Top Feedback Summary for August 12

Microsoft

Note: This is no longer the most recent top feedback summary. You can always find the latest at https://aka.ms/MSEdgeTopFeedback.

 

Hello, Insiders! We have a couple of updates this week, including marking one as Addressed! Let’s take a look at what we’re changing this week on this list.

 

First up, we’re really excited to share that Enable navigation of PDF files via table of contents is being updated to appear in Canary by September, so we’re marking that as Planned for September. Keep an eye out for this to appear, and be sure to let us know how you feel about the navigation! Additionally, we expect to have our changes for Voice search on google.com doesn’t work available in September. If you use voice to search on your browser, look for these changes soon.

 

This week, we’re marking Provide different options for sorting favorites as Addressed. Back at the end of April, we posted that we implemented the ability to sort your favorites alphabetically. We now believe that this has answered most user requests around sorting favorites. The team is consistently looking at feedback around favorites, though! If there’s a sorting option that you would like to see, please do drop us some feedback through the browser itself (or the mobile app if you’re using that).

 

That’s it for this week! We’ll chat at you all with next week’s update.

 

Here’s our updates for this week:

 

Status

Feedback

On this list for

Addressed

(See the discussion)

Provide different options for sorting favorites

51 weeks

Planned for September

Enable navigation of PDF files via table of contents

26 weeks

Planned for September

Voice search on google.com doesn’t work

15 weeks

Planned for Summer

Enable sync of browsing history between devices

40 weeks

Planned

Enable customers to pin sites to Start Menu in Windows

2 weeks

Planned

Enable automatic generation of strong passwords

8 weeks

Planned

Support two-page layout in PDF reader

8 weeks

Planned

Edge launches with previous session’s tabs when “On startup” setting is set to “Open a new tab”

8 weeks

Planned

Add option to remove previous search terms from the New Tab Page’s search box auto-suggestion list 

9 weeks

Planned

Add "text notes" feature to PDF files

13 weeks

Planned

Some web page fonts are blurry

14 weeks

Planned

MSA profile picture is not updating

18 weeks

Planned

Allow more top sites on the New Tab Page

23 weeks

Planned

Make Edge available on Linux

29 weeks

Planned

(Join the discussion)

Add the ability to ink on web pages

41 weeks

Planned

(Join the discussion)

Bring the tab preview feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge

51 weeks

Planned

(Join the discussion)

Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files

51 weeks

Planned

(Learn more)

Support themes from the Chrome Web Store

51 weeks

Planned

Provide an option to prevent auto-play of video and audio when you open a website

51 weeks

Alternative Planned
(Join the discussion)

Update the user interface with the Fluent Design System

51 weeks

In Discussion
(Join the discussion)

Ask users if they want to close all tabs when they close a browser window

46 weeks

In Discussion
(Join the discussion)

The address bar and its text are too big, and should be smaller like Chrome

49 weeks

In Discussion
(Join the discussion)

Bring the tab set aside feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge

51 weeks

Under Review

Restore tabs if Edge or the OS is restarted for any reason

2 weeks

Under Review

Add ability to close tabs via double-click

18 weeks

Not Planned

Support mouse gestures for common actions like navigation and tab close

13 weeks

Not Planned

(View the discussion)

Allow sign-in to the browser with a Google account

23 weeks

Not planned

(See the discussion)

Bring the reading list feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge

35 weeks

Not Planned
(Read the discussion)

Provide a transparent theme for the browser frame

43 weeks

Not Planned
(Read the discussion)

Make tabs more square and less rounded, like the current version of Microsoft Edge

47 weeks

 

And here’s the list of top “quality areas” that we’re actively working on in response to your feedback:

 

Bring more extensions to the extensions store

Edge should use less memory than it does

Edge should use less CPU than it does

Scrolling should feel smoother for web pages

Scrolling should feel smoother for PDF files

Opening a new tab is too slow

Update does not always work reliably

 

Definitions:

 

Addressed – Changes to address this feedback are visible to all users in the Canary and Dev channels

Not Planned – We don’t currently plan to address this feedback, though we will continue to track it and reconsider our approach if needed.

Planned for… – We’re working on this and currently plan for it to be addressed in the Canary channel before the end of the month indicated.

Planned - We have reviewed this feedback and have a plan to address it. However, we aren't ready to share a target time frame just yet. 

Alternative Planned - We don’t currently plan to directly address this feedback; however, we are working on addressing this in the form of a new feature.

In Discussion – We’ve reviewed this feedback and to learn more we have started a discussion about it here in the Microsoft Edge Insider Forum.

Under Review – We are reviewing this feedback internally and do not have a plan to share at this time.

Quality Area – We will give extra weight to fixes and opportunities in this area. Please continue to report specific bugs and make specific asks. 

