Dec 17 2019 10:49 AM - last edited on Jan 08 2020 10:40 AM by MissyQ
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 |
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 |
|
Dec 17 2019 10:58 AM
Dec 17 2019 01:13 PM
And STILL no mention of adding the facility to have middle-clicks on favourites in favourites menus leave the menu open for further clicks without having to reopen and re-navigate each time, as in IE, classic Edge and Firefox. So there's still no way I'm using Chromium Edge.
Meanwhile Mozilla have just given me the thing I (and, I presume, other people) asked for in Firefox Preview on Android - the option to move the bottom controls to the top. Guess which company I am feeling all warm and fuzzy about.
Dec 18 2019 12:06 AM
Dec 18 2019 12:12 AM
Dec 18 2019 05:32 AM
@GrahamJockeyyes PLEASE! We really really need scrollable tabstrip back! Also please add Set Tabs Aside back and Fluent Design too!
Dec 18 2019 06:46 AM
Dec 18 2019 08:55 AM
@David Rubino @MissyQ @fawkes-serafinski
There's still no mention of scrollable tabs. Tiny tabs is a massive issue that nearly everyone encounters that can be fixed with scrollable tabs, like in Spartan edge and Firefox.
I also have an older post that talks about the overall layout and it would be nice for the team to take a look at it, as some of the suggestions are easy to implement and can improve the overall experience.
Dec 18 2019 12:02 PM
Thanks for the update @David Rubino.
I'm hoping next year there may be an update/discussion around adding:
Dec 20 2019 12:13 AM
When the mouse gestures support is unplaned, will the official "Mouse Gestures" extension from EdgeHTML Edge available in Chromium Edge Addon store? In the developer doc, migrate a extension from old edge seems easy.
Dec 21 2019 09:24 PM
@Jason_Han strokesplus.net maybe a good choice, it allows you to use mouse gesture everywhere on windows.
Dec 22 2019 12:25 PM
Dec 22 2019 05:47 PM
The current InPrivate UI looks too chrome like, it's too robotic, and it can be hard to notice when dark theme is activated. If it was bolded in like how it is for edge classic, it would be much better.
Dec 22 2019 06:19 PM
I hope you will reconsider bringing over the Microsoft mouse gesture extension. Personally, I prefer to limit the use of third party extensions, so relying on the existing chrome extensions would amount to this being a lost feature for me.
Dec 22 2019 06:38 PM
Dec 24 2019 10:20 AM
@David Rubino Having an issue with DEV 80.0.361.9 where CPU goes up over 400% on a consistent basis out of nowhere. Been reporting it but has been this way for weeks now.
Dec 24 2019 09:25 PM
Dec 25 2019 06:30 PM
@David Rubino Still, want the ability that right-button click of mouse can give different search engine options at given selected words or sentences on the webpage.
Dec 25 2019 11:21 PM - edited Dec 25 2019 11:32 PM
@David RubinoSorry, but I have to say that your view on the mouse gesture part is very flawed. All the available extensions so far make me click the right mouse button to activate the gesture. That is not smooth or convenient at all. In Edge I just swipe left an right, smooth and comfortable. That is browsing how I was used to even since the old Macbook days 2009. Not supporting it makes me simply stay away, since a comfortable use of the browser isn´t given. Terrible decision, seriously.
PS: You seem not to understand, that the general problem isn´t a big deal using an actual mouse, but the built in touchpads of most laptops
Dec 26 2019 01:23 PM
@matb86 If you hit the feedback button while its happening, and click the blue underlined 'send diagnostic data', and then 'recreate my problem', and start recording, then they can see what exactly is causing the problem.