Aug 12 2020 10:55 AM - edited Aug 19 2020 10:58 AM
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 |
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 |
Update the user interface with the Fluent Design System |
51 weeks |
In Discussion |
Ask users if they want to close all tabs when they close a browser window |
46 weeks |
In Discussion |
The address bar and its text are too big, and should be smaller like Chrome |
49 weeks |
In 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 |
Provide a transparent theme for the browser frame |
43 weeks |
Not Planned |
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:
Feedback |
On this list for |
Addressed on |
Bring the Ask Cortana feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
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 |
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Aug 13 2020 06:44 AM
Aug 13 2020 08:02 AM
Aug 13 2020 08:52 AM
@Wade_Middleton I'm not sure either what exactly was changed :thinking_face:
Aug 13 2020 09:15 AM
Aug 13 2020 10:18 AM - edited Aug 13 2020 10:20 AM
Status | Feedback | On this list for |
Planned for Summer | Enable sync of browsing history between devices | 40 weeks |
Can we have more details about this feedback now because I think the US is in Summer for more than a month?
Aug 13 2020 01:52 PM
Aug 13 2020 08:15 PM
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.
Aug 13 2020 08:21 PM
Aug 14 2020 07:06 AM
@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.