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RichLusk
Iron Contributor
Apr 01, 2020
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Edge Reader Mode says the browser is Chrome

Has anyone else noticed that when a webpage is in reader mode and you click the button "Reader Mode" on the left side of the address bar next to the reload button it says "Chrome simplified this page...
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    johnjansen
    Apr 02, 2020

    Thanks for submitting feedback via Edge itself. We read all of those. I was about to log a bug on this because you're right! It's not good :-). But since you submitted feedback, I don't need to do that.

     

    We have quite a number of tools that try to verify all of the strings in the product are correct. It's not at all clear to me how we missed this one. Which means, we probably missed more. If you see "Chrome" anywhere else, please submit additional feedback. 

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johnjansen
Former Employee
Apr 02, 2020

Thanks for submitting feedback via Edge itself. We read all of those. I was about to log a bug on this because you're right! It's not good :-). But since you submitted feedback, I don't need to do that.

 

We have quite a number of tools that try to verify all of the strings in the product are correct. It's not at all clear to me how we missed this one. Which means, we probably missed more. If you see "Chrome" anywhere else, please submit additional feedback. 

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RichLusk
Iron Contributor
Apr 02, 2020

Thank you johnjansen for the direct reply. I really appreciate all the hard work that is going into making the new Edge a huge success! You are all doing great!!

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