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josh_bodner
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MicrosoftDev channel update to 81.0.396.0 is live
Hello Insiders, today we’re releasing build 81.0.396.0 to the Dev Channel. It’s another small update this week as all the excitement from our Stable launch last week winds down (see this post thanking you for all your help in getting us there: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/a-huge-thank-you-to-this-insiders-group/m-p/1111413). For those of you on ARM devices, we also released native ARM64 builds to the Beta channel last week. Now, all of the most noteworthy changes:
Added features:
- Added a dialog to warn users when they’re visiting a website that uses out-of-date security settings.
- Added a setting to enable or disable automatic profile switching (when work or school links are opened are opened in a personal profile, the browser will offer to automatically move that link into a window for the work or school profile).
- Added support for extensions inside Application Guard windows.
- Added a dialog to warn users when they sign into a browser profile with a different account than they previously used to sign into the same profile.
Improved reliability:
- Fixed an issue where navigating to certain websites sometimes crashes the browser.
- Fixed an issue where downloading certain items in IE mode causes a browser crash.
- Fixed an issue where the new tab page sometimes doesn’t load properly.
- Fixed a browser crash.
Changed behavior:
- Improved the download status indicator on the Task Bar to only be visible on the icon of a window the download was started from instead of being visible on the icon of every window.
- Reduced the height of the title bar for websites installed as apps.
- Fixed an issue where some users can’t sign into the browser or sync using a work or school account.
- Fixed an issue where the profile button has an incorrectly colored background.
- Fixed an issue where the context menu item to open a link in a particular profile doesn’t appear if only a single profile is currently in use.
- Fixed an issue where the address bar and dropdown appear white when the browser is in dark theme.
- Fixed an issue where the profile picture on the profile Settings page sometimes doesn’t load properly.
- Fixed an issue where dangerous websites blocked by SmartScreen aren’t blocked consistently.
- Fixed an issue where the options to choose which data types to import during the first run experience don’t work and all data types are subsequently imported.
- Fixed an issue where clicking a favorite on the Favorites management page in order to navigate to that site briefly brings up the editing textbox before the navigation starts.
- Fixed an issue where clearing browsing history while the History page is visible doesn’t update the History page until it’s refreshed.
- Fixed an issue where the translate icon sometimes doesn’t appear on Mac when it should.
- Fixed an issue where certain settings aren’t updated in Application Guard windows when the setting is changed in a regular window.
- Fixed an issue where right clicking on context menu items in a Collection doesn’t dismiss the context menu.
- Fixed an issue where clicking on a note in a Collection to edit the text places the cursor at the beginning of the note instead of the location where it was clicked.
- Fixed an issue where adding items to a Collection from certain websites results in some information being missing from the entry.
- Fixed an issue where PDFs that are supposed to be blocked from printing via management policy sometimes aren’t.
- Removed support for the NewTabPageCompanyLogo management policy since it isn’t functional.
Known issues:
- Users of certain security software packages will see all tabs fail to load with the error STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION. The only way to prevent this behavior is to uninstall that software.
- 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. Note that some of these fixes don’t yet exist in the Stable channel, and the issue only appears to affect users with certain hardware.
- 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.
A special thanks to all our Insiders who checked out our Stable channel over this past week. We hope you continue being Insiders so we can keep seeing you here!
josh_bodner Thanks for the update. Loving the new Edge.
I'm now using the official release version as my main browser and I'm happy it doesn't use the intrusive yellow icons. If you guys decide to bring them from the dev to the release version, PLEASE include an option for us to choose between the modern and yellow icons. PLEASE don't force these yellow icons on all of us.
Also, why is what appears to be a Microsoft staff in this post marking someone's personal opinion on the yellow icons as a "best answer". Looks very biased and improper to me.Also, why is what appears to be a Microsoft staff in this post marking someone's personal opinion on the yellow icons as a "best answer". Looks very biased and improper to me.
Since Microsoft Employee accounts have the ability to mark any comment as best response, they just sometimes do this, they think they like a comment, so instead of actually using the like button, they mark it as best response.
You as the OP can easily remove the best response mark.
- BTW, it is marked as "Best Response" not best answer......
Dennis5mile - josh_bodner
Yeah, I have no idea either.. I log in and there it was.... "Best Response"
Dennis5mile
I wish to report an issue with collections
I have stored my edge profile somewhere else.I used a junction to link it back to default location. Everything on edge works fine like this except collections. The collections tab doesn't respond in this configuration all no collection is visible. I can't create a new collection or do anything . Everything becomes normal once I keep the profile folder back and remove the junction. Please resolve this issue as only this feature doesn't work.
