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Dev channel update to 85.0.564.8 is live

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Hello Insiders!  Today we’re releasing build 85.0.564.8 to the Dev channel.  This is the final build for major version 85, so expect it to be coming to Beta soon, and also possibly getting a few smaller fixes over the next week.  On the communications front, we’ve got a few things to point out: 

 

 

On the product side, here’s all that’s worth mentioning in terms of features and fixes this week: 

 

Added features: 

 

  • Added a button to the PDF toolbar for highlighting text. 
  • Added the ability to undo certain actions in Collections. 
  • Added the ability to reorder the extension icons on the toolbar using a keyboard shortcut (Alt + Shift + arrows). 
  • Added an option to the … menu for each item that appears on the Downloads shelf to report it as a safe or unsafe file (which option appears is dependent on SmartScreen’s determination of the file’s safety). 
  • Added the ability to import certain settings and cookies from Internet Explorer. 
  • Added a management policy to Exempt Domain File Type Pairs From File Type Download Warnings.  Note that Administrative Templates will come later. 
  • Added a management policy to control New Tab Page Allowed Background Types.  Note that Administrative Templates will come later. 
  • Added a management policy to control pre-rendering of the new tab page.  Note that administrative templates will come later. 
  • Enabled support for the Chromium management policy for Intensive Wake Up Throttling. 
  • Added support for the Chromium management policy to Auto Launch Protocols From Origins, which allows admins to define a list of protocols that can launch an external application from listed origins without a prompt. 
  • Added a feature to Kiosk Mode to close the browser when it’s idle (with the time limit being adjustable). 
  • Added an alert to the … menu of installed websites and apps when Edge has an update ready to be installed. 

 

Improved reliability: 

 

  • Fixed a crash when closing the browser after creating a new profile. 
  • Fixed an issue where opening a tab in IE mode sometimes crashes the browser. 
  • Fixed an issue where signing into the browser sometimes crashes the browser. 
  • Fixed an issue where moving a tab when it has the search sidebar open sometimes crashes the sidebar. 
  • Fixed an issue where attempting to print a PDF sometimes crashes the tab. 
  • Clicking links from external applications while Edge is waiting to restart to apply an update sometimes results in those links not loading properly. 
  • Fixed an issue where the Kindle reader website doesn’t load. 
  • Fixed an issue where attempting to share video, such as in a Microsoft Teams call, sometimes fails, and the recipient only sees a blank screen. 
  • Fixed an issue on Mac where the Sidebar Search option appears to be available but doesn’t do anything. 
  • Fixed an issue where pasting content into a Collection sometimes fails. 
  • Fixed an issue where pasting content into a text note in a Collection sometimes fails. 

 

Changed behavior: 

 

  • Changed the PDF reader to no longer prompt where to save an edited PDF every time it’s saved. 
  • Fixed an issue where data imported from other browsers during the first run experience sometimes isn’t deleted properly if the browser is closed before the first run experience is completed. 
  • Fixed an issue where the top border of the window can’t be used to resize it. 
  • Fixed an issue where the Pull To Refresh flag from upstream Chromium disappeared. 
  • Fixed an issue where clicking on the Switch button in the Guided Switch dialog sometimes does nothing. 
  • Fixed an issue where pinning an Edge shortcut to a specific profile or website to the Taskbar sometimes results in that shortcut not opening to the correct profile or website. 
  • Fixed an issue where pages sometimes try to translate into the same language they’re already in. 
  • Fixed an issue where pages are sometimes offered to be translated from random languages into the language they’re already in. 
  • Fixed an issue where browser profiles that aren’t signed in with work or school accounts sometimes incorrectly get Information Protection applied to them when another profile in the browser is signed in with a work or school account that has Information Protection applied to it. 
  • Fixed an issue where Immersive Reader is no longer available on certain webpages. 
  • Fixed an issue where the undo dialog when deleting a saved password from Settings doesn’t appear. 
  • Fixed an issue where the PDF toolbar sometimes doesn’t appear when it should. 
  • Improved the number of websites where Collections can retrieve an image for a website added to a Collection. 
  • Fixed an issue where the feedback dialog sometimes appears too big or cut off. 
  • Improved the performance of Edge updates that are manually triggered by viewing edge://settings/help. 
  • Improved the performance of clearing browsing data. 
  • Removed the Network Prediction setting. 
  • Removed the ability to search using the sidebar in PDF files because it is not functional. 

 

Known issues: 

 

  • Attempting to watch video in fullscreen will sometimes not work properly.  Instead of showing the video fullscreen, it will blow up or zoom the video to the size of the browser window.  This issue affects all Chromium-based browsers. 
  • Users of certain ad blocking extensions may experience playback errors on Youtube.  As a workaround, temporarily disabling the extension should allow playback to proceed.  See https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/known-issue-adblock-causing-errors-on-youtube/m-p/14... for more details. 
  • 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. 
  • 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.  For users with discrete GPUs, updating graphics drivers may help. 
  • 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 to everybody for your bug reports and suggestions! 

