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MicrosoftTop Feedback Summary for March 23
Note: This is no longer the most recent top feedback summary. You can always find the latest at https://aka.ms/MSEdgeTopFeedback.
Hey there, Insiders! If you are one of our Canary users, you may have spotted last week that you now have your own update page. Our Dev and Beta channel users have been seeing these update pages whenever the channels receive a major update (for our Dev users, this is weekly), and we’re excited to bring that same level of details to our Canary users.
While not on this list but directly related to feedback from you all, the team wants to talk to Collections users! We have a survey running right now where you can apply to be a part of a research study about Collections – you even have a chance at earning some money! Talking with you all about your feedback during one-on-one conversations really helps us understand at a deeper level what your needs are, so we encourage you to sign up to chat with us!
In other “not on this list” news, today’s Dev channel update brings Microsoft account sync to Edge on Linux! This is something we have been working hard on, and Sean goes over the details in his forums post here.
Now, for this week’s updates to the list! Not much is being shuffled around this week, however we are marking Add a dictionary to the PDF reader as Addressed! Aditi’s PDF roadmap post talks about what we’re working on next for our PDF reader, and we encourage you to give it a read to see what we’ve done.
If you haven’t spotted it yet, we’ve implemented some more browser themes! William talks about this update here. This is part of the work around Users would like more theme and customization options, however we are continuously listening as we make adjustments in this space. Please continue to submit feedback to us about customization requests via the … menu > Help and feedback > Send feedback. We still plan on work around this so we are going to keep this status as Planned for now.
That’s it for this week! We’ll see you all for next week’s update to your top feedback.
Here’s the updated list for this week:
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Status |
Feedback |
On this list for |
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Addressed |
Add dictionary in PDF |
31 weeks |
|
Planned for March |
Allow users to turn off the “Disable developer mode extensions” notification |
15 weeks |
|
Planned for March |
Some web page fonts are blurry |
46 weeks |
|
Planned for March |
Allow more top sites on the New Tab Page |
55 weeks |
|
Planned for March |
Ask users if they want to close all tabs when they close a browser window |
79 weeks |
|
Planned for March |
Provide an option to prevent auto-play of video and audio when you open a website |
83 weeks |
|
Planned for March (Join the discussion) |
Bring the tab preview feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
83 weeks |
|
Planned for May |
Users can find and manage their tabs more easily by organizing them into associated groups |
7 weeks |
|
Planned for May |
Users can get back to where they left off in PDF documents |
15 weeks |
|
Planned |
Users would like more theme and customization options |
7 weeks |
|
Planned |
Edge should respect the default PDF viewer |
31 weeks |
|
Planned |
Restore tabs if Edge or the OS is restarted for any reason |
34 weeks |
|
Planned |
MSA profile picture is not updating |
50 weeks |
|
Alternative Planned |
Bring the tab set aside feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
83 weeks |
|
In Discussion (Join the discussion) |
Add ability to close tabs via double-click |
50 weeks |
|
In Discussion |
The address bar and its text are too big, and should be smaller like Chrome |
83 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Hide or shrink the title bar when vertical tabs are enabled |
3 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Enable search of items in Collections |
3 weeks |
|
Under Review |
Enable option to match Windows display language |
22 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 |
Edge launches with previous session’s tabs when “On startup” setting is set to “Open a new tab” |
25 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:
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Bring more extensions to the extensions store |
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Edge should use less memory than it does |
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Edge should use less CPU than it does |
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Scrolling should feel smoother for web pages |
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Scrolling should feel smoother for PDF files |
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Opening a new tab is too slow |
