Dev channel update to 88.0.702.0 is live

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Hello Insiders!  Today we’re releasing build 88.0.702.0 to the Dev channel.  It’s a big one, so we’ve got a lot to talk about: 

 

 

As for all the good stuff in this build: 

 

Added features: 

 

  • Added the ability to add text notes to PDFs.  Note that support is limited to Windows for now.  For more details, see https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/pdf-note-taking-enhanced-with-support-for-text-comme...
  • Added the ability for Edge to proactively find and show coupons while shopping.  Note that this feature is not available for work and school accounts. 
  • Rolled out support for automatic deduplication of favorites more broadly.  Now, deduplication will occur every time favorites are synced to the device. 
  • Added the ability to take a screenshot of the entire webpage using Web Capture. 
  • Added settings to the Pinning Wizard to generate more default suggestions. 
  • Added support in the IE mode sitelist to be able to specify schemes (http/https) alongside the host and path. 
  • Added new management policies to configure whether or not Sleeping Tabs are Enabled, to configure the Timeout until they go to sleep, and to configure the list of URLs that are Blocked from going to sleep.  Note that updates to administrative templates or documentation may not be available yet. 
  • Enabled support for the management policy to Block External Extensions from Chromium. 
  • Updated icons across Edge to be more consistent with the Fluent design scheme. 

 

Improved reliability: 

 

  • Fixed an issue where adding a favorite directly from the Favorites management page sometimes crashes the browser. 
  • Fixed an issue where Edge’s first startup after rebooting a device sometimes hangs. 
  • Fixed an issue where using the Favorites menu sometimes crashes the browser. 
  • Fixed a crash when closing the browser. 
  • Fixed an issue where PDFs sometimes crash. 
  • Fixed a crash when closing a PDF. 
  • Fixed a crash when printing a PDF. 
  • Fixed a crash when closing popups. 
  • Fixed a crash when shutting down the browser. 
  • Fixed an issue where signing into a browser profile that has previously been signed out of will sometimes crash the browser. 
  • Fixed an issue where the F6 key sometimes crashes the browser. 
  • Fixed a crash when closing the Sleeping Tabs awareness dialog. 
  • Fixed a crash when opening a PDF that will end up in an Application Guard window. 
  • Fixed an issue where websites installed as apps sometimes won’t launch on Windows Server or other Windows accounts that elevate everything by default. 
  • Fixed an issue where pages sometimes crash on load. 
  • Fixed a crash when navigating to websites. 
  • Fixed a hang during browser shutdown. 

 

Changed behavior: 

 

  • Fixed an issue where installing a website as an application sometimes fails if the site has already been pinned to the Taskbar. 
  • Fixed an issue where pinning Edge to the Taskbar sometimes results in a second copy of Edge on the Taskbar. 
  • Fixed an issue where the feedback dialog doesn’t appear. 
  • Fixed an issue where adding a site to the “Do not clear” list in the setting to clear cookies and other site data when the browser is closed sometimes fails. 
  • Fixed an issue where dragging and dropping favorites to rearrange them from the Favorites menu sometimes results in the favorites being dropped in a different place than shown or intended. 
  • Fixed an issue where the indicator that a tab is playing audio sometimes doesn’t appear for certain types of media. 
  • Fixed an issue where sorting or filtering cookies on the Cookies management page sometimes fails. 
  • Fixed an issue where closing a Web Capture too quickly after copying it sometimes results in the copy failing. 
  • Fixed an issue where Guided Switch sometimes opens the wrong page when links are redirected from personal profiles to work/school profiles. 
  • Fixed an issue where navigations that are redirected to full IE leave behind a blank tab in Edge. 
  • Fixed an issue where the management policy to set the Printing Paper Size Default doesn’t work. 
  • Fixed an issue where the Information Protection icon sometimes appears in the address bar when it shouldn’t. 
  • Fixed an issue where certain UI text isn’t visible when using custom themes. 
  • Deprecated the management policy to enable Proactive Auth. 
  • Temporarily removed the ability to pin a website installed as an app to the desktop or Start Menu from edge://apps.  Note that generic websites can still be pinned to the Taskbar and Start Menu from … > More tools. 

