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Edge favorites menu
- This is great feedback. Are you looking for a way to access your favorites and history withough having to open a new tab?
MicrosoftElliot Kirk One of the things that I dislike most about Chrome is the inablilty to open and pin my favorites list to the right-hand side of the browser, just like you can in IE and now Edge. Open your favorites once and it is always at hand. No extra clicks to open a new tab, no extra clicks to open a folder from the favorites bar.
- I would also like to have the pin to the right functionality added please.
- Elliot KirkI totally understand that stedsch. I use that all the time myself. I will make sure that your feedback is heard by the owners of history / favorites.
ElliotElliot Kirk Everyone in this thread seems in favor of this idea, but I mentioned in another thread that I didn't love how cramped it felt. Since this seems to be a popular request I'd like to share some additional thoughts.
Maybe if the sidebar's size could be adjustable it would feel less cramped. Also in Edge Stable the sidebar is used for a lot of things including settings and extensions (although those are not a part of the sidebar interface used for Favorites/Reading list/Books/History/Downloads, but rather they were their own individually separated sidebars). Edge Stable felt like it had less in terms of settings where Edge Canary as of writing today feels like it has many more options (which is great by the way!) and I feel like trying to cram that many options into a small sidebar, especially if it can't be resized or popped out into a full size tab/window would feel really clostrophobic.
I like that in Edge Stable the sidebar can be pinned, but without being able to resize it or pop it out to a full size tab/window the sidebar in Edge Stable wasn't pleasant for me personally. Hopefully since the sidebar interface seems so desired it can be improved on if it is implemented into the new Chromium based Edge!
The fluidity of this in Edge should be ported to new edge. The icon should also be in the taskbar but not as a fav icon having 2 is confusing make it a control pannel icon or something.
Elliot KirkWe definitely need the favorites system from the old Edge with the menu next to the address bar and the really nice larger font/graphics on the pull down menu. The way Chrome handles bookmarks is atrocious and it's one of the top reasons I don't use Chrome. This is a nice way to differentiate yourselves from Chrome, otherwise you are going to have a lot of users ask themselves why bother with the new Edge if they can just use Chrome.
Yes please, can't understand how people live with how Chrome handles bookmarks.
Look at Firefox for example and add something similar. (Added screenshot)
Also please don't add too many buttons to the UI unless we can customize everything like in Firefox. Already tired of the profile and feedback button in the top right corner. Buttons you rarely ever use and they just clutter the interface. Could easily be added to the hamburger menu.
ppoppppe This is similar to the Edge Insider Builds where you have to click on the menu then it opens in a new tab.
It would be fantastic if Favorites can be accessed just like in Edge (orginal). That ensures a clean design, no clutter. I do not use a Favorites bar and I don't like the Menu tree in Chrome either.
Elliot Kirk Yes please, I want to go to one of my other favorites without having to open a new tab (just like it was possible in "old" Edge).
Ries van Moorselaar Elliot Kirk
Elliot, here in this thread is more, again, speaking to wanting things that are part of (current) Edge... its toolbar icons, and Favs handling that make it special & cause people to like it & use it. Set aside, Add notes, Favs et al, Share. AND ellipsis things opening as fly-out panels NOT, changing to another page. We are given to understand all this IS going to be in Edge C. Point is, it is easy to see, from threads likes this, the large number of Users who VERY much want these Edge things to continue to be Edge things. We keep reminding Folks we are in early stages. But, it is understandable they can be 'nervous' when they are not seeing these items that they feel are absolute parts of Edge. It must be given attention & respect that there is a liking, a preference for (current) Edge style & approaches to things. There are Edge Features, that concern people when they seem to left by the wayside. Stuff not even listed under "Coming soon", makes the concern understandable, also, in regard to this (same) bunch of stuff being mentioned & addressed, again, in yet another thread. Can improve the under the cover guts, but, having Folks without things they like, use & want is not/would not be an improvement the majority want.
Theses things may well be coming, still, the re-occurring similar comments & sentiments are not surprising (until they are seen). And it clearly shows MANY are VERY passionate about having what has come to be viewed as "Edge things"... not Edge without them... not the Edge people know, like & want to have consistency of Features & Functionality as we transition to a new version. As long as this is taken seriously by the Team, Folks should end up with an appealing, exciting product.
Cheers,
DrewI fully agree.
Without those buttons - it's just a chrome lookalike
With them - A better browser that combines a rich pluggin store with the quality of the classic Edge Gui.
Right now I have two things that blocks a switch from classic edge.
* The favorites button
* The ability to block webpages (Youtube) from hijacking the right click menu. For this I have found a dirty workaround - sending IE agent string
- Does the Microsoft taf read this topic ?
Since the time this "feature" is requested :)
to be specific and clarify, the current Edge method is faster and a nicer method -- a better UX. It also makes sorting faster. Win-Win. But it requires that toolbar icon (#1 in the attached image ). Also, note that the "Favorites Bar" is a folder in Favorites and not expanded by default.
Cyber4
Yes, absolutely. The Favorites button there now in Edge C is like a sign on a door to an empty room... oh, except for one little, part of a shelf ,way over in the corner. There MUST be further development coming, one would hope!
Cheers,
Drew- They must be planning to make something like the current Edge which has sort of a Hub for favorites, downloads, reading list etc
- I got lost in trying to find the responses to my posts, so I guess I'll try to say it again as best I can.
I manage new employee onboarding for a global energy company with North American HQ in Houston. Part of that process includes assigning a laptop with his/her team or project bookmarks already loaded. That means we have to have multiple custom bookmark files to distribute companywide. The previous IE-11 system of using a separate folder in the My Documents folder was how we handle it. But if the NEW Edge is only handling Favorites in the Chrome manner within an internal database, then I fear many hundreds of thousands of employees sitting in many corporations will be frustrated. Having to handle bookmarks ONLY within the browser inhibits the way big companies need to move data. We are simply asking for a folder within the My Documents folder that we can collect, change, manage, and move bookmarks like IE-11 used to. Many of our employees have told us if that is not available then they will continue to use IE-11. We don't want that for security reasons, but we are pushing this to you because that's what employs and managers want. The Chrome system works fine for home users with a small number of bookmarks, but not when you need pre collected bookmarks unique to the various work groups, teams and projects. Thanks for the consideration.With Canary :
With IE/Edge :
I understand that Edge Chromium is based on Chromium, but nothing prevents to improve it (and not just have a browser that looks like 99% to Google Chrome)
- Every change is not necessarily an improvement though
- Maybe, not the case, but, I am going to suggest the following. Certainly, I do know of the Favorites folder in My Docs. Possibly, that will, actually, tie to our Edge C Favorites once and when Edge C is, indeed and in fact, an integrated part of the OS; as Edge is, now.
Cheers,
Drew
Sent from Windows Phone- Windows insider 20H1 build 18980
i can confirm there no such folder exists there.
Internet explorer is hidden and not usable, most of its executables are omitted.
that's very unlikely for MSFT to let go the modern database and return to the folder based favorites. if they were planning that they would apply it in the next upcoming Windows build
Elliot Kirk
Theis supposed tomust include Reading List (& more) not, merely show a list of Favs. Makes it so Users can have & do things like THIS.
Cheers,
Drew
