Dev channel update to 95.0.1011.1 is live

[josh_bodner]

Hello Insiders!  Today we’re releasing build 95.0.1011.1 to the Dev channel, and we’ve got a lot to talk about!  Last week we had a bunch of resources for extension developers, but for extension users, this week we’ve got some trending extensions you may want to check out:  https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/trending-extensions-on-microsoft-edge-add-ons/m-p/27....  Also, for anybody who’s ever hit F12 and been confounded by the complexity of what pops up, we’ve got an overview of some of the recent work we’ve done to help you make the Dev tools your own:  https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2021/09/14/edge-devtools-93-personalization/.  As for everything else that’s worth talking about this week: 

Added features: 

• Added the ability to hide the Extensions button by right-clicking it on the address bar or in the … menu. 
• Added a setting on Mac to hide the Picture in Picture overlay controls. 
• Completed feature rollouts:
  • Enabled by default improvements to Windows Task Manager when running on Windows 11. 
  • Enabled by default the ability to autofill custom data. 
• Mobile: 
  • Added support for natural voices to Read Aloud on Android. 
  • Enabled the Surf game on Android. 
• Management policies (note that updates to administrative templates or documentation may not have occurred yet): 
  • Added policies to set an Internet Explorer Integration Window Open Width Adjustment and Internet Explorer Integration Window Open Height Adjustment, which add extra pixels to the size of popup windows opened from IE mode tabs. 
  • Added a policy to control if Visual Search is Enabled, which controls reverse image search.
  • Added a policy to control Shadow Stack Crash Rollback Behavior, which controls if the hardware-enforced stack protection security feature in certain devices should be enabled following a crash that’s triggered by it. 
  • Enabled support for the policy from Chromium to control if Browser Legacy Extension Points Blocking is Enabled, which controls if legacy extensions are allowed to load code into the browser’s main process for compatibility with other applications. 
• Developer: 
  • Added support for the No Frame Merging in IE mode tabs.
  • Added support for the navigator.share API in PWAs on Mac OS. 

Improved reliability: 

• Fixed a crash on launch. 
• Fixed a crash on startup when certain extensions are installed. 
• Fixed a crash when switching profiles. 
• Fixed a crash when changing languages in Settings. 
• Fixed a crash when logging into a website. 
• Fixed a crash when using Smart Copy. 
• Fixed a crash when using Application Guard. 
• Fixed an issue where tabs sometimes crash with a breakpoint error. 
• Fixed a crash when closing PWAs or websites installed as apps. 
• Fixed a crash when using Overlay Scrollbars. 
• Fixed a crash when saving autofill info via a popup. 
• Fixed an issue where the browser is blank and unusable when opened on a non-default desktop. 
• Mobile: 
  • Fixed an issue where the browser won’t open.
  • Fixed a crash when signing into the browser. 
  • Fixed a crash when closing tabs. 
  • Fixed a crash when adding a favorite. 
  • Fixed a crash when using the SwiftKey keyboard.  
  • Fixed a crash when typing in the address bar. 
  • Fixed a crash when using Guided Switch in InPrivate mode. 
  • Fixed a crash when using Citrix. 

Changed behavior: 

• Reduced the number of one-time validation fields that autofill tries to fill with previous results.
• Fixed an issue where autocomplete doesn’t work in places it should. 
• Fixed an issue where certain videos don’t play in HD/4K when they should. 
• Fixed an issue where navigations sometimes never complete when using Family Safety. 
• Fixed an issue where the Read Aloud controls sometimes don’t work. 
• Fixed an issue on Linux where the Collections pane sometimes can’t be opened. 
• Fixed an issue where Collections are sorted incorrectly. 
• Fixed an issue where the button to close a tab sometimes isn’t visible when the Vertical Tabs pane is too narrow. 
• Fixed an issue where spellcheck sometimes triggers even when it’s disabled. 
• Fixed an issue where Smart Copy copies more than just what’s selected. 
• Fixed an issue where debug.log files sometimes mysteriously appear on the device. 
• Fixed an issue where the different headers of the History menu don’t show the correct sections when clicked. 
• Mobile: 
  • Fixed an issue where SSO no longer works. 
  • Fixed an issue where signing into the browser sometimes doesn’t enable sync as well. 
  • Fixed an issue where the browser can be signed into with the same account multiple times. 
  • Fixed an issue on iOS where signing into the browser fails. 
  • Fixed an issue where a sign-in error is shown in Settings even though there is no error. 
  • Fixed an issue on Android where autofill sometimes fails. 
  • Fixed an issue where images sometimes don’t render properly. 
  • Fixed an issue on iOS where certain webpage resources sometimes don’t load. 
  • Fixed an issue on iOS where certain popups will close as soon as they’re opened. 
  • Fixed an issue where links that open in new tabs sometimes close or navigate back as soon as they’re opened. 
• Fixed an issue in WebView2 apps where flickering appears (Issue 1621). 
• Fixed an issue where popups opened from IE mode tabs are sometimes scaled incorrectly. 
• Obsoleted the management policy to control if Legacy Same Site Cookie Behavior is Enabled. 