 

Known issues: 

 

  • Certain extensions such as the Microsoft Editor extension don’t work on Linux.  As soon as they’re installed, they crash and are disabled.  We’re currently investigating. 
  • 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. 
  • Some users are still running into an issue where all tabs and extensions immediately crash with a STATUS_INVALID_IMAGE_HASH error.  The most common cause of this error is outdated security or antivirus software from vendors like Symantec, and in those cases, updating that software will fix it. 
  • 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. 

 

Next week is the Thanksgiving holiday for us in the United States, which means that there will be no major Dev update, no intended minor Dev, Beta, or Stable updates, and Canary will only be updated on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.  We’ll be back to normal the week after! 

 

53 Replies

@josh_bodner 

1.Why not have an option to open the Collections in a new tab? It will be beneficial to organise contents and surf through large collection folders.

2.Pasting web captures into collection folders.

@sid9-3 


@sid9-3 wrote:

@josh_bodner 

2.Pasting web captures into collection folders.


Great suggestion, sent feedback using feedback button on Edge few days ago about this, because it feels right to have this feature and helps to keep things organized.

please you also send feedback for this. to give it higher priority

@Dad2JTK 


@Dad2JTK wrote:

@HotCakeX   You know i been wondering this a long time,  What the hell is the default setting when you are giving options and None of them say,  "enabled equals-default", disabled equals not default"  sure would help many folks out if these options were explained a bit more in the settings. 


you're absolutely right, saying "default" without specifying what default is it's stupid. this is coming from Chrome but Edge should fix this.

they just need to see more people sending feedback through Edge browser about this issue, once they see many people want it they will do something about it

Ok, I'm hoping this make sense.

I've kinda always looked at this as meaning default=whatever your system or browser is set at.

like the sit permissions/Media autoplay the flag is default=not to show the block option. Enable this flag and the Block option shows as a selection.

Vertical tabs flag default=show vert tabs. At least it is for me as I do not need to enable this flag, but for some that do not have vert tabs showing, then the default for them would be default=do not show vert tabs. They would have to enable vert tabs to show.

And so on for all the flags. You just have to dig a little and findout what "your" system/browser is set to... that will equal your default settings...

Dennis5mile

@Dennis5mile 

unfortunately not every flag modifies something in Edge settings, most of them are hard to notice, lots of them you don't even know where or what to look for as a change.

 

@HotCakeX And I don't monitor flags each time I update Edge.
That's okay, you don't really need to
I have sent the feedback already.
Thank you!

@josh_bodner 

Any news on the frame dropping issues with YouTube videos?

 

I came across this in a search:

 

Edge Chromium dropping frames on YouTube videos - Microsoft Tech Community

 

With the Canary/Dev and official release all suffering the same problem, I'm going to have to resort to using another browser.

I watch a lot of YouTube content and this is driving me absolutely bonkers!

@mabster it looks like it will be in this week's update as well since this kind of got lost over the holidays.  We'll make sure it doesn't make its way to Beta though!  

@Dad2JTK The biggest problem with "default" is that the value of any given flag could be changed by an experiment at any given time (although most flags actually aren't experimented with), but they usually start out as disabled since flags are primarily a way to just keep code turned off until we're sure it's ready, so instead of "default", I think of it as "probably disabled".  There are, of course, exceptions, like the the edge://flags/#edge-experimental-scrolling, which is on by default but we keep the flag around since we continue to use it for new scrolling features, and flags that are more than just binary enabled/disabled.  I definitely agree that it would be nice to be able to peek behind the default though and know whether something is actually enabled or not, so for anybody else who hasn't filed feedback that they would like us to add that functionality, please do so we can properly prioritize it!  

@Mapantz At this point, any info that we'd need from you is probably too sensitive to send here, so I'd recommend opening a support ticket at https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/support/request so our agents can get that info from you.  

We are seeing this behavior since rollout of Webview2 update 92.0.902.55 into the stable channnel.
We get this error when redirecting to an IDP where the IDP is expecting a client certificate.