Dev channel update to 81.0.381.0 is live

Microsoft

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! 

 

205 Replies

@HotCakeX i've tried to change the DEP and it still didnt help.

@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. 

@C-los I too am experiencing this STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION error.   When you roll back, are settings retained including collections? 

@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 :(

@Steven Sanders I wasnt able to rollback

@David Hurst 


@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

@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

@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

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@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.

 

 

 

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@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.

@josh_bodner 

 

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.

:grinning_face:

Seeing the same issue. Dev (81.0.381.0) and Canary (81.0.387.0) is broken. Beta (79.0.309.60) works.

After update to this build, I encounter many website with this error:

 

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@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

@Drew1903  I can confirm we have multiple instance of this breaking immediately after the latest release and we are all on 1909.

 

@kamfung 


@kamfung wrote:

After update to this build, I encounter many website with this error:

 

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the message is obvious though, that website is using an older version of TLS, probably ver 1.1 or 1, anything lower than 1.3

 

interesting this is, Firefox has also started giving me similar messages

 

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That's because of CFRs, it's normal.
" 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'm on Firefox 73 and it's not happening like you said.
it's the same as Microsoft Edge insider. no matter right-click and choose open in new tab or middle mouse clicking a bookmark from the drop down bookmark menu, it still gets closed.

@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