Santosh
- josh_bodner
I used a junction to link it back to default location. Everything on edge works fine like this except collections.lssatvik Collections is still under active development, so it's possible that they're changing the underlying file structure that they rely on, and the way you're redirecting your profile folder is breaking the assumptions they're making about where their files live. Given that moving your user data folder isn't something we explicitly support, you'll probably need to open a support ticket so that our support agents can get some more details about your situation.
Collections Export to Word still results in an error.
And there is a new issue, where I cannot add a page as an app (page is not added or does not show up).EDIT: The pop-up to Install the site as app shows up, when i click on any url or search anything in search bar.
- josh_bodner
I cannot add a page as an app (page is not added or does not show up).ph_007 looks like other people (including myself) are seeing the same thing. I'll make sure we have a bug filed for it!
josh_bodnerWhy red color is used when cookies are blocked?
I have blocked third party cookies, which I think is norm, so almost every site I visit, I see more or less this icon. I am fine with icon, but why red color is added recently, it should be monochrome. It is not dangerous to block cookies, mere monochrome icon is enough as in last 2019 dev build.
I believe Browser UI should be non intrusive and simple.
- I wish I could go back several versions! This release is the worst yet. Countless blackouts and crashes and extremely laggy. How is it possible to go backwards?
When I first started using this new Edge version, it felt lightweight and nippy. It's what set it apart from other Chromium based browsers. Now, it feels like it's carry three woolly mammoths on it's back - really lethargic.
It's gotten to the point where it's not feeling unique any more. If the stable releases are anything like this, I shall be going back to something else. Very disappointing.
josh_bodner wrote:Fixed an issue where the profile button has an incorrectly colored background.
This is technically still an issue, I have two AAD/O365 connected profiles in Edge, previous to this update both profiles would display a "sign in" button which did nothing. Now that no longer happens, both profiles are signed in, but for both I get the message "Sync isn’t available for this account." with no indication as to why. This does seem to be a bug because on another computer where Edge Dev is installed and uses one of the AAD/O365 connected profiles syncing appears to work.
Thanks,
-Aaron
- josh_bodner
AaronMcHale can you sign out of your account? If so, we've seen instances where signing out and then signing back in fixes sync for some people.
Not sure if it's the same team that work on the mobile version, but are there plans to add <meta name="theme-colour"...> support there? I like how this is integrated on the desktop for installed apps, but after all, this feature was first introduced on chrome for android iirc.
p.s. Thanks for the title bar size change on installed apps as well
- "Added support for extensions inside Application Guard windows."
How does this work?- Have you tried? When I try it only says "This site is trying to open TWINUI". And nothing happens after clicking to "Open".
Has history syncing been enabled yet? Or is that a per-profile-basis thing? I recall there was an update weeks ago that said that history syncing was re-enabled, but I haven't been able to activate the option. It still just says something along the lines of "We'll activate it when it's ready"
- josh_bodner
PottyZA it was favorites sync that we re-enabled a few weeks ago, not history. History shouldn't be rolled out to anybody yet.
- Thanks for the info, I must've been mistaken. Keep up the good work!
Is Custom Search sync on the roadmap? I love using custom searches, but they're a pain to set up all over on every new machine. Seems like it shouldn't be any harder than synchronizing Favorites. Please?
The local temperature on the NTP showed up (correctly) in Celsius at some point after the previous update. This update seems to have regressed to Fahrenheit. Not that I can know for sure as it only gives the temperature in "degrees" (e.g. "27°") which could be anything. Changing the "language & content" has no effect.
It would also be nice to be able to set the language and country differently. I prefer seeing content in English but English is not an official language where I live. Windows lets me do this already so it'd be great if Edge could just use the system locale as default.
- josh_bodner
Changing the "language & content" has no effect.AlanPlum we recently found one possible cause of the temperature being wrong, and it's that the location isn't being set properly. Can you check to see if your location is correct?
josh_bodner I did not change location in between, so this doesn't make intuitive sense to me. However I just checked the NTP again and the temperature is correct again. Note that clicking on the "wrong" (really, most likely just Fahrenheit instead of Celsius) weather icon did send me to the correct weather page before. This would be a lot easier to diagnose if there was a way to force it to show the actual units though (FWIW I've never seen the unit being omitted for Celsius before, even in English -- is this a Fahrenheit thing?).
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