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 12 2020 05:19 AM
Yes, I have the stable Edge on about 4 computers and I never disconnected it from my MS account.
Even though I never intentionally open the "old" Edge anymore, sometimes it will open up claiming it is my default browser, so I guess we have a big party here...
Should I unlink the stable version from my MS account on all computers? Sorry for the mess I created
Thanks.
Feb 12 2020 05:29 AM
@Eyal_Shahar wrote:
Yes, I have the stable Edge on about 4 computers and I never disconnected it from my MS account.
Even though I never intentionally open the "old" Edge anymore, sometimes it will open up claiming it is my default browser, so I guess we have a big party here...
Should I unlink the stable version from my MS account on all computers? Sorry for the mess I created
Thanks.
Well I think it's better to get rid of stable versions of Edge, everywhere, until this is fixed:
Planned for February | Favorites sync issues, including sync not working, deleted favorites reappearing, and favorites being duplicated |
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/top-feedback-summary-for-february-11/m-p/1167413
(I'd add to that: favorites not syncing and favorite getting lost)
I'd give Edge stable another shot probably around May 2020, for now you can use Canary channel, it has more features and once that fix for favorite syncing is released, it will first come to Canary:)
I personally have to rely on Firefox for now because I don't want to get another headache sorting my favorites or worrying whether they are syncing properly or not.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/duplicate-favorites-bookmarks/td-p/1165889
Feb 12 2020 08:35 AM
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Feb 12 2020 08:56 AM - edited Feb 12 2020 09:14 AM
@josh_bodner Finally I found out what to do to sync favorites and what is the showstopper to it.
We have a local AD connected to AzureAD. I've learned that all users need to have Enterprise State Roam enabled in AzureAD. Edge is configured via GPO to automatically sign the user (Browser Sign-In enabled, Proactive Authentication enabled).
Still on most devices I wondered why edge shows that sync is disabled for this account.
With this settings Edge creates per default a new profile with the account name "<local domain>\<username>" (local account) instead of "<username>@<domain>" (connected Microsoft business account used for M365 apps). Profiles with the this account name (local user) aren't synced. This needs to be replaced by a manually created profile with selecting the Microsoft business account to enable sync. Nothing I can tell every user to do.
In the local AD the account name is set to the version with "<username>@<domain>".
Is there any option to tell Edge to use the "<username>@<domain>" business account for profile creation and sign-in?
One addition: I've noticed that in the past one of the Edge Dev Version created a folder on OneDrive for the Collections. It seems that this isn't done anymore, correct? Or does it happen only under special circumstances?
Feb 12 2020 09:03 AM
@HotCakeX You may want to read my post below. A few minutes ago we successfully replaced Edge (dev) by Edge (stable) with working sync.
Feb 12 2020 10:01 AM
@FedeDiLo wrote:
I don't understand how to highlight. I cannot find any button at the top, and if I select the text I cannot find the option to highlight it.
Also, I have some issues selecting the text with the surface pen. I would like to have the same smooth behaviour I had on Classic Edge
This should help
Also try enabling the flag: edge://flags/
Enables creation and modification of Text Highlights for PDF. – Mac, Windows
Feb 12 2020 10:02 AM
@Eyal_Shahar wrote:
I stopped the sync all of my Stable Edge versions.
None of my favorites was lost, only the icons but I get them back as soon as I use the link.
I am good with the Dev version, IMHO it's the best browser out there today.
Thanks for the help.
Eyal.
You're welcome! if you have enough RAM, depending on how many favorites you have, you can open them all at once ;)
Feb 12 2020 10:04 AM
@Thomas_Gessert wrote:@HotCakeX You may want to read my post below. A few minutes ago we successfully replaced Edge (dev) by Edge (stable) with working sync.
Yes, nobody said sync doesn't work, but sync on Edge stable causes favorites to duplicate. I've experienced it, another user experienced it on this thread too.
I use 2 Edge instances.
Feb 12 2020 10:37 AM
Why? The lose of icons is a great opportunity to identify all my unused favorites and delete them
Feb 12 2020 10:49 AM
Feb 12 2020 11:40 AM
@Thomas_Gessert the type of account that's created is dependent on the way your organization has Windows set up. If your machines are AAD-J or Hybrid AD joined, then you'll get the correct type of account created (username@domain); if your machines are on-prem joined + workplace joined, then Edge creates the domain\username account. Right now, the only way to get Edge to create the correct account type by default is to get your organization to hybrid join their devices (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/devices/hybrid-azuread-join-federated-domain..., https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/devices/hybrid-azuread-join-managed-domains)... And while we're investigating a way to make it so that Edge just does the right thing all the time, we're still a ways away from getting there.
Feb 12 2020 12:26 PM
@Glowtape - Can you please file a report via the feedback and capture the logs by choosing "Recreate my problem"? This will help us diagnose the issue better.
Also, have your tried restarting the machine to see if this error continues to persist ?
Thanx for your help.
Feb 13 2020 02:16 AM
Feb 13 2020 08:28 AM
@josh_bodner What happened to this flag: Enable GPU AppContainer Lockdown? The feature does not appear to be integrated by default into Dev version. Can you please provide details?
Feb 13 2020 01:59 PM
@ahl2ndc yup, we can thank the forum for vacuuming up the punctuation I put after the link
Feb 13 2020 02:03 PM
@FrankDeNunzio that flag probably expired when we moved to major version 82. By default, all flags have an expiry date, although it's often arbitrary what it's set to initially.
Feb 13 2020 03:23 PM