Note: This is no longer the most recent top feedback summary. You can always find the latest at https://aka.ms/MSEdgeTopFeedback.
Why, hello, Insiders! Welcome to the last Top Feedback update for January! We are closing out several items and moving one to next month. Let’s jump right in!
First up, we’re moving Bring the tab preview feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge from Planned for January to February. We continue to listen to user feedback around this and encourage you to jump into the discussion thread to share your thoughts if you haven’t already!
There are three things we’re closing out as Addressed today! Enable customers to pin sites to Start Menu in Windows should be available for all users in all channels now. To pin your favorite website to the Start menu, head to the … menu > More tools > Pin to Start. Support two-page layout in PDF reader is something that we’ve been tracking as a part of our PDF Roadmap and are super excited to mark as Addressed for our frequent readers of PDFs. Lastly, Enable vertical tabs feature is being closed out thanks to its availability to everyone using our Canary and Dev channels (under controlled feature roll-out).
That’s it for this week’s items, we’ll be back next week!
Here’s the updated list for this week:
Status
Feedback
On this list for
Addressed
Enable vertical tabs feature
23 weeks
Addressed
Enable customers to pin sites to Start Menu in Windows
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.
I finally found the need for it and really wish they had it. For anyone who is confused it's for those tabs that you just do not want to close in order to close the browser
I know you can add all tabs to a collection; this was introduced almost a year ago, but the status of "Bring the tab set aside feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge" was updated to "Alternative planned" in November 2020, so Microsoft must be planning something more.
The current implementation of collections cannot replace set tabs aside because:
The history for each tab is not saved in Collections. When I restore set aside tabs in Edge Legacy, I can use the back and forward buttons to go back to the next or previous page; this is not possible with Collections.
Set tabs aside also saves the position on the page. This, and saving the history for each tab, means set tabs aside can be used to restore the browser to a previous state, as if the tabs were never closed; this cannot be done with collections.
It takes many more clicks to achieve what Set Tabs Aside does with Collections. Setting tabs aside not only saves the tabs, but also closes them with just one click, making it easy to move onto another task in an uncluttered browser. It also restores the tabs and removes them from set aside tabs with just one click, making it easy to resume a task and removing the need to remember to delete tabs when the task is done. Another thing which reduces the number of clicks needed is that with Edge Legacy, you can scroll sideways in a group of tabs set aside to see more tabs; with Collections in Chromium Edge, you have to open a collection to see more tabs, and then click a button to return to the list of collections to check another collection.
To the best of my knowledge, that is the alternative thing that is planned. they referred to it as the alternative to set tabs aside (can't find the comment), they never talked about a 3rd thing.
"We’re excited to announce that we are marking Bring the tab set aside feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge as Alternative Planned. While we don’t have any details around the alternative right now, the team will update everyone here as we get them."
To me this suggests the alternative is something we hadn't seen yet in November. And as you said, they haven't talked about a 3rd thing; that's why I'm asking for an update here.
Just found out on the latest edge Canary build that came out today that you can right-click and pin tabs as (I think) the alternative to set aside tabs. I've tested it out and it works. may not be finished yet but It's getting better. (Also I think they are using the pinned icon too much)
