Dec 03 2019 10:40 AM - edited Dec 10 2019 10:36 AM
Note: This is no longer the most recent top feedback summary. You can always find the latest at https://aka.ms/MSEdgeTopFeedback.
Hello everyone, we took a break last week but we’re ready with a new update to the top feedback this week.
First, there’s some trending new feedback this week about favorites sync issues. For most the symptom is that favorites are simply not syncing, a known issue which we’re working on at the highest priority. Others are reporting that deleted favorites are reappearing, or that duplicate favorites are showing up. We believe these are symptoms of the same known issue so for now we’re tracking them together on this list. We expect to address them as soon as possible this month.
Next up, some other new plans:
Meanwhile, some of our planned changes for November didn’t quite come in on time. We now believe that better handling of links for multiple profiles and search in the extension store will come in December, whereas the ability to change the title of New Tab Page tiles is now expected in January.
Finally, there’s one topic which we’re putting back in this list. In September we shipped the ability for users to limit or block autoplay via settings. Unfortunately, after several bug reports and some investigation, it turns out that the “block” functionality in the browser didn’t actually block autoplay and we turned this feature off in mid-October. We still want to ship a great autoplay experience that includes full block and granular control over what sites can and cannot autoplay, but don’t want to roll out a broken experience in the meantime. We’re sorry for the confusion and takeback, and hope to have things working well sometime next year.
Here’s the full updated list of feedback:
Status |
Feedback |
On this list for |
Planned for December |
Favorites sync issues, including sync not working, deleted favorites reappearing, and favorites being duplicated |
New |
Planned for December (Previously November) |
Need for better handling of links when there is more than one profile |
15 weeks |
Planned for December (Previously November) |
Enable search in the extensions store |
15 weeks |
Planned for January |
Enable sync of browsing history between devices |
4 weeks |
Planned for January |
Enable sync of installed browser extensions between devices |
4 weeks |
Planned for January |
Add the ability to change the location for news content on the new tab page |
13 weeks |
Planned for January (Previously November) |
Provide the ability to change the title of tiles on the new tab page |
15 weeks |
Planned |
Provide option to keep specific cookies when choosing to clear browsing data on close |
3 weeks |
Planned |
Provide an option to add a share button to the tool bar |
5 weeks |
Planned (Join the discussion) |
Touchpad two-finger scrolling is sometimes triggering a right click instead |
13 weeks |
Planned |
Option to set a custom photo as the New Tab Page background photo |
15 weeks |
Planned (Join the discussion) |
Provide different options for sorting favorites |
15 weeks |
Planned |
Support themes from the Chrome Web Store |
15 weeks |
Planned |
Provide an option to prevent auto-play of video and audio when you open a website |
15 weeks |
In Discussion (Join the discussion) |
Add the ability to ink on web pages |
5 weeks |
In Discussion (Join the discussion) |
Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files |
13 weeks |
In Discussion (Join the discussion) |
Allow sign-in to the browser with a Google account |
13 weeks |
In Discussion (Join the discussion) |
Bring the Ask Cortana feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
13 weeks |
Under Review |
Opening a new tab is too slow |
10 weeks |
Under Review |
Ask users if they want to close all tabs when they close a browser window |
10 weeks |
Under Review |
Support mouse gestures for common actions like navigation and tab close |
11 weeks |
Under Review |
Provide a transparent theme for the browser frame |
11 weeks |
Under Review |
The address bar and its text are too big, and should be smaller like Chrome |
13 weeks |
Under Review |
Bring the reading list feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
15 weeks |
Under Review |
Add an option to hide the Bing search bar on the new tab page |
15 weeks |
Under Review |
Allow the search bar in the new tab page to be configured with other search providers |
15 weeks |
Under Review |
Bring the tab set aside feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
15 weeks |
Under Review |
Bring the tab preview feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
15 weeks |
Under Review |
Provide an option to set a custom URL for a new tab instead of showing the new tab page |
15 weeks |
Under Review |
Update the user interface with the Fluent Design System |
15 weeks |
Under Review |
Make tabs more square and less rounded, like the current version of Microsoft Edge |
15 weeks |
Quality Area |
Bring more extensions to the extensions store |
13 weeks |
Quality Area |
Edge should use less memory than it does |
15 weeks |
Quality Area |
Edge should use less CPU than it does |
15 weeks |
Quality Area |
Scrolling should feel smoother for web pages |
15 weeks |
Quality Area |
Scrolling should feel smoother for PDF files |
15 weeks |
Quality Area |
Update does not always work reliably |
15 weeks |
Definitions:
Addressed – Changes to address this feedback are visible to all users in the Canary and Dev channels
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 08 2019 02:47 AM
@HotCakeX this. Its not about the tabs. The web page starts to become clunky and move around when scrolling up or down with a track pad.
