Note: This is no longer the most recent top feedback summary. You can always find the latest at https://aka.ms/MSEdgeTopFeedback.
Good day, Insiders! It’s the end of March and we have some things we’re marking Addressed today. Additionally, we provided an update this morning on our release schedule so be sure to check out the blog here for those details.
We are really excited to announce that the new tab page items we started rolling out earlier this month are now available to all in our Dev and Canary channels. This means we are marking these all as Addressed today:
Add an option to hide the Bing search bar on the new tab page
Allow the search bar in the new tab page to be configured with other search providers
Provide an option to set a custom URL for a new tab instead of showing the new tab page
If you have specific feedback around these items, please head over to the forum thread with the update from the team and give us your thoughts!
While we do still have the cookies and custom background photos feedback items listed as Planned for March, the team has been actively communicating the status of this. These are currently available for users in Canary which meets our definition of Planned for… . We will provide updates for these two once we have more information.
@Christio02 Thanks for reporting this! I've been collecting users for this specific situation. If you could, please submit feedback through the browser when this happens including all diagnostics and a screenshot of your Task Manager. This will help the team investigate. I'm going to add you to the work item so I can follow up with you once I have more info. Thanks!
For everyone else, I am currently working on getting clarifications around the NTP. I appreciate your patience while I talk with the team. I don't know when I will be able to post those details up, but I did want to ensure you knew that I didn't ghost you I'm just waiting on an update from the team myself. :)
As an FYI, I'm working on reduced hours right now to help out with my son's school work. Responses will be a little slower thanks to this, but I am sure you all are understanding how weird life is right now. :D
Missy Quarry (she/her/hers) Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
@tistou I know there is no options, that's exactly what I wrote! I've clearly written, a understanding of what has been originally said, a understanding of what has actually been implemented, and a understanding of what we want.
In short, you can only change the new tab page search box if you change the URL search box search engine. In other words, if you keep the the URL search box as the recommended default, which is Bing, you cannot change the search engine box. Example: If I switch my URL search box engine to something else besides Bing, I can change the new tab page search box.
Again, I'm just laying out the problem in its simplest form.
@MissyQ An issue that's been happening since launch, doesn't affect Google Chrome, just Edge. The on startup "continue where you left off" (edge://settings/onStartup) setting heavily conflicts with sites installed as apps.
Reproduce:
1. Open a "site installed as app" along with Edge
2. Open a few tabs in Edge (any websites)
3. Close Edge first without closing the individual tabs
4. Close the "site installed as app"
5. Reopen Edge
Issue: You'll find that all the previously open tabs are all lost, not at all what I was expecting. Hopefully the team could address this, the issue makes using "sites installed as apps" very difficult (loss of productivity) for me if I lose my open tabs in Edge every time I close it.
@longlam Thanks for bringing this up. I know this is something I have seen users complain about in the past, but digging into this it looks like it might have been addressed in the past, not recently. If you haven't already, please submit feedback including all diagnostics. It would be helpful to know what PWAs you have set up, but if you already sent it in don't worry about doing it again.
If you HAVE sent in that feedback, can you send me a private message with some text you put in the description? If you included your email, you should have received an email from the system that included a snippet of that description. This will help me find that feedback to share with the part of the team that was investigating this issue.
Missy Quarry (she/her/hers) Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
The latest Edge Beta build I received yesterday seemed to have fixed it (81.0.416.45). That said the update process did unexpectedly cause my pc to freeze up, nothing would respond, Ctrl+Alt+Delete wouldn't work either, I had to manually shut down my pc by holding down the power button. I'll submit a feedback to the team for that issue, thanks for the response!
Thanks for your continued interest and feedback! At this time, the new setting being discussed on this thread ("Search on new tabs uses search box or address bar") is the solution we are providing for this class of feedback. The linked post provides context for the solution. If you have additional feedback, we’d love to hear about it. Please be sure to also send feedback through the in-product feedback tool to ensure we hear your voice.
Missy Quarry (she/her/hers) Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
Hi, does it mean that it's closed for now to any new changes? because that's honestly not what I was expecting to happen for "changing search engine of NTP" there are so many limitations as I explained in my comments above..I just hope someone responsible for Edge NTP sees them..
@MissyQ On the latest Canary build 83.0.478.0 I'm not able to change the NTP image as custom image, nor am I able to change the search bar to a different search engine. I'm happy with Bing but if said that it has been addressed in both Canary and Dev, it should be available in the latest builds.
the fact is, ability to set custom picture on NTP background is controlled feature rollout, I don't know why Edge team don't mention this but I am testing it with different geographies and it is Not available to everyone.
