Jul 23 2020 01:15 PM
I'm sure the Edge team has heard this one but I think it's a high priority because it's honestly tempting me to switch to Firefox: on Windows at least, text is too 'faint' compared to Firefox and legacy Edge. In Firefox, text appears darker and even having slightly more weight, it's very good. The old Edge was very similar to Firefox (at least on my laptop, which uses 200% display scaling). Attached is a zoomed screenshot comparison of some text from the google.com homepage. Chromium-based Edge is on top, Firefox is below the red line. Device is a Surface Pro at 200% display scaling, and webpage zoom is default in both browsers. Please fix this Edge team!
Jul 24 2020 11:56 AM
Jul 24 2020 12:02 PM
Jul 24 2020 12:15 PM
@Bdsrev Thank you for the callout! I had both articles open and linked the wrong one. Here is the correct link. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/improve-font-rendering-to-be-on-par-with-firefox-...
Fawkes (they/them)
Program Manager & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
Jul 24 2020 01:04 PM
Jul 30 2020 12:51 PM
Aug 03 2020 05:15 PM
@Bdsrev Haha, well, I won't be yelling at anyone, but I do have an update. I checked in with the team, and the good news is that they've identified the mechanism behind this and are looking into it.
As for the Top Feedback list, it really just comes down to numbers. We focus on which feature requests have the largest volume of submissions from our in-browser feedback tool. So, just because something isn't on the list doesn't mean that it's not a priority to the team; rather, it means we haven't received as many requests for it.
Fawkes (they/them)
Program Manager & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
Aug 04 2020 03:19 AM