Dec 08 2019 02:50 AM
@asipoftea wrote:@HotCakeX this. Its not about the tabs. The web page starts to become clunky and move around when scrolling up or down with a track pad.
Yeah exactly
Dec 08 2019 02:40 PM
Dec 08 2019 02:53 PM
Dec 08 2019 02:59 PM - edited Dec 08 2019 10:19 PM
It's REALLY easy to prefer Bing. It's very impressive and offers a lot! And more cool things are coming to it all the time. It has many very helpful tools and abilities, indeed! And what it does it does well (and better) and in nice(r), appealing ways.
Cheers,
Drew
Dec 08 2019 03:00 PM
@HotCakeX Regarding Microsoft providing more non-US based content...
I think Microsoft is getting much better at supporting non-US markets. Certainly as far as the UK is concerned Microsoft offer some of the best UK-English services compared with the likes of Apple and Google.
A small example - using Microsoft's SwiftKey keyboard on my main Android mobile works a treat, but using 'UK English' with G-Board on my spare Android phone results in American English spellings being suggested before UK English ones. This is really frustrating, not to mention making life difficult for those learning English in the UK.
I believe the cultural differences in language are very important, and have noticed particularly recently that things are beginning to slip, often reading 'traveling' instead of 'travelling' or 'spelled' instead of 'spelt.' (I accept that language changes all the time, and that English of all variants is particularly fluid, or perhaps it is my age making me more sensitive than I should be?)
The same applies to Apple as well - the news app on my MacBook is horrendously America-centric, whereas the Microsoft News App can be tailored to suit the UK and even provide news from local newspapers too.
Dec 08 2019 03:04 PM
Dec 09 2019 12:51 AM
@jraff wrote:
I'm sure Bing is great, and I may give it a try. However, you can't expect every other lay user to just start using Bing, people like Google and are resistant to change. More people would use edge if they'd just allow us to use our own search engine for the NTP. I know that some people only use DuckDuckGo for privacy reasons, would it be more user-friendly to just add the option?
Yeah I want to use DuckDuckGo and i want the NTP to get DuckDuckGo's theme when i switch my search engine to it. Google chrome exactly does this. you know what this means? Google, the number 1 search engine in the world, is letting people change the search engine of their Chrome browser to something else, so why Microsoft shouldn't let this happen!
Dec 09 2019 12:53 AM
@Drew1903 wrote:It's REALLY easy to prefer Bing. It's very impressive and offers a lot! And more cool things are coming to it all the time. It has many very helpful tools and abilities, indeed! And what it does it does well (and better) and in nice(r), appealing ways.
Bing sucks at search results and crawling sites that use non-English languages and locales.
Bing, just like the majority of Microsoft products, are optimized for US only.
Sent from Android mobile
Dec 09 2019 01:16 AM
@Graham-STMC wrote:@HotCakeX Regarding Microsoft providing more non-US based content...
I think Microsoft is getting much better at supporting non-US markets. Certainly as far as the UK is concerned Microsoft offer some of the best UK-English services compared with the likes of Apple and Google.
A small example - using Microsoft's SwiftKey keyboard on my main Android mobile works a treat, but using 'UK English' with G-Board on my spare Android phone results in American English spellings being suggested before UK English ones. This is really frustrating, not to mention making life difficult for those learning English in the UK.
