Dev channel update to 90.0.803.0 is live

josh_bodner 

The problem with subsequent middle-clicks after the first on favourite bar drop-down menus not doing anything seems to be fixed, which is good. For me, desktop Edge of itself is now back ahead of Google Chrome and at least equal with Firefox.

Unfortunately it's not a matter of desktop Edge on its own - I need a desktop and an Android browser pair that work and sync together, and Android Edge languishes in the Chromium 77 doldrums without anything still appearing to have happened other than collections in over a year. It's completely unusable for me. For one thing, I have to have the ability to dark-mode  websites, like Android Chrome's option to have a settings-themes switch to darken websites, or - much better - Android Firefox's ability to use the Dark Reader extension. Far too many websites I go to have blinding white backgrounds, and without some darkify ability in Android Edge I just can't use it - even test it for anything else.

For another, I HATE bottom controls. And I'm not the only one. Note that Android Google Chrome for awhile had an experimental setting to have a split top and bottom bar very like Edge's. Some time ago now, Google removed it so one would presume it wasn't successful. And when the new, re-written Android Firefox was released as a preview in autumn 2019, it just had bottom controls. I wrote a review in the play store that I wouldn't be able to use it with bottom controls, and I don't think I was the only one because 3 months later an option to have bottom OR top controls appeared, well before stable release. I'd think about this, if I were you if you want Android Edge to get any significant traction.

Hm. I'd forgotten how much the Edge split top-bottom control interface is like the experimental one Google dropped in Android Chrome. That was in Android Chrome back round their version ... 77-ish. That's now got me wondering if you haven't been going on with Edge past Chromium 77 because you want to keep the split top-bottom interface but Google cut it from Android Chromium as a failed experiment in later Chromium.

You really need to pull your fingers out with Android Edge - it's dragging as an anchor behind desktop Edge, working against Edge adoption.