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josh_bodner
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MicrosoftDev channel update to 90.0.782.0 is live
Hello Insiders! Today we’re releasing build 90.0.782.0 to the Dev channel. As you can see, this is the first build of major version 90 to land in Dev, and with it comes some exciting new features.
- First, we’ve made a major update to the What’s Next page on the Insider website: it now contains a feature roadmap for all browser features! This is similar to our existing Enterprise roadmap, and you can read more about it here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/new-feature-roadmap-now-up-on-the-what-s-next-page-of-the/m-p/2107761.
- Next, as some of you have already seen, we’ve been rolling out a new Downloads experience that mirrors the improvements we’ve made to the Favorites and History menus. Today, we’ve bumped up that rollout so that everybody should see it soon! More details are here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/introducing-the-new-downloads-experience/m-p/2111551.
- Finally, right alongside Downloads, we’re also finishing the rollout of a new popup menu for Collections as well! Those details are here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/introducing-improvements-to-the-collections-experience/m-p/2111553.
As for everything else:
Added features:
- Improved on smoothness and latency when inking PDFs. For more details, click here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/inking-experience-improvements-in-edge/m-p/2098598.
- Added the Collections item to the … menu in InPrivate windows since Collections are now supported in InPrivate.
- Improved the Cookies In Use dialog to show more information about a given cookie.
- Added a management policy to manage the Smart Actions Block List, which prevents certain context menu actions from being available, and for Windows Hello For HTTP Auth Enabled to control whether or not the basic credential prompt appears for NTLM or Negotiate. Note that updates to administrative templates or documentation may not be available yet.
- Enabled support for the management policy from Chromium to configure the Managed Configuration Per Origin for websites installed as apps.
Improved reliability:
- Fixed an issue where multiple EdgeUpdate processes may be seen running at the same time in Windows Task Manager.
- Fixed a crash when copying a URL from the address bar.
- Fixed a crash when opening a new tab.
- Fixed a crash when using the new Favorites or History popup.
- Fixed a crash when using Find On Page.
- Fixed a crash when using speech recognition.
- Fixed a crash when sharing a Collection.
- Fixed a crash when using search engine shortcuts to search for something from the address bar.
- Fixed an issue where certain popups from IE mode tabs can become hidden, blocking all interaction with the window.
- Fixed an issue where opening Edge via certain shortcuts causes manual updates to fail.
Changed behavior:
- Fixed an issue where setting Autoplay settings to Block causes Read Aloud online voices to fail.
- Fixed an issue where newly-opened tabs are blank.
- Fixed an issue where certain trackpads cause scrolling to happen too fast.
- Disabled ShyUI in PWAs and websites installed as apps.
- Fixed an issue where opening a PWA or website installed as an app sometimes results in two windows being opened: the regular app window but with no content, and a generic browser popup window with the content.
- Fixed an issue where switching profiles in a PWA sometimes fails.
- Fixed an issue where the Favorites or History menus sometimes appear in the wrong place on screen.
- Fixed an issue where searching for a Setting sometimes doesn’t work.
- Fixed an issue where there are sometimes duplicate Edge shortcuts on the Taskbar.
- Fixed an issue where Immersive Reader shows up as eligible on certain websites it shouldn’t.
- Fixed an issue where certain websites installed as apps have too big of an icon when their tile is pinned to the Start menu.
- Fixed an issue where websites installed as apps are missing the … icon on their … menu button.
- Fixed an issue where the save button when editing a Collection item is invisible.
- Obsoleted the management policy for Stricter Mixed Content Treatment Enabled. Note that this policy hasn’t been functional since version 85.
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. This issue should be reduced now that automatic deduplication has been introduced into Insider channels. However, we’ve also seen duplication happen when running the manual deduplicator on multiple machines before either machine has a chance to fully sync its changes, so while we wait for the automatic deduplication to make it to Stable, make sure to leave plenty of time in between runs of the deduplicator.
- 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.
In addition to Dev, we’re also releasing version 89 to Beta this week, so be on the lookout for that if you’re also a Beta user!
josh_bodner The new "Cookie in use" dialog is a step back in my opinion. We use the dialog mostly to clear selected cookies. Previously the focus was set to the next cookie when one was deleted, now we first have to select the next cookie before we can delete it. So if we have three cookies in a row that can be deleted, we have to click six times (select cookie, click delete, repeat). Previously, we only had to click the first cookie and then click delete three times.
Please improve the dialog so that the previous behavior is restored.
- Ok, I'm fine with the new features additions for the history menu and downloads and what have you, but please make it optional.
In my use case when I go to the history tab I am generally doing a deep dive into the things I searched for months in the past, so the pop up adding several extra clicks really is a bummer.
The download widget is also abominable. I use an old laptop as an HTPC. Yeah, interacting with that thing is actually impossible from across the room. I use mouse without borders to interact with it, so sitting at my desk where the only keyboard is and trying to click the infinitely small widget text is a nightmare. Please allow for this to be configured in settings. All I ask.- Spoiler
Ebsolas wrote:
Ok, I'm fine with the new features additions for the history menu and downloads and what have you, but please make it optional.