 

46 Replies

@josh_bodner Great to see these improvements and hope to see them in stable release soon.

Many users have been looking for these features.

@Glowtape what version of the drivers do you have installed?  And do you have any entries in edge://crashes that might give us any information?  Most importantly, do you have any example videos that this consistently happens for, or is it just for all videos?  And do you have any extensions installed that might be contributing to this?  

@josh_bodner I've reported a bug regarding typing Unicode characters (like Chinese and Japanese) using Windows IME at the address bar since version 85 rolled out to Dev channel. Since version 85 typing Unicode in the address bar is no longer possible. Therefore it is not possible to do searching directly at the address bar, also it's not possible to go to Unicode based URLs (though they are rare). However seems this report and bug has been ignored as I didn't it in the known problem.... I've updated it to Version 85.0.564.8 (Official build) dev (64-bit) but the bug still here....

 

This buggy behavior didn't happen in version 84 or any previous version of Edge (Old Edge or Chromium Edge)... Can you fix it before rolling out to beta? Thanks

@sscywong @josh_bodner Can second this as shown in the screenshots. But this seem like on and off thing, sometime it happened sometime it didn't as shown in the screenshots. 

Bug (Chinese)Bug (Chinese)Bug (Japanese)Bug (Japanese)Normal (Chinese)Normal (Chinese)Normal (Japanese)Normal (Japanese)

when you open bing in tab 3 ore more it jumb op to wher you whrits you web pages@josh_bodner 

You are also aware that this disables cloudsync = sync to a Microsoft account at the same time?
Something we don't want. We want a good roaming profile solution for our on prem / virtual desktops and sync to cloud aswell, since these users also use intune laptops...
best response confirmed by MissyQ (Microsoft)
Solution

Today's small update should provide a fix for the issue where some icons are too big.  Additionally, we improved the relevance of Family Safety reporting data, and we fixed an issue where certain management policies like HomepageLocation or NewTabPageLocation stopped working and returned a message that they were blocked.  

@josh_bodner  Do you plan to allow multiple picture-in-picture windows?

@josh_bodner The new "Picture dictionary" feature is fun to use when available !

I definitely miss the "simple" dictionary from Edge though. I can work around by using a bing sidebar search on the word I want, then adding "meaning" to the word query in the sidebar search. But this is less than ideal and it's one of the reasons I still do my reading on legacy Edge : One click on a word and the definition is there !
I know I can translate the entire page, but it does not improve my English as much as looking for definitions does, since I can't see what was translated into what.

 

Does the team have any plans for that classic dictionary yet, to go along with the picture dictionary :) ? 

@josh_bodner 

Any plans to improve web page rendering without needing to use an extension like "font rendering enhancer"?   This has been discussed for months in another discussion with fawkes (one of your developers)...

 

Firefox has darker, sharper fonts and photos look a bit richer also and doesn't need any extension... the Google developers have apparently no interest in taking care of this...we were hoping the MS Edge/Chrome developers would....We have been waiting many months....will this be done? and if so, when might we expect to see a change?  (we would also appreciate it if you'd let us know here)...

How to open IE mode?And how to turn off the collection so that its icons and functions are not displayed

Since version 85 typing Unicode in the address bar is no longer possible.

@sscywong I'll make sure it hasn't gotten lost in our feedback system and our engineers are aware!  

Does the team have any plans for that classic dictionary yet, to go along with the picture dictionary :) ? 


@AmineI good question!  It's on our backlog since it was something we had in Edge Classic, but we don't appear to have a timeline for when to expect it yet.  

 

Any plans to improve web page rendering without needing to use an extension like "font rendering enhancer"?   

@craig10x our work on font rendering is a longer-term project since it's something that touches a lot more of the internal guts of the browser than a lot of our UI work.  We definitely intend to keep working on it though since there's a noticeable difference between new Edge and Edge Legacy.  

Regarding the picture dictionary feature in Immersive Reader:-

 

I don't think its that much helpful and of any productive use. Its definitely a ''COOL'' feature to say. But I think it would be more helpful if :-

 

1. We can get definitions of the words we select much like Google dictionary in the web does. Nobody is going to hover the cursor to "mountain" and see a picture of it :face_with_tears_of_joy:. It cannot be called productive. 

 

eg......

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OR look at Wikipedia page its also there....

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2. Select some currency value and right click menu gives an option to convert it on the fly.

 

3. Selecting a time and it can be converted to the time in different time zone.

 

4. These are the most common ones but there can be many more..........

 

These features can be really helpful as the user will no longer have to open a new tab for this.

 

Even the Immersive Reader is unable to display math symbols properly in some websites and sometimes does not load the complete page.

@zhang615 

Here is where you can get information about IE Mode.  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/edge-ie-mode

 

You can right-click the collections icon to hide it.  There may be a management policy where you can turn it off.  I'm not sure.

thank you :nerd_face:

@Limyx826 our engineers were able to reproduce this themselves, so they're working on a fix.  Thanks for the detailed pictures that helped us figure out the steps!