Top feedback summary for December 17

Microsoft

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

 

Hey everyone, we’re back again with the latest top feedback summary for the new Microsoft Edge.

 

This week we’re happy to highlight that the extensions store now supports search, addressing one of our top feedback items. Thanks for the feedback that helped drive the development of this feature!

 

On a related note, we’d like to share our thinking about feedback that you’d like to see support for “mouse gestures” in the new Microsoft Edge. This feature would allow users to perform basic to advanced browser functions through simple gestures with the mouse. In the previous Microsoft Edge we supported mouse gestures through an extension that was authored by Microsoft, but we don’t think that we’ll need to do the same for the new Microsoft Edge because there are existing Chromium-compatible mouse gesture extensions. Today our extensions store opened for new submissions, and we expect that one or more of these existing extensions will be submitted to our store by their owners. If this doesn’t happen, we’ll reconsider our approach. In the meantime, users can install Chromium-compatible extensions from other stores. See our help article for instructions on how to do this.

 

We also have a new discussion post this week on the topic of bringing back the reading list feature from legacy Microsoft Edge. While we aren’t planning to do this right away, or use the same approach we used before, we do plan to investigate how we can build something customers will love. To learn more, head over to the discussion post and share your thoughts on the future of reading list.

 

Finally, a quick mention that this is our last update of the year as the team takes a break for the holiday season. There will be no Dev channel updates or top feedback updates on December 24 and December 31. We will be back with another update on or around January 7, and of course we’re all looking forward to general availability on January 15. We want to send a big thank you for helping us build the new Microsoft Edge in 2019. Happy holidays and see you next year!

 

Here’s the full updated list:

 

Status

Feedback

On this list for

Addressed

Enable search in the extensions store

17 weeks

Not Planned

Support mouse gestures for common actions like navigation and tab close

13 weeks

Planned for December

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

2 weeks

Planned for December

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

17 weeks

Planned for January

Enable sync of browsing history between devices

6 weeks

Planned for January

Enable sync of installed browser extensions between devices

6 weeks

Planned for January

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

15 weeks

Planned for January

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

17 weeks

Planned

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

5 weeks

Planned

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

7 weeks

Planned

(Join the discussion)

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

15 weeks

Planned

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

17 weeks

Planned

(Join the discussion)

Provide different options for sorting favorites

17 weeks

Planned

(Learn more)

Support themes from the Chrome Web Store

17 weeks

Planned

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

17 weeks

In Discussion

(Join the discussion)

Add the ability to ink on web pages

7 weeks

In Discussion

(Join the discussion)

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

15 weeks

In Discussion

(Join the discussion)

Allow sign-in to the browser with a Google account

15 weeks

In Discussion

(Join the discussion)

Bring the Ask Cortana feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge

15 weeks

In Discussion

(Join the discussion)

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

17 weeks

Under Review

Opening a new tab is too slow

12 weeks

Under Review

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

12 weeks

Under Review

Provide a transparent theme for the browser frame

13 weeks

Under Review

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

15 weeks

Under Review

Add an option to hide the Bing search bar on the new tab page

17 weeks

Under Review

Allow the search bar in the new tab page to be configured with other search providers

17 weeks

Under Review

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

17 weeks

Under Review

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

17 weeks

Under Review

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

17 weeks

Under Review

Update the user interface with the Fluent Design System

17 weeks

Under Review

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

17 weeks

Quality Area

Bring more extensions to the extensions store

15 weeks

Quality Area

Edge should use less memory than it does

17 weeks

Quality Area

Edge should use less CPU than it does

17 weeks

Quality Area

Scrolling should feel smoother for web pages

17 weeks

Quality Area

Scrolling should feel smoother for PDF files

17 weeks

Quality Area

Update does not always work reliably

17 weeks

 

 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. 

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

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

 

 

46 Replies

@David Rubino No mouse gesture

 

Because there is lot of great mouse gesturee in Chrome store.  I hope them to come to Microsoft store....

@TrueGame 


@TrueGame wrote:

@David Rubino No mouse gesture

 

Because there is lot of great mouse gesturee in Chrome store.  I hope them to come to Microsoft store....


why?

@David Rubino I like using the new Chromium browser but until the New Tab page allows me to set it to either a blank page or a custom URL, I can't use it as my daily driver. This recommendation has been on your feedback list for 17 weeks.  Please make this a priority after release on January 15th.

@rhrmn @David Rubino 

There may be 'backlash' for saying this, but, oh well...

Sometimes giving heaps of concern, focus or attention to NTP seems hard to grasp.  Sometimes it is hard to grasp the point of NTP, initially. Seems could function fine without it, at all.  No, not advocating that, just saying... For all it does or for whatever need it fills, personally, Bing home page offers more search functions plus, all the same things as NTP.  Only bummer with Bing.com, right now, it won't do Dark, BUT, it will soon.  And, there are a couple of Feed settings in NTP that are, also, coming to Bing soon.

I'm sure it's just me, but, sometimes it's hard (for me) to grasp NTP issues being make-or-breaks for the browser.
 
