed.
- Fixed an issue where Amazon Music fails to play.
- Fixed an issue where sharing a local file (for example, a PDF that’s been downloaded onto the machine) fails.
- Fixed a crash during shutdown.
- Fixed an issue where the policy to enable/disable printing headers and footers doesn’t work.
- Improved the reliability of installation.
Changed behavior:
- Fixed an issue where downloading files in IE mode tabs sometimes prevents the browser from being closed even after the downloads are completed.
- Fixed an issue where the user can’t remove pages from the list of pages to open when the browser first starts.
- Fixed an issue where removing a search provider in Settings sometimes results in the inability to add that same search provider again.
- Fixed an issue where the second page of the print preview dialog doesn’t render properly.
- Fixed an issue where unselecting categories to be synced during the First Run Experience sometimes results in those data types still being synced.
- Fixed an issue where the Office New Tab Page is broken.
- Fixed an issue where creating a new Collection sometimes fails.
- Fixed an issue where some images can’t be dragged and dropped into a Collection.
- Fixed an issue where using Collections sometimes causes error reporting dialogs to appear.
- Fixed an issue where certain suggested sites in the Pinning Wizard don’t get pinned to the taskbar.
- Fixed an issue where the toggle to sync open tabs isn’t functional.
- Fixed an issue where login details appear as autocomplete candidates for text fields that aren’t used for logging in.
- Fixed an issue where signing into the browser sometimes fails to properly set the profile picture.
- Fixed an issue on Mac where websites installed as apps don’t open and instead show an error if Edge isn’t already running.
- Fixed an issue on Mac where the update page spins forever or eventually shows an error after a successful update.
- Improved how much content is blocked by SmartScreen’s dangerous content blocker.
- Fixed an issue where highlighting text in the address bar then clicking on webpages sometimes causes black-on-dark text when the browser is in Dark Theme.
- Fixed some graphical flickering when switching between IE mode tabs and non-IE mode tabs.
- Fixed a white flash when entering Reading View.
- Improved the PDF reader’s background area color in Dark Theme.
- Fixed an issue where Application Guard windows sometimes don’t use the proper theme.
- Improved performance when opening Application Guard windows for the first time.
- Changed the name of the window that appears when you hover over a running instance of Edge on the Task Bar to only be the name of the active tab in that window instead of also containing the name of the profile and browser.
- Changed the behavior of “deprecated” management policies to still apply properly, which differs from Chrome’s definition of “not supported” policies. Both “not supported” in Chrome and “obsolete” in Edge are policies which are no longer supported and just show an error instead of being applied.
Known issues:
- After an initial fix for it recently, some users are still experiencing Edge windows becoming all black. UI popups like menus are not affected and opening the Browser Task Manager (keyboard shortcut is shift + esc) and killing the GPU process fixes it.
- Some users are still not seeing Collections being enabled by default on Canary and Dev. For users who want to try Collections, enabling the flag at edge://flags/#edge-collections should still work to turn on the feature.
- There are some issues where users with multiple audio output devices sometimes don’t get any sound from Edge. In one case, Edge becomes muted in the Windows Volume Mixer and unmuting it fixes it. In another, restarting the browser fixes it.
- At certain zoom levels, there is a noticeable line between the browser UI and the web contents.
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!
- Thank you very much for the hard work, it's really a great news that the duplication no longer happens and Sync works normally!
"Added a keyboard shortcut for starting Read Aloud (ctrl + shift + U)"
can you please add this shortcut to the ellipsis menu?
- josh_bodner
can you please add this shortcut to the ellipsis menu?
HotCakeX aha, good catch! Do you want to do the honors of filing the feedback we'll use to fix this bug?
josh_bodner wrote:can you please add this shortcut to the ellipsis menu?
HotCakeX aha, good catch! Do you want to do the honors of filing the feedback we'll use to fix this bug?
Sure, done 🙂
josh_bodner Microsoft edge started well but now the design looks like windows 10 with inconsistent design, Icons, scrollbar and folders...
josh_bodner I remember seeing it come up a while ago, but when can we see support for custom search engines on the NTP?
- I've been asking for this for 2 months now. It's ridiculous it hasn't been added already, especially this close to launch.
It's good to have that but then you will lose the ability to do company searches and awesome Microsoft rewards for gift cards, Surface Pros, HoloLens experiences, WMR, Xbox One X contest, Xbox Gold and more. I say it's worth sticking with Bing, search results are similar to Google anyways. 🙂 jraff
Red_namalas Yeah i agree i do miss that to, now the only option we do have is Bing on NTP
"Added the ability to paste multiple items into a Collection at the same time."
Maybe I am just dense, but I can't seem to find this feature to test it. Can you point me in the right direction?
jasonj-fraxion jasonj-fraxion wrote:
Spoiler"Added the ability to paste multiple items into a Collection at the same time."
Maybe I am just dense, but I can't seem to find this feature to test it. Can you point me in the right direction?
I was wondering the same. at first i thought they mean dragging multiple elements in a web page and dropping them into one collection but that has always been available
I actually hadn't done much dragging and dropping of items into collections, trying it again now shows me how useful it is, thanks.