In my use case when I go to the history tab I am generally doing a deep dive into the things I searched for months in the past, so the pop up adding several extra clicks really is a bummer.
The download widget is also abominable. I use an old laptop as an HTPC. Yeah, interacting with that thing is actually impossible from across the room. I use mouse without borders to interact with it, so sitting at my desk where the only keyboard is and trying to click the infinitely small widget text is a nightmare. Please allow for this to be configured in settings. All I ask.Hi,
I'd advise using Remote Desktop instead,
Remote Desktop properly sets the correct scaling for the display you are using. it has client for all devices. I use Remote desktop on my 5inch smart phone to control my Windows 10, and i never have any problem with these flyouts because everything is scaled properly to my 5 inch mobile display.
you can add many computers, either in home network or from the Internet, to your Remote Desktop client and control all of them with the same mouse + keyboard.
also supports seamless file transfer, microphone/speaker pass-through and more.
about search in history and having extra clicks, you don't have to go to here all the time:
edge://history/all
you want to use search? the flyout has the same search. you get the same results. there is also a Pin option where you can Pin all the flyouts to have a bigger area.
- I have several remote desktop apps I use. However, using them for my tv computer doesn't work in my use case (I'm not going to hash out the reasons why, but I've tried this in the past and it doesn't work for me) and doesn't make clicking the history widget any easier.
And yes, I do always need to go to the edge://history/all I have trouble reading the new history widget. It's cramped and overwhelming and I find it unusable when trying to find past pages, even if it's something I had open today. Even on my desktop computer it feels claustrophobic and makes me feel anxious whenever it is opened. Pinned or not.
josh_bodner When I send any link to the Collections from the context menu the browser start crash and shut down automatically
Hi,
what developers said about crashes is that the best way to report them is to go to edge://crashes/
find the related/correct crash item (you can tell it by reading the time when it happened), press submit feedback next to it, in the new window briefly explain what you were doing when that crash happened and what URL you were on, and then end it.
I have the latest DEV Channel along with the same old problem; Googles news opens but the news stories are all Blank this is true in all versions of Edge. Also when going to a CNN story and playing a video there is sound but no picture. Has been going on and off for several upgrades. I say that it was a Windows problem except all is good using Chrome?
Bob
- Spoiler
BobnG wrote:I have the latest DEV Channel along with the same old problem; Googles news opens but the news stories are all Blank this is true in all versions of Edge. Also when going to a CNN story and playing a video there is sound but no picture. Has been going on and off for several upgrades. I say that it was a Windows problem except all is good using Chrome?
Bob
judging from the screenshot, it looks like you're using an extension that changes the appearance of that page, can you check and disable them all temporarily see it changes anything? edge://extensions/
also are you using any flags?
- I still didn't get history/open tabs sync. I'm edge dev 90, but can't see my mobile stuff there. On my phone, open tabs and history sync are greyed out so I can't enable. Already submitted feedback on the phone, but nothing still...
josh_bodner
I really dislike the new download manager.
I used to just drag my downloaded files into the application and now I have to open the folder.
For example, working with Photoshop I used to download an image, then from the bottom download bar just drag and drop in photoshop and done.
Now I have to a) open the download folder and look for my file or
b) use a dialog within Photoshop to open a file explorer to then go to my downloads folder and then look for my file.
I like the aesthetics but if I can't drag and drop the files, it's useless for me.
Can you please bring back the old download bar with a flag or something or at least return the drag and drop functionality to the download panel?josh_bodner Google meet will no longer detect a camera mic or speakers. I know Meet doesn't officially support edge, so I don't know where the problem lies. Google Meet does work fine when using a different browser, with no changes to hardware configuration or settings.
- josh_bodner
Red_namalas Is it possible that this is just a permissions issue, like that the site no longer has permission to use your camera/mic? Or have you tried spoofing your UA string to make Meet think you're using Chrome? (To do that, use the Network Conditions tool in the F12 Dev tools).
Red_namalas wrote:josh_bodner Google meet will no longer detect a camera mic or speakers. I know Meet doesn't officially support edge, so I don't know where the problem lies. Google Meet does work fine when using a different browser, with no changes to hardware configuration or settings.
Google meet does officially support Edge
https://support.google.com/meet/answer/7317473?hl=en#zippy=%2Cuse-a-supported-web-browser
josh_bodner
Hi, this has been happening for a while now, every time I get an update Edge opens the "We've updated you to the latest build." page but when I check to see the new features I can't find them.
for example, I still don't have the Smart copy feature, the new downloads menu, or the Web widget which came with the latest update.Thank you! josh_bodner
I am especially excited to see the improved speech recognition. The text to speech is already much better than Google Chrome, and now the speech recognition seems to work even better as well in English. I am waiting on other languages for speech recognition. I did test English and Spanish, but Chinese doesn't seem to work yet. I am sure it will come.
Thank you for your awesome work!
josh_bodner Credit where due pop up blocks are now resolved for D365 yey! this makes me so happy, I have put so much time into this browser keep up the good work please pass on the thanks 🙂