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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 |
|
Some passwords are not saved |
25 weeks |
Mar 16, 2021 |
|
Enable kiosk mode |
16 weeks |
Feb 9, 2021 |
|
Add option to remove previous search terms from the New Tab Page’s search box auto-suggestion list |
35 weeks |
Feb 9, 2021 |
|
Enable vertical tabs feature |
23 weeks |
Jan 27, 2021 |
|
Enable customers to pin sites to Start Menu in Windows |
26 weeks |
Jan 27, 2021 |
|
Support two-page layout in PDF reader |
32 weeks |
Jan 27, 2021 |
|
Voice search on google.com doesn’t work |
31 weeks |
Dec 1, 2020 |
|
Enable sync of browsing history between devices |
57 weeks |
Dec 1, 2020 |
|
Add the ability to ink on web page content |
57 weeks |
Dec 1, 2020 |
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Add "text notes" feature to PDF files |
27 weeks |
Nov 17, 2020 |
|
Update the user interface with the Fluent Design System |
65 weeks |
Nov 17, 2020 |
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Enable customers to pin Favorites menu to the side of the screen |
6 weeks |
Nov 3, 2020 |
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Make Edge available on Linux |
39 weeks |
Oct 20, 2020 |
|
Support themes from the Chrome Web Store |
60 weeks |
Oct 15, 2020 |
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Enable automatic generation of strong passwords |
13 weeks |
Sept 15, 2020 |
|
Enable navigation of PDF files via table of contents |
31 weeks |
Sept 15, 2020 |
|
Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files |
55 weeks |
Sept 9, 2020 |
|
Provide different options for sorting favorites |
51 weeks |
Aug 11, 2020 |
|
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 |
|
Thank you for the info
It would be possible to have information on these bugs (no response with the feedback, of course)
No more tooltip : No more tooltip - Microsoft Tech Community
Import password and data : Import password and other - Microsoft Tech Community
Not using sync and needing to import data (favorites, etc ...), I hope these bugs will be resolved quickly
Or how to import Favorites (without sync) ?
Thanks
tistou wrote:Thank you for the info
It would be possible to have information on these bugs (no response with the feedback, of course)
No more tooltip : No more tooltip - Microsoft Tech Community
Import password and data : Import password and other - Microsoft Tech Community
Not using sync and needing to import data (favorites, etc ...), I hope these bugs will be resolved quickly
Or how to import Favorites (without sync) ?
Thanks
Hi,
you don't need sync to import favorites.
You can import your favorites from HTML file or important favorites and other data from another browser, without having to sign into Edge or enabling sync.
for password, you also have an additional option which also works without the need for sync or sign in.
you don't need to enable any flags for this, it's currently being rolled out gradually in Canary/Dev.
if you don't have it, just wait till it becomes available automatically.
- If I could do it I wouldn't ask the question, but it doesn't work as I stated in my post
For that I also asked where was the resolution of these bugs (no answer via the feedback)
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/import-password-and-other/m-p/2219963
- > Sync for Linux
Thanks for listening to my cries ๐·°(৹˃̵﹏˂̵৹)°·๐
MissyQ wrote:Hey there, Insiders! If you are one of our Canary users, you may have spotted last week that you now have your own update page. Our Dev and Beta channel users have been seeing these update pages whenever the channels receive a major update (for our Dev users, this is weekly), and we’re excited to bring that same level of details to our Canary users.
Yeah, I think I can say for all us Canary users we been waiting for this which seems like forever! Thanks Team! Looking sooo much forward to this.
Now, how about doing a little something for the "Flags" page. Like maybe put some kind of mark on any new or changed flags you place on the flags page so that we do not have to hunt through the entire page trying to figureout if anything has been added.
Now of course you woud take the mark on the new item weekly and place on whatever new you have added. Yeah, I know sounds like it would be a pain in the behind, but the only real solution would be to place all new entries at either the bottom of the page or the top of the page. As it is now they can be found all over the page, i.e. top, bottom, middle, top of the middle, bottom of the middle.. ect.
Just my 20cents,
Dennis5mile
p.s. I've sent this in as feedback too.
MissyQ where can Canary users access the update page? Thanks!
It will get posted every friday with the update to Canary in the same manner as it does for Dev and Beta. The last one is located here on this link.
Dennis5mile
Dennis5mile Ah, got it...thank you!
