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josh_bodner
Microsoft
Mar 16, 2021Dev channel update to 91.0.825.0 is live
Hello Insiders! Today we’re releasing build 91.0.825.0 to the Dev channel. As you can see, this is the first build from version 91, which also means that version 90 is coming to Beta this week! As such, here’s everything we’re excited to talk about this week:
- Take our survey! Once again, it's time for the quarterly survey, which can be found here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/surveys/quarterly-survey-march-2021/m-p/2197376.
- We’re moving faster! Starting later this year, our lower-level releases like Stable will be moving to a 4-week release cadence, with an optional 8-week cycle for enterprises. Read the announcement here: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2021/03/12/new-release-cycles-microsoft-edge-extended-stable/.
- For Mac users, we’re very happy to start rolling out our improved updater: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/new-update-experience-for-mac-available-in-edge-canary/m-p/2200983. For right now, this is only available in Canary as an opt-in feature, but it will eventually make its way to all Mac channels.
In product news:
Added features:
- Added the ability to read Wikipedia pages in Immersive Reader with support for their built-in Table of Contents. Note that this is still being rolled out; for more details, click here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/make-reading-wikipedia-content-easier-and-more-accessible-with/m-p/2195539.
- Finished rolling out on-demand password generation from the context menu.
- Improved Read Aloud to skip extraneous content on some webpages.
- Added a management policy to control if New Tab Page Quick Links are Enabled. Note that updates to documentation or administrative templates may not be available yet.
- Enabled the Chromium management policy to control Fetch Keepalive Duration On Shutdown.
Improved reliability:
- Fixed a crash on launch.
- Fixed a crash when searching from the context menu.
- Fixed an issue where the Browser Task Manager sometimes crashes the browser.
- Fixed an issue where Edge doesn’t launch on devices that have certain VMware software installed. For more information, see https://community.carbonblack.com/t5/Knowledge-Base/Carbon-Black-Cloud-MS-Edge-Failure-to-launch-after-89-0-774-48/ta-p/101461.
- Fixed an issue where pinning the Web Widget sometimes crashes it.
Changed behavior:
- Fixed an issue where Edge sometimes launches to a new profile if the shortcut used to launch it doesn’t specify what profile to use, causing users to think their data is gone even though it’s not.
- Fixed an issue on Linux where push notifications from websites don’t work.
- Fixed an issue where smooth scrolling doesn’t work on certain devices. Note that this fix reverts back to prior scroll behavior, which will likely regress recently fixed behavior for other users. Work in this area is ongoing to provide a flag to enable on-demand switching between old and new behavior in order to provide all users with a way to ensure correct device-agnostic scrolling behavior.
- Fixed an issue where certain permission request prompts from websites are blank or missing text.
- Fixed an issue where the button to switch to an existing tab when an address is typed in the address bar that matches the address of an existing tab sometimes doesn’t appear at certain window sizes.
- Fixed an issue where duplicate Edge shortcuts sometimes appear on the Start menu.
- Fixed an issue where PWAs or websites installed as apps that are open in one Edge channel are sometimes unexpectedly closed when another Edge channel installs an update.
- Fixed an issue where the context menu option to translate a page doesn’t do anything if the page is already translated.
- Fixed an issue where browser themes sometimes cause the window control buttons to disappear.
- Fixed an issue where the dialog for manually importing browser data sometimes doesn’t go away.
- Fixed an issue where IE mode tabs sometimes aren’t scaled or zoomed properly.
- Fixed an issue where certain websites can’t be selected when using the Pinning Wizard.
- Fixed an issue where Smart Copy sometimes doesn’t copy all selected content if some of the selected area is scrolled offscreen.
- Fixed an issue where keyboard shortcuts to switch tabs in Kiosk mode sometimes don’t work.
- Fixed an issue where the window title for the Web Widget Taskbar icon is blank.
- Fixed an issue where certain buttons in the Web Widget sometimes aren’t visible.
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 this help article 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 still seeing favorites get duplicated. This issue should be reduced now that automatic deduplication has been introduced into Insider channels, but we’re still rolling that out in Stable. 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 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.
As always, thank you for everything, we couldn’t do it without you!
- haosmosCopper Contributor
Hi, josh_bodner !
In version 91.0.831.0 (insider dev) in edge://flag the "global media controls" flag that enabled the media control panel in browser tabs is missing. This option is missing. There is only this flag: "Global Media Controls for Cast".
The regular version of edge 89.0.774.57 has this option.
