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Ink Support, Web notes and Sharing on Chromium Edge
I was able to use my Surface pen to annotate webpages, pdf files, etc. on Microsoft Edge
Please bring the functionality on Chromium Edge as well.
Also, the sharing with OneNote, Nearby Sharing, and with other apps is also missing in the new Chromium Edge.
However, please keep it unique to Chromium Edge only.
Cortana, Ink annotation, Sharing options, etc. are what keeping Edge unique from others.
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soumitra2102Wow, agree completely! Until inking works like Classic Edge I will not be happy!
Right now I get nothing at all when I click on a text box. NOTHING.
- From the 3 subject that OP mentioned: "Ink Support, Web notes and Sharing"
2 of them are already available, only 1 is missing and it's Web notes or web inking.
anywhere there are separate discussions about each one
https://aka.ms/MSEdgeTopFeedback- Nope, when I tap a text box there is no way for me to enter text. I went back to old Edge so I could write this answer with my pen.
Ink support, Cortana help on context, Automatic lyrics pop-up on playing a song, able to annotate pdfs, etc. are the features why I'm still sticking to the old Microsoft Edge.
Hope to see these features exclusive to New Microsoft (Chromium) Edge.
soumitra_tamuk365 What if this Cortana was a fully integrated thing, Like Siri/Google Assistant specifically for the Edge Chromium browser, now that would be cool. (Especially if an Easter Egg lets you make it look like it is Clippy or a Blibbet)
konthuruthyj05 I meant if they made a Cortana for Edge Chromium (it would make it stand out from the crowd)
- 😅 didn't realized I already had comment here ling time ago.
I am not a troll 😋
soumitra2102 I'm surprise to not see this thread having more comments. To me, this is of utmost important for pro user. This is the things that you'd think should always be there, and then you forgot about it, then one day it's gone and you realize how much you miss using it.
Please escalate this and prioritize this.
- Oh they are prioritizing it, just recently added to the list
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Top-feedback-summary-for-November-4/td-p/978022
Add the ability to ink on web pages [under review for 1 week]
Inking for PDF files [added and it's being worked on, you can try it in Edge canary channel]I hope we get the ink support, I absolutely use the PDF annotations and OneNote integration all the time - it's the primary use of my SP4. Looking forward to seeing it in Edge Chromium - the OneNote integration now is OK but all it is is bookmarks and screenshots.
soumitra2102 Totaly agree to web inc did use the Edge edgehtml for only inc before, its was so nice when i need to send some print screen frome a webpages just take printscreen and automatic inc and send it away direclty to a co-worker. That is relly something am missing on the chromium.
- I want web notes too, very important feature
We appreciate your feedback, and these features are being seriously considered.
Thanks again for your feedback, and feature request,
Frank
V-FRROME any news on the web notes release for the new Edge? Thanks!
V-FRROME After 27 years on various models of Thinkpad, I found Surface Laptop 3 at a local store two days ago and made the leap which I thought would never happen. It's been a long time since I bought anything related to PC the day I found it. That day, I used Edge for the first time, and found out about the add notes function, which would've been just perfect for my work.. I'd been pasting cropped images onto PowerPoint, which is just unbelievably analogue. And then, as I was running updates for Windows and Office, I had no idea that this functionality is gone in the latest Chromium-based version of Edge, and now the pre-installed Edge is gone.. What a disappointment, I was really looking forward to try out the touch display which seems to work pretty well on Laptop 3.
- So you received the new Edge (version 79) automatically from Windows update?
could you mention which Windows 10 version were you using?
also you can uninstall it from control panel or Settings app, restart your device and you should be able to use the legacy Edge again.
then use blocker toolkit to prevent further installation retries
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-au/deployedge/microsoft-edge-blocker-toolkit
drcza soumitra2102 HotCakeX universalnettwork Robin Nilsson
I wish we did have time frames or dates for feature requests.
The great thing is that these feature requests are getting sent in and getting attention.
The engineering team is working hard to get them out as soon as they can, but have to make sure they don't effect any other features or cause crashing, and are as functional as possible.
Thanks everyone for your feature request and please keep sending them in.
Frank
