Oct 20 2020 11:34 AM
Hello Insiders! Today we’re releasing build 88.0.673.0 to the Dev channel. As you can see, this is the first build from major version 88, and it’s a very special build, because it marks our first release for Linux to the Dev channel! For all the details, see https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/10/20/microsoft-edge-dev-linux/. We’ve also had lots of other exciting news over the past week:
As for the changes in Edge this week:
Added features:
Improved reliability:
Changed behavior:
Known issues:
We’re also rolling out version 87 to Beta today, so look for those updates as well!
Oct 21 2020 09:40 PM
@erictbar given that Zorin isn't one of our officially supported distros, I'm not surprised it's got some issues. If you use the alt+shift+i shortcut to send feedback, is the feedback window usable? It might be interesting to see if we can get any logs from that.
Oct 21 2020 09:41 PM
@Wittycat that flag looks like it came from Chromium, so since it's not one of ours, I'm not sure what it did. What was the behavior before when you had access to the flag, and what's different now?
Oct 21 2020 10:18 PM
Oct 21 2020 11:29 PM
Can someone make me understand that how can an application crash while closing it and how to notice that?
Oct 22 2020 11:10 AM - edited Oct 22 2020 11:33 AM
@josh_bodnerI have the same issue with Edge Dev 88.0.673.0-1 on Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS system running in Parallels Desktop 16. I do only see the title bar of the Edge Dev window but the window content is all white. Probably a compatibility problem with the Parallels graphics driver and/or graphics acceleration in Edge Dev?
EDIT: Solved! Run Edge Dev using microsoft-edge-dev --disable-gpu to disable hardware acceleration. This should successfully start Edge Dev. One can disable hardware acceleration permanently by disabling Settings -> System -> Use hardware acceleration when available until Parallels provides a fix. It seems to be a problem with their graphics driver as Google Chrome shows the same behavior when run in Parallels/Linux.
Oct 22 2020 11:45 AM
@Jens_Siebert Thanks. I was using another flag, but --disable-gpu is much better.
https://forum.parallels.com/threads/google-chrome-black-screen-on-ubuntu-18-04.347169/#post-875330
Oct 22 2020 07:37 PM
@josh_bodner Is there a change in "view-source:"? In Edge dev 88.0.673.0 (also in Beta, Canary and Chrome Canary), the source code is not wrapped while it is wrapped in Edge Stable 86.0.622.5. It is more convenient for me to view a wrapped source code. Can I have an option to get back Word Wrap in "view-source:"?
Oct 22 2020 11:41 PM
@sdmmr If Chrome is doing the same thing, this is likely something they changed upstream and we inherited it. The good news is that it's pretty trivial to get the old behavior back since it looks like they just changed a few CSS properties. If you change them back by adding those 3 properties to the main table, you can get the old behavior:
So, it's probably also trivial to write an extension to automatically do that. In the meantime, you should also file feedback directly from the Devtools (even though I know this technically isn't in the Devtools) since those are the folks who would be the most interested in this.
Oct 22 2020 11:42 PM
@Wittycat Just to be clear, did you want to prevent the autofill popup from appearing at all, or just from appearing until you interact with the form?
Oct 22 2020 11:44 PM
@TheShaunSaw The easiest way to notice if Edge crashes when an individual window is closed is if all your other windows disappear at the same time. If Edge only crashes when the last window is closed though, then the easiest way to tell is if the prompt to restore your tabs shows up the next time you open Edge, since that only appears when Edge crashes.
Oct 23 2020 07:51 AM
Oct 23 2020 08:58 AM - edited Oct 23 2020 08:59 AM
Found a bug in this Edge dev that I reported using feedback tool and I hope problem recorder captured all the necessary data, but others can try reproduce it and report it as well with diagnostic data using feedback tool.
so every time I launch Edge Dev using a website shortcut that was pinned to taskbar via "Pin to taskbar" or "taskbar pinning wizard" ,
the Edge updater shows an error
edge://settings/help
However, when I launch Edge Dev normally using the Edge Dev shortcut from taskbar/start menu/desktop, this error isn't shown and Edge checks for update successfully.
Oct 23 2020 09:30 AM
@josh_bodner When using dark theme once again entire tab flashes white on navigation or opening new tab. Really defeats the whole purpose of dark theme, the flashes are way worse than staring at white pages. Must be regression because it wasn't doing it for quite some time (current release version doesn't do it either).
Oct 23 2020 03:14 PM
@HotCakeX It looks like this isn't new since I can also reproduce it in Stable, so I'm going to ask our installer team if this is intentional (I sure hope it isn't!)
Oct 23 2020 03:52 PM
@dstarkowski I suspect this is a side-effect of the work we've been doing to render new tabs faster, so just to confirm, do you see this on every new tab, or is it only some of the time?
Oct 23 2020 04:09 PM
@dstarkowski The same thing happens to me (but only 3~4 times since I installed this on January 15.)
Oct 23 2020 09:52 PM
Oct 26 2020 02:31 AM
@josh_bodner Thanks for responding.
It happens every time I open new page (but not in InPrivate) and when I navigate with back, forward or opening favorites. It does not happen when I navigate via a link on a page.
Seems to me when navigating with normal links on pages the old page stays rendered on a screen. When navigating with any of above means, the "fresh" page appears and it's blank white until something is loaded and rendered.
Oct 26 2020 02:31 PM
@dstarkowski Interesting that you can't get it to happen in InPrivate. I can, but I have to really work my machine hard since it seems to be worse when Edge is struggling, so I suspect that you can't just because the InPrivate new tab page is much easier to load than the non-InPrivate one. Our new tab page team is aware and looking into it, and also brought up that this may be related to the work we've done recently to merge our Office and News new tab pages, so I'm curious if you're signed into Edge with a work/school account or a personal one (or none).