Cheers,
Drew

@rhrmn Have you tried using the focused NTP?Annotation 2019-12-30 175742.png

Yes, I have. I would like to set a custom URL for the NTP due to personal preference for the Google search engine over the Bing search engine. The results I receive from Bing are not as helpful as the results I receive from Google.  I know that I can set my default search engine to Google and search a NTP using the address bar, but I would prefer to switch the NTP from Bing search to Google search.

@rhrmn 

But, why doesn't setting the address search bar to google and using NTP do the trick for you? It's, still, a search bar, same as the one in the middle of the page... well, same functionally, BUT, you can have it using google :happyface: (and w/ NTP).

Cheers,
Drew

Hi! Dear Developers,

 

Have you ever use Firefox? It have a scrollable tabs bar. In Chrome before version 37, there was a flag named stacked-tab-strip in desktop version. But now it only works in mobile version.

 

I hope Microsoft Edge Team can add this function. I need it very much. If I open 30 tabs in Edge, I can not get any useful information from tab bar which is blank or just show the icon in a little space.

 

I am not an English native speak. So I give some website to let you know what I mean:

https://www.ghacks.net/2012/05/28/google-chrome-tab-stacking/

https://support.google.com/chrome/forum/AAAAP1KN0B06fh1_1Mu9_U/?hl=en-GB

https://superuser.com/questions/1323820/how-to-implement-scrollable-tab-bar-in-chrome-like-in-firefo...

https://codereview.chromium.org/291093005

 

Thank you.

Best wishes!

@rhrmn 


@rhrmn wrote:

@David Rubino I like using the new Chromium browser but until the New Tab page allows me to set it to either a blank page or a custom URL, I can't use it as my daily driver. This recommendation has been on your feedback list for 17 weeks.  Please make this a priority after release on January 15th.


 

Hi,

you can already do them both.

 

This is the cleanest you can get. use the NTP layout to set it like this.

 

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You can also set a web page to be opened on startup

 

edge://settings/onStartup

Spoiler
@Drew1903 wrote:


There may be 'backlash' for saying this, but, oh well...
Sometimes giving heaps of concern, focus or attention to NTP seems hard to grasp.  Sometimes it is hard to grasp the point of NTP, initially. Seems could function fine without it, at all.  No, not advocating that, just saying... For all it does or for whatever need it fills, personally, Bing home page offers more search functions plus, all the same things as NTP.  Only bummer with Bing.com, right now, it won't do Dark, BUT, it will soon.  And, there are a couple of Feed settings in NTP that are, also, coming to Bing soon.

I'm sure it's just me, but, sometimes it's hard (for me) to grasp NTP issues being make-or-breaks for the browser.

 

The search results on Bing and how good and relative they are all depends on how much data Bing crawls from websites and how many website developers Let Bing crawl data in their websites.

Sure,
feel free to pick whatever you like from the catalog here:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/collection/customize_your_new_tab_page

One of the best outcomes of switching from EdgeHTML to Chromium is that now we don't need to wait for developers to implement something. just search for whatever you like and there is a high chance an extension is made for it.

Microsoft Edge should let users switch NTP search engine to whatever they like. Google chrome does and I already set my NTP in Google chrome to Bing.
It is a nice feature, when I tried Vivaldi it had this feature too and it's also a Chromium based browser.

https://help.vivaldi.com/article/grouping-tabs/

https://vivaldi.com/features/tab-management/

Microsoft Edge should learn a lot from Vivaldi

@David Rubino isn't any orientative date for when will be moreless fixed the tocuhpas swipe issue on synaptics?

 

 

@David Rubino Will extensions be synced to Android Edge ("Enable sync of installed browser extensions between devices")? Extensions on Android Edge is the killer feature to make Edge better than Chrome. That would get me using it (as it already has the other killer feature I need - inline translation like Chrome) and that in turn would encourage me to switch to Chromium Edge on Linux on my laptop when it becomes available.

I would love that but for that to happen, first Microsoft should create a browser version of Edge that supports extension, like Forefox. but I haven't seen any Chromium based browser to be able to run extensions on mobile OS.
The only one chromium based browser that can handle extesions are yandex browser and kiwi browser for now. I'm using kiwi atm. Browsing without an adblocker is a suicide nowadays.
Oh thanks, didn't know Yandex on Android supports Chromium extensions! it's great

Has Secure DNS lookups been removed? I was using this feature since it was implemented, but noticed a few days ago that I could no longer access certain sites. I live in Indonesia and sites like Reddit are banned. Using Secure DNS lookups on Chrome and Firefox I can access them.

@liquidguru 


@liquidguru wrote:

Has Secure DNS lookups been removed? I was using this feature since it was implemented, but noticed a few days ago that I could no longer access certain sites. I live in Indonesia and sites like Reddit are banned. Using Secure DNS lookups on Chrome and Firefox I can access them.


 

Which channel/version are you using?

secure DNS is available on the latest version 81.0.385.0 canary