When you say dragging multiple items in though, what exactly do you mean?
For example, when I highlight a block of search results, (and the accompanying text as a side effect), it just drops a single item in the collection with all of the test in it and the links not rendered as links. Is that what you mean?
That is also useful, but I thought at first you meant there was a way to multi select links in the page and drag them in, resulting inn multiple separate entries in the collection. *That* would be sure useful to me. It hadn't occurred to me to want it, but now I do. 🙂
josh_bodner It's very encouraging to see that you believe so strongly that the sync problems finally are a thing of the past. It does look promising so far, but I have a few questions:
- What happened to the built-in "deduplication" that was hinted at earlier? When my DEV install started syncing again, the duplicates that were still there propagated back to my other installs. For the last time, I hope, but it seems quite unnecessary to allow creation of two favorites with the same title and URL in the same folder. Surely these could be merged automatically.
- Isn't the "Tabs set aside" folder supposed to sync? It and all favorites in it stay on the browser on which they were imported. If the groups were named after the date of creation instead of a counter, contents from different browser instances could be merged without creating a mess.
- Are Collections using a different sync engine? I haven't seen any duplicates there, but sync eventually stops working in one or more directions.
- josh_bodner
- What happened to the built-in "deduplication" that was hinted at earlier?
dvdwnd we haven't rolled it out more broadly yet. I will say that it works though; I had about 10x more favorites due to duplication, and it cleaned them up beautifully!
As for any other issues with things not syncing properly like Collections or certain folders, it would really help us out if you opened up a support ticket at https://microsoftedgesupport.microsoft.com/hc/en-us/requests/new, that way our support agents could get the info from you that we need in order to get to the bottom of the issue.
josh_bodner Unfortunately this new version is broken on my laptop... It opens full white, no UI elements. After a minute the UI is visible again, but no pages can be browsed, including internal pages like edge://settings, the browser always returns STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION error code.
I had to revert to the beta.
Seeing the same issue. Dev (81.0.381.0) and Canary (81.0.387.0) is broken. Beta (79.0.309.60) works.
I'm also receiving STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION. From Event Viewer, I see the following:
Faulting application name: msedge.exe, version: 81.0.381.0, time stamp: 0x5e0eac60
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000001d7fe2
Faulting process id: 0x4630
Faulting application start time: 0x01d5c702a60d0ed2
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Dev\Application\msedge.exe
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: 001aab9f-8642-4513-a4da-d6e0fcdc29bc
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:- Spoiler
C-los wrote:I'm also receiving STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION. From Event Viewer, I see the following:
Faulting application name: msedge.exe, version: 81.0.381.0, time stamp: 0x5e0eac60
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000001d7fe2
Faulting process id: 0x4630
Faulting application start time: 0x01d5c702a60d0ed2
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Dev\Application\msedge.exe
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: 001aab9f-8642-4513-a4da-d6e0fcdc29bc
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:HiC-los
It could be related to DEP, not 100% sure
You can try turning it off to see if it changes anything
https://www.minitool.com/data-recovery/dep-data-execution-prevention-windows-10.html
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
Hi Dave. I tried the non-safe mode process you advised for @samuele2 and this made no difference. I confirmed Edge had no processes running, renamed the profile, ran Edge again and then nothing happened except for multiple processes starting in Task Manager. After a few minutes, I ended the processes and ran Edge again. This time it displayed the UI with an Edge closed unexpectedly dialog, still had white browser pages with "This page is having a problem". We can't even get into the Help -> about or Settings pages.
josh_bodner Added a keyboard shortcut for starting Read Aloud (ctrl + shift + U). yey!!!
josh_bodner Did anybody notice that Edge Team added an ugly scrollbar on the new tab page while news feed is enabled.
I don't know did anybody really ask for this ugly thing! There are lot of important bugs exist for months but they are busy with making fine running things ugly. Pathetic.
Dear Edge Team, Please remove this ugly scrollbar or at least give an option to disable it on the new tab page while news feed is enabled. Otherwise we have to bid farewell to Edge and go back to Google Chrome.
Thank you.
- Its not ugly at all. It look better and modern. In fact the round corner and transparent-background-scroll bar in windows is the one feature i always wanted to have. Thanks for the new Scroll Bar in Edge but it feels not that smooth but may be next time. Keep up the good work.
- Spoiler
TanvirArjel wrote:josh_bodner Did anybody notice that Edge Team added a ugly scrollbar on the new tab page while news feed is enabled.
I don't know did anybody really ask for this ugly thing! There are lot of important bugs exist for months but they are busy with making fine running things ugly. Pathetic.
Dear Edge Team, Please remove this ugly scrollbar on the new tab page while news feed is enabled. Otherwise we have to bid farewell to Edge and go back to Google Chrome.
Thank you.
Yes someone actually asked for this scrollbar on the NTP.
it doesn't look ugly to me but that's my opinion.
- Okay fine! But it really looks ugly to me. Then there should be an option to enable or disable it. This would be a perfect implementation.
- I liked the new bar, it's prettier than the traditional square
