Jan 15 2020 10:39 AM - edited Jan 15 2020 10:42 AM
Hello Insiders, today we’re releasing build 81.0.389.2 to the Dev Channel. It’s a smaller update this week since we’re focusing on our other channels, including our very first Stable channel update: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/01/15/upgrading-new-microsoft-edge-79-chromium/! As part of that, we also announced a fun opportunity coming up later today to talk directly to some members of our development team. For details, see https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/updated-a-chance-to-talk-directly-with-microsoft-....
Additionally, we’ve started a discussion about the future of the Fluent Design Language and how it’s utilized in Edge: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/discussion-updating-our-interface-with-fluent-tou.... As for the most noteworthy features and fixes this week:
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For those using the Beta channel, we're also releasing the first update to major version 80 to it this week. Thank you for all your feedback and bug finds that got us there!
Jan 28 2020 01:20 PM
Jan 28 2020 02:12 PM
I see it as a potential security problem and/or privacy leak (because of the required permissions/data access). Plus, I don't like how this extension works.
@FXHKI makes sense, we've gotten quite a lot of feedback about the trustworthiness of extensions. In fact, that's one of the main reasons we're creating our own extension store instead of just exclusively using Google's. Anything that's in our store has been vetted by us for a base level of security and trustworthiness, and we hope to import a substantial portion of the existing extensions from Chrome's store into ours in the future (assuming they pass our vetting process).
And I guess if you also have a particular problem with the way that extension functions, there are others you can try, although they most likely will operate similarly since there's no way for an extension to stop the last tab from closing and thus also taking down the window except by making sure it's actually not ever the last tab in the window (for example, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/live-on/oficfgdfeoknbjfhommlpiekdapmnebh/, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/keep-one-pinned-tab/nmcefdbkkkjndgafnlaikloffhdeknod).
Jan 28 2020 08:59 PM
Feb 03 2020 12:25 AM
@josh_bodner I feel like we're going in circles. Again, I will not use an extension from Google's store to add some basic functionality to a modern browser.
Feb 03 2020 04:41 AM
Aug 14 2020 06:54 AM
thank you for this suggestion.@HotCakeX