Feb 11 2020 10:34 AM
Hello Insiders, today we’re releasing build 81.0.416.3 to the Dev Channel. We expect this to be the last build for major version 81, which means we will soon be bringing it to the Beta channel. Additionally, for those of you who have the Stable channel installed, we released our first update to Stable last week, bringing it up to major version 80, and for people on ARM64 machines, installing the native ARM64 build of Stable. We also started a discussion last week around Edge Legacy’s Tab Preview feature and what you’d like to see us do with it in the future: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/tab-preview-discussion/m-p/1160569. Finally, all of the features and fixes worth mentioning this week:
Added features:
Improved reliability:
Changed behavior:
Known issues:
As always, thanks for all your feedback and suggestions!
Feb 11 2020 10:57 AM
Feb 11 2020 01:06 PM - edited Feb 11 2020 01:06 PM
PDF highlighting is a nice feature, but there is a bug in your implementation. If I highlight in yellow, and then the same text in blue, I end up with with green!
I don't think this is the behaviour most people are expecting, and there is also no option to remove the highlighting in case you make a mistake or change your mind. Can you also add a toolbar button please, as well as the right click menu.
Feb 11 2020 01:17 PM
@Tom_Fox wrote:
PDF highlighting is a nice feature, but there is a bug in your implementation. If I highlight in yellow, and then the same text in blue, I end up with with green!
I don't think this is the behaviour most people are expecting, and there is also no option to remove the highlighting in case you make a mistake or change your mind. Can you also add a toolbar button please, as well as the right click menu.
Hi, about 1 month ago I had the same question, so I asked and here is the answer the Edge developers gave me:
"Selection is not needed to modify (change color) or to delete existing highlight. Option to delete a highlight is displayed with right click over an existing highlight.
When a selection is made, options displayed are to create a highlight from selection and thus can be used to create overlapping highlights."
To complete that:
I can create a quick demo video for you if you want :)
Feb 11 2020 02:14 PM
Okay, I get it now. It's a different implementation to every other Microsoft product I use at the moment, where you only get 1 highlight colour, but I can live with it
I still think they need to add a toolbar button for it though, and all of the missing PDF features that you get in Classic Edge and other browsers.
Feb 11 2020 02:15 PM - edited Feb 11 2020 02:16 PM
@josh_bodner I'd rather prefer the top left corner button for InPrivate (and AppGuard), but I guess it'll have to do how things are now with the colored button.
Also, I wanted to try if AppGuard mode has a colored accent now, but it doesn't appear to want to start. The starting dialog box shows up, takes it sweet time sitting at "Starting 90%" then it disappears without displaying an AppGuard window. The AppGuard VM is however running.
I have other Hyper-V VMs running just fine, and Sandbox also fires up properly with VGPU enabled. So I'm not sure why AppGuard doesn't work.
Feb 11 2020 02:17 PM
Running this version of Edge Dev is causing lsass.exe to start and run at about 15-17% cpu and go on and on even after closing Edge Dev - had to restart Windows 10 laptop to stop it. Repeats behaviour every time. Not a problem with current Edge Canary.
However, as you have dealt with 0 out of 3 of my sine qua non issues with Chromium Edge features, have given zero sign of any intention to address them, and I only run Dev and Canary to check on any progress with those issues, don't feel you need to rush to fix bugs on my account.
Feb 11 2020 02:55 PM
@josh_bodner
Great job.
The O365 new tab page is very useful, though I do not understand why you keep this feature for business users only. Why not let all Office 365 users have access to this feature?
Feb 11 2020 03:22 PM
@Tom_Fox personally, I agree that a toolbar button for the highlighter would be useful! Can you (and anybody else who wants it) please file feedback asking for it? That way, it puts a work item in our database and we can measure how many people want it compared to other things.
Feb 11 2020 03:24 PM
Also, for all the people hitting Application Guard issues, I'll see if I can get somebody from the Application Guard team on here to figure out what's going on.
Feb 11 2020 08:49 PM
@Tom_Fox wrote:
Okay, I get it now. It's a different implementation to every other Microsoft product I use at the moment, where you only get 1 highlight colour, but I can live with it
I still think they need to add a toolbar button for it though, and all of the missing PDF features that you get in Classic Edge and other browsers.
Yeah It takes some time to figure it out.
IMO the best way to implement it is like this: when you highlight a piece of text (with mouse or touch), the highlight option should automatically appear above the highlighted text to offer the color options and other missing features from Edge classic like word definitions, add notes etc)
so this way you won't need to right-click anymore.
I think this dynamic style is better than the static toolbar solution.
Feb 11 2020 08:54 PM
@FasihSayin wrote:The O365 new tab page is very useful, though I do not understand why you keep this feature for business users only. Why not let all Office 365 users have access to this feature?
Like for home users?
But Home, personal and student Office 365 subscriptions don't have the same functionalities as Business, ProPlus and Enterprise subscriptions. the latter has central management capabilities while the former is just for single personal use. so for Home/Student/Personal Office 365 subscriptions, the O365 NTP would be as good as the normal NTP.
Feb 12 2020 12:46 AM
@HotCakeX
I don't think you'd need central management capabilities. The home user's account is usually connected to microsoft account and synced through onedrive anyway. For me a work-dashboard with my latest dcoment files and upcoming meetings and today's tasks is way more valuable than a speed dial page.
Feb 12 2020 01:49 AM
@FasihSayin wrote:@HotCakeX
I don't think you'd need central management capabilities. The home user's account is usually connected to microsoft account and synced through onedrive anyway. For me a work-dashboard with my latest dcoment files and upcoming meetings and today's tasks is way more valuable than a speed dial page.
I know, but meetings like from Microsoft Teams, documents from Sharepoint and other parts of the Office 365 business products are Not available on Office 3650 Home subscriptions.
so it's normal not to see Office 365 NTP on Edge for Home subscriptions of Office 365.
Home means only you and probably your family is using not all, but few main Office products. in that area, there is no work meeting, no work document etc.
all of that belong to the business/enterprise tiers.
Sharepoint and Microsoft Teams.
Feb 12 2020 02:30 AM
I tried the "tool on the Favorites management page to remove duplicate favorites" and now I have so many new duplicates I can hardly find anything :(
Feb 12 2020 03:00 AM
Feb 12 2020 03:02 AM - edited Feb 12 2020 03:03 AM
Added an option in edge://settings/profiles/multiProfileSettings to choose a default profile to use when opening links in external applications.
Oh, thank you! ❤
That's the most important update in a browser, since I started using browsers with multiple profiles.
This day just turned much better.
Feb 12 2020 04:07 AM
@Eyal_Shahar wrote:I tried the "tool on the Favorites management page to remove duplicate favorites" and now I have so many new duplicates I can hardly find anything :(
Is one of your Edge channels connected to your MSA stable channel?
Feb 12 2020 04:39 AM
Feb 12 2020 04:49 AM