Known issues: 

• 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, we couldn’t do this without all your fantastic feedback!

[#2]

@josh_bodnerNice selection of bug fixes as usual, and some great new features. But what's up with the huge text size in my Favourites the last few weeks? I was hoping that would have been fixed today.

See these examples. The text size of the folders in the drop down is bigger than those on the Favourites bar, and the text size of items in the folders is also bigger than the folder names.

   

I also left some feedback a while ago to be able to be able to Sort a Favourites folder by right clicking on it, and also if I move a Favourite's position inside a folder, the folder closes. That's quite annoying if I want to move several items, it should stay open so long as my mouse is there.

[#3]

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• Added the ability to hide the Extensions button by right-clicking it on the address bar or in the … menu. 

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Was this missing? I thought this meant we could now hide the extensions button and the extensions themselves, but I guess not.

[#4]

There is still no option to hide both the extension button AND some of the extensions from the toolbar

[#5]

You added the ability to hide the Extensions button from the Toolbar.... which forces all the extensions that I hid to reappear? Seriously?!? The extensions I hid should stay hidden!

[#6]

Agreed - was hoping we'd be able to hide both the extensions button and all the extensions from the toolbar

[#7]

Wasn't hiding the Extension button already possible earlier, and it was just missing in a few recent versions, and back then it worked just like now - resulted in showing all extension buttons? In any case, hiding the extension button while it brings all the extensions visible makes no sense. Please allow hiding both extension button and selected extensions. That is the way.

[#8]

Edge 94 was released to beta on desktop almost two weeks ago, while on Android it's still stuck on 93. Meanwhile, the dev channel does get regular updates on Android. What's going on at the beta channel on Android?

[#9]

Third update, and still no answer:

Still have the problem with the cursor always going to the search box on YouTube.

If I refresh the YouTube home page, and perhaps click away to another tab, then come back to it, the cursor is in the search box and the drop down of my searches is in focus.

[#10]

When will you fix the appearance of keyboard control when working with the mouse when calling up various menus?

[#11]

@josh_bodner 

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@josh_bodner wrote:

• Added the ability to hide the Extensions button by right-clicking it on the address bar or in the … menu. 

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You still cannot hide individual extensions and the extensions button. This is what people (including me) are asking for for months at this point.

[#12]

This update broke the Space Jam theme and I have now lost it forever because I reverted to a built-in theme hoping to get Space Jam to work again after reinstalling it but it is no longer available in the Add-on store. Should've backed it up. Edit: Got the theme folder from one of my other laptops since Edge on it as well has the Space Jam theme installed.

At least the address bar's Korean IME input mode amnesia seems to have finally been cured (and hopefully doesn't recur).

[#13]

The bigger font size is by design. It's part of our work to refresh the visuals for Windows 11, and you'll see that it now matches the size in other menus like the right-click menu. As far as sorting your folders, if you do that from other places like the Favorites menu or page, you won't need to worry about the popups closing.

[#14]

@eduardobragaxz this was just about bringing parity with the other toolbar buttons like favorites and history, which let you hide them by right-clicking them, but don't worry, we're still working on letting you hide both!  

[#15]

@adrianghc We're in the process of (finally) rolling out 93 to Stable on Android, and we want to keep 93 in Beta until that's done just in case we find some bugs during the rollout and need a place to test some fixes before continuing with the rollout.  

[#16]

@Mapantz typically we don't have any control over what happens in a webpage.  If it wants to set focus somewhere, it can set focus anywhere it wants.  Any HTML element can take focus just by calling its focus function.  In fact, most webpages with search boxes tend to set focus there since searching for content is the number one thing people do on them.  Also, is it possible this is being done by an extension you have installed?  

[#17]

Live Instagram streams cannot play and have been broken for at least a month. Any ETA on this?

[#18]

That's very nice to hear :D

[#19]

Alright, thanks for the clarification!

[#20]

Does anyone know how to switch the Edge update channel from stable to Dev? Edge Stable is built into Windows 11.