- eddiezatoIron Contributor
1. Devtools -> Network -> Copy menu
2. The flags for these useful features are gone:
GlobalMediaControls
GlobalMediaControlsPictureInPicture
Personally, I can no longer use the browser without the ability to manage the media being played in tabs. So I enabled this by using command-line parameters. But I'll be glad if these features are turned on in the browser by default, or at least flags return.
UPD: In 91.0.833.0, the flags were returned 🙂
- josh_bodner
Microsoft
eddiezato what's the issue with the Dev Tools menu? Is it that it's not letting you copy anything when you think it should be?
- ahl2ndcIron ContributorI see crashing of the browser now. I'm not sure it it's related to turning on the edge-vertical-tabs-hide-titlebar flag or something else. It seem to happen when the computer has not been in use for a while and/or if the computer goes into sleep mode.
I haven't investigated it further, but I have noticed it at least 4 times now. Never happens while I'm using my computer.- josh_bodner
Microsoft
ahl2ndc just to confirm it's crashing, are there entries listed on edge://crashes?
- matsmcpSteel Contributor
And we got a new anying download icon. How do we get rid of it? Once again you make a very bad ux decission and you make the misstake mandatory for all users
- Hi,
where is the new download icon? i can't seem to find it- matsmcpSteel ContributorMight be another of those strange feature rollout things but when I download something a downlad icon pops "up" just to the left of the profile icon.
This is bad ux in a number of ways
1. The gui gets an extra icon when you start a download
2. everything else gets shifted to the left, changing the layout and causing a distraction since the eyes a drawn to motion
3. when the download is completed the download icon changes again
4. And it's another ux change instead of focusing on fixing bugs or the huge memory consumption.
We had a machine that had version 89 left so the testgroup has been reverted for now until this clears out
- Igi_PLCopper Contributor
josh_bodner
Hi, today I have notice some problems.
1) Test Management for Jira 7.1.1 - "<tr>" elements height is not correct, something with CSS computing (TC list, Cycle list). "<tr>" elements are taking all free height.
2) DevTools -> Network -> Response. This looks to me like bug with text highlights:
a) There is some kind of text auto selection with yellow color (in dark mode text is hard to read).
b) Response text is scrolled all the way right (to the end of line).- josh_bodner
Microsoft
Igi_PL for the Dev Tools issue, can you please file feedback from within the Dev Tools pane if you haven't yet? That'll get a bug created in our bug database for it.
- Igi_PLCopper Contributorjosh_bodner Done.
- mkonininIron Contributor
I like new Extensions menu
- VishnuP314Copper ContributorI can't find the roadmap. Sorry to bother everyone here, but does anybody update on when Edge on linux will have profile and sign in options?
- tomscharbachBronze Contributor
VishnuP314 "Sorry to bother everyone here, but does anybody update on when Edge on linux will have profile and sign in options?"
Gekkouga "When is the sync option coming to Linux? Why are other features given higher priorities than sync? I don't see sync in the roadmap and I am starting to doubt if it will ever make it's way to Linux."
Nobody outside Microsoft knows and nobody inside Microsoft has been talking so far.
Microsoft made this announcement on October 20: "Some end-user features and services may not yet be fully enabled. In particular, our initial release supports local accounts only, and does not support signing in to Microsoft Edge via a Microsoft Account or AAD account, or features which require signing in (such as syncing your settings, favorites, etc.). These features will be available in a future preview."
Since then, dead silence on Microsoft's part, despite repeated questions in this Community and elsewhere. Maybe yours will be the questions that actually get a response. Hope so.
- Adamtech990Brass ContributorThanks for the flag #edge-vertical-tabs-hide-titlebar. Now it looks better in vertical tabs
- Paul_VCSteel Contributor
Could we please get an official reaction from Microsoft on what your feedback is, and your plans are, regarding the implementation of the new Extensions-button? It has gotten a very high number of unfavorable reactions from the community, so a response from MSFT would be much appreciated.
- josh_bodner
Microsoft
Paul_VC this was just V1 of the extensions menu; we always planned on iterating on it like we do with everything else. In particular, we're working on incorporating all this feedback before we expand the extensions menu rollout to Beta.
- Paul_VCSteel ContributorThanks Josh, we appreciate official replies from Microsoft a lot.
- eduardobragaxzIron Contributor
josh_bodner Is there any benefit in sending a ticket saying a bug was fixed, or is the lack of complaint enough?
- josh_bodner
Microsoft
eduardobragaxz mentioning here that it's fixed is perfect!