 

Archive of previously addressed topics:

 

Spoiler

 

Feedback

On this list for

Addressed on

Bring the Ask Cortana feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge
(See the alternative)

50 weeks

Aug 5, 2020

Highlighter tool for PDF files

21 weeks

July 15, 2020

Mouse cursor sometimes disappears

(Read the discussion)

11 weeks

June 24, 2020

Support read aloud of PDF files

20 weeks

June 9, 2020

Edge cannot find devices to cast media (Learn more)

16 weeks

May 19, 2020

Provide option to keep specific cookies when choosing to clear browsing data on close

21 weeks

Apr 7, 2020

Option to set a custom photo as the New Tab Page background photo

33 weeks

Apr 7, 2020

Add an option to hide the Bing search bar on the new tab page (Learn more)

32 weeks

Mar 31, 2020

Allow the search bar in the new tab page to be configured with other search providers (Learn more)

32 weeks

Mar 31, 2020

Provide an option to set a custom URL for a new tab instead of showing the new tab page (Learn more)

32 weeks

Mar 31, 2020

Enable sync of installed browser extensions between devices

19 weeks

Mar 19. 2020

Some users are unable to access any web page

3 weeks

Mar 11, 2020

Favorites sync issues, including sync not working, deleted favorites reappearing, and favorites being duplicated

13 weeks

Mar 4, 2020

Provide an option to add a share button to the tool bar

17 weeks

Feb 26, 2020

Need for better handling of links when there is more than one profile

26 weeks

Feb 21, 2020

Touchpad two-finger scrolling is sometimes triggering a right click instead

24 weeks

Feb 21, 2020

Add the ability to change the location for news content on the new tab page

20 weeks

Jan 22, 2020

Provide the ability to change the title of tiles on the new tab page

22 weeks

Jan 22, 2020

Enable search in the extensions store

17 weeks

Dec 19, 2019

The taskbar icon is not updating to the new Microsoft Edge logo

1 week

Nov 14, 2019

A round of improvements to scrolling experience, with more (including performance) to come down the line

12 weeks

Nov 14, 2019

YouTube.com does not render properly and appears extremely magnified

1 week

Nov 4, 2019

Bring the OneNote Web Clipper to the Microsoft Edge extensions store

4 weeks

Nov 4, 2019

Improve discoverability of the home button since some users are asking for it. (Join the discussion)

8 weeks

October 29, 2019

Microsoft Edge is crashing whenever a new tab is opened from a link

1 week

October 22, 2019

Inking for PDF files

9 weeks

October 22, 2019

Provide an option to remove the send feedback “smiley” button from the toolbar

1 week

October 15, 2019

Show the New Tab Page in dark theme when the browser is in dark theme

6 weeks

October 1, 2019

Add the ability to turn off the news feed on the new tab page

6 weeks

October 1, 2019

ClickOnce deployment of Windows applications from web pages

6 weeks

October 1, 2019

Website elements are being flipped upside down when switching between tabs

1 week

September 17, 2019

Sign-in profile picture is not always kept up to date

4 weeks

September 17, 2019

“Administrator Mode Detected” error message when opening the browser

2 weeks

September 4, 2019

Add a favorites button to the toolbar, for quicker access to favorites

1 week

August 29, 2019

Make it easier to share web content with other users and apps

1 week

August 29, 2019

Drop down menus in some web pages are not working

1 week

August 29, 2019

Add a dark theme to Microsoft Edge

Addressed before these posts started

 

Build translation capabilities into the browser

Addressed before these posts started

 

Delete browsing history on exit

Addressed before these posts started

 

Show favorites bar only on the new tab page

Addressed before these posts started

 

Bring back reading view

Addressed before these posts started

 

Sync data with my work or school account

Addressed before these posts started

 

 

 

11 Replies

@MissyQ 

Really excited and thank you for sharing.

Special thank for Table of Content feature in PDF.

The first item ‘Provide different options for sorting favourites’ has not been addressed at all. There is only ‘sort by name’ which we’ve always had across all channels.

Favourites are also still being placed at the top rather than bottom of the list when moved into a folder (this is a bug).

Besides the addition of tick boxes, manage favourites has seen very little to no improvement since early Insider builds which is a shame if you rely on favourites a lot.

@Wade_Middleton I'm not sure either what exactly was changed :thinking_face:

How many of you want the favorites in favorites bar to be on the middle, instead of starting from the left side? If you like this idea, Please submit it through Feedback(alt+shift+I), please.

Why I want this? I kind of fill it uncomfortable to see the left most icon. Think about it.

@MissyQ 

 

StatusFeedbackOn this list for
Planned for SummerEnable sync of browsing history between devices40 weeks

 

Can we have more details about this feedback now because I think the US is in Summer for more than a month?

$100 that the will delay it again until winter

@MissyQ 

If there is no different options for sorting favorites, please mark it as Not Planned not Addressed.

 

I`m happy to see that feedback addressed and sad to know nothing happens.

No changes at all. no Address, only Not Planned

@MissyQ If favourites remain this way, I’m sorry to say I’ll have to switch browsers. For my work, I rely on favourites a lot with thousands of favourites and folders for each project. My colleagues are no different.

 

No browser other than Firefox comes with a fully-fledged favourites manager as far as I know, so I was happy to hear we would finally have a Chromium-based browser that does.

 

Then there are favourites-related bugs which have not been addressed in any way despite reporting them several times through the feedback tool since early Insider builds. Chrome does not suffer from these bugs at all.

 

After all this time where Edge’s development feels increasingly more stagnant, it has become clear to me the new Edge team consists of only a few developers and/or the team doesn’t have their priorities straight.

@MissyQ  Vertical tab please!