Dev channel update to 84.0.502.0 is live

[josh_bodner]

Hello Insiders!  Today we’re releasing build 84.0.502.0 to the Dev channel.  This week, we’ve got an article describing Automatic Profile Switching (informally referred to as Guided Switch in the past) in more detail:  https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/04/30/automatic-profile-switching/.  As for all of this week’s most noteworthy additions: 

Added features: 

• Added a “don’t show again” option to the warning that appears when launching Edge with Administrator privileges. 
• Added the ability to exit ink/highlight mode in PDFs by hitting the Esc key on the keyboard. 
• Added security to the saved payment cards section of Settings by requiring extra authorization before editing a saved card. 
• Added the ability for Windows Information Protection for extend to the Share feature. 
• Added a red PDF highlighter color. 
• Added checkboxes to the entries on the Favorites and History management pages. 
• Added new Read Aloud voices. 

Improved reliability: 

• Fixed an issue where all webpages and extensions crash immediately upon load. 
• Fixed an issue where video on certain websites like Netflix sometimes doesn’t load properly. 
• Fixed an issue where viewing certain Settings pages crashes the browser. 
• Fixed an issue where right clicking a highlighted portion of a PDF crashes the browser. 
• Fixed a crash when signing into the browser. 
• Fixed a crash on Mac. 
• Fixed an issue where signing out of the browser and then attempting to sign back into the browser using the same email address fails. 
• Fixed an issue where exporting a Collection to Excel or Word fails for certain Collection names. 

Changed behavior: 

• Fixed an issue where the Shy UI was too eager to deploy when the mouse was near the top of the screen. 
• Fixed an issue where tooltips sometimes get stuck onscreen even when the Edge window is no longer in the foreground. 
• Fixed an issue where autofill popups sometimes appear over website-generated popups when typing into text fields on websites. 
• Fixed an issue where the Feedback dialog sometimes closes unexpectedly. 
• Fixed an issue where websites installed as apps sometimes uninstall themselves. 
• Fixed an issue where subsequent web pages from the same site sometimes can’t be installed as apps once one page from a site is. 
• Fixed an issue where the title bar for websites installed as apps is sometimes too short. 
• Fixed an issue with IE mode tabs where browser dialogs to log into websites are sometimes hidden. 
• Fixed an issue where IE mode tabs sometimes aren’t zoomed properly. 
• Fixed an issue where videos sometimes appear cut off or too small in their frame. 
• Fixed an issue where searching on the Favorites management page sometimes doesn’t initially scroll the page to where the first entry is found. 
• Fixed an issue on Mac where the media controls sometimes appear on the Touch Bar on webpages where there is no controllable media playing. 
• Fixed an issue where attempting to delete text when editing an item in a Collection sometimes exits editing unexpectedly. 
• Fixed an issue with the surf game where Time Trial mode sometimes doesn’t save high scores. 
• Removed the back button from certain websites installed as apps. 

Known issues: 

• Users of the Kaspersky Internet Suite who have the associated extension installed may sometimes see webpages like Gmail fail to load.  This failure is due to the main Kaspersky software being out of date, and is thus fixed by making sure the latest version is installed. 
• Some users are seeing favorites get duplicated after we made some previous fixes in that area. The most common way this is triggered is by installing the Stable channel of Edge and then signing into it with an account that has already signed into Edge before.  Fixing this should be easier now that the deduplicator tool is available.  However, we’ve also seen duplication happen when running the deduplicator on multiple machines before either machine has a chance to fully sync its changes, so while we wait for some of the fixes we’ve made to come to Stable, make sure to leave plenty of time in between runs of the deduplicator.  We hope that this will be improved now that version 81 is released to Stable. 
• After an initial fix for it recently, some users are still experiencing Edge windows becoming all black.  Opening the Browser Task Manager (keyboard shortcut is shift + esc) and killing the GPU process usually fixes it.  Note that this only appears to affect users with certain hardware and is most easily triggered by resizing an Edge window. 
• Some users are seeing “wobbling” behavior when scrolling using trackpad gestures or touchscreens, where scrolling in one dimension also causes the page to subtly scroll back and forth in the other.  Note that this only affects certain websites and seems to be worse on certain devices.  This is most likely related to our ongoing work to bring scrolling back to parity with Edge Legacy’s behavior, so if this behavior is undesirable, you can temporarily turn it off by disabling the edge://flags/#edge-experimental-scrolling flag. 
• 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. 

As always, thanks for all your valuable feedback! 

[#2]

@josh_bodner 

Is there an ETA / roadmap to include SSO / SAML assertion to handle identity federation? I imagine this would be a major roadblock in wider adoption in enterprises?

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/enterprise/sso-and-saml-doesn-t-work-on-the-dev-build-of-micr...

[#3]

I believe in a different post he made mention of it doing sort of a soft rollout over windows updates right now. Some people are getting some people are not, for now.

[#4]

@RichardBottiglieri the blank password settings page is a known issue, thanks for reporting!  

[#5]

@AmineI I think that clearing browsing data exception behavior might be a different bug.  If the cookies are indeed being persisted, I (as a user, like you) would also expect the local storage to persist as well, so I'll ask the team about it.  Just out of curiosity, how did you figure that out, in case we need to be able to reproduce the behavior ourselves?  

[#6]

@Woj__ @Dakico @Ed Sparks Thank you all for reaching out, it's great to hear that you're excited about Password Monitor! To clear up any confusion: our team decided to do some more tweaking before releasing the feature, so we removed that tile from our What's New page. However, rest assured that we'll provide lots of detailed communications about how to access it once it's ready.

We appreciate your interest, and can't wait to share this with you soon!

Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge

[#7]

The same problem happens to me. Very upset

[#8]

@sheetalmukul I haven't heard anything about people having trouble with that before.  Perhaps your company's setup requires Edge to be configured a certain way to get it to work?  Like, have you tried any of our policies like https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#http-authentication-policies to see if they help? 

[#9]

@josh_bodner  -- there is a bug in the latest DEV release when you open a link and there are tabs already open it seems to squish them to the far left of the window.  You then need to hit the maximize button twice to resize the window and fix the tabs to the original size.

It only seems to be when you have the Edge DEV browser minimized then click on a link.  If the browser is open it behaves normally with the tab opening and size.  See attached.

[#10]

@josh_bodner 

Thanks for the guidance and I think this is what I am looking for. But I am not super familiar with setting or changing the policies. Could you please share more details or a tutorials on how I can set the AuthServerAllowList and AuthNegotiateDelegateAllowlist parameters on my Mac?

[#11]

@AmineI awesome, thanks for the info!  I'll make sure it gets added to the feedback item.  

[#12]

@Chris Childerhose yup, the squished tabs is a known issue.  We're hoping to have a fix into Canary in time for next week's Dev, but we don't know if it'll make it in time at this point.  

[#13]

@sheetalmukul changing policies is something your company should manage.  I guess I should have asked, is this your work device or a personal computer?  

[#14]

@josh_bodner 

This is a work computer, but Microsoft Edge is not on the roadmap for me so I am trying to evaluate and use it and eventually recommend it as an official browser. I tried setting the policies / preferences through plist but they are not taking effect.