I believe the cultural differences in language are very important, and have noticed particularly recently that things are beginning to slip, often reading 'traveling' instead of 'travelling' or 'spelled' instead of 'spelt.' (I accept that language changes all the time, and that English of all variants is particularly fluid, or perhaps it is my age making me more sensitive than I should be?)
The same applies to Apple as well - the news app on my MacBook is horrendously America-centric, whereas the Microsoft News App can be tailored to suit the UK and even provide news from local newspapers too.
UK don't really count because they are using English as well :)
Swiftkey on Android is probably the only Microsoft product that has full multilingual support and even supports all the rare locales, dialects etc.
the majority of the world speak other languages natively. in Europe, English is no more the dominant language since UK left EU.
apart from US and UK, there are 200 other countries that should be paid attention to.
Even Bing rewards differ hugely when you compare UK with US rewards, the rest of the world have less reward options to choose from and less ways to earn points.
Sent from Android mobile
Dec 09 2019 01:22 AM
@Drew1903 wrote:
The address bar can be set to any SE. There is no real need to be relying on, using or depending on NTP exclusively, for searching.
But NTP search bar is still there, your point would be valid if we had an option to remove the NTP search bar completely so users wouldn't worry about what search engine the NTP uses :)
Sent from Android mobile
Dec 09 2019 02:35 AM
@Graham-STMC
Graham, I'll agree. Certainly, it's excellent (& easy) the local, provincial & national focus we have in Canada. Doesn't matter how physically close, still, non-US. Anyway, it is true it is better than back in the day, by a long shot. One can, also, notice that the coverage or support is wider out-of-the-box... used to be regions & languages tended to expand after release. Now, there are (heaps) more at release time. And, yes, there are more than ever & that keeps growing, will keep growing.
It's self-defeating & counter-productive for people to have available internet and not in a language they know. Or can't talk to Cortana due to a language barrier; Supposed to be in the name of communication. And if ones OS is in a certain language, certainly want the browser the same way, too.
I will repeat something, though... When MS is doing lab work on betas, testing, stuff will be US-centric & (US) English; at least at the onset... that may expand, even, whilst (still) in beta.
Cheers,
Drew
Dec 09 2019 04:14 AM
Dec 09 2019 05:33 AM
@Drew1903 @HotCakeX Fair points. I am aware more people in the world speak Spanish or Chinese than English. Microsoft is a US based company, it is fair to expect that their products and services are initially produced and developed in US English, but it does seem to be a cultural hang-up of the US in general, possibly linked to current political leadership, that the US focuses on its own navel first. In the UK there are campaigns to keep Welsh and Gaelic (Scottish) alive. Let's hope that with more involvement from insiders more services featuring cultural variations and languages will be supported in time.
Dec 09 2019 06:40 AM
Dec 09 2019 08:26 AM
Dec 09 2019 08:35 AM
Dec 09 2019 12:05 PM
@tistou wrote:
Hello
Possible to correct/add these points ?
1 - Re add option to disable the immersive reader in edge://flags/
2 - Since several versions of Canary, with each opening of the browser, it is first the about: blank url before having the right url (it slows down navigation)
The problem does not appear if Edge is already open (and the new page opens in a new tab
3 - Always display bugs in text frames or clickable buttons of some sites (not present with other chromium browser)
Thanks for your great work
Hello
An idea of when it will be corrected (2 and 3) ?
Will the 1 be added (as before) ?
Thanks
Dec 10 2019 04:23 AM
@David Rubino I have two suggestions regarding the PDF reader.
First, I think the browser should have page "Page Tab" where we can see all the pages.
Second, the rotation mechanism should be enhanced: I cannot rotate only 1 page in case it had the wrong orientation. If rotation is applied on one page, all the pages rotate similarly. I think the behavior should be when all pages selected then all the pages rotate.
Dec 10 2019 05:59 PM
@David Rubino Can you guys add the search engine sync function?
Everytime I reinstall the browser, I have to edit the search engine from the beginning, it was a nightmare.