Top Feedback Summary for May 19

Microsoft

Note: This is no longer the most recent top feedback summary. You can always find the latest at https://aka.ms/MSEdgeTopFeedback.

 

Greetings, Insiders! Welcome to Build week! There’s a lot happening on the team this week, including our third Reddit AMA. We hope you can join us in r/MicrosoftEdge on Thursday to chat with the team.

 

We have a couple of updates this week, including marking an item as Addressed. We’ve been working hard internally to improve this, but we believe to have a fix in place for Edge cannot find devices to cast media. Here’s how you can test out the fix:

  1. Update or install Edge version 84.0.512.0 or greater.
  2. Go to any site, right click, and select Cast media to device.
    1. Note: some sites override the default right-click menu. On such sites, press Alt+F > More tools > Cast media to device.
  3. The Cast tab dialog will appear prompting you to restart the browser. Select Restart.
  4. After the browser restarts, casting will be turned on after a few seconds.

Let us know how this works for you! Does this work well, is there something that can be done better? We want to know!

 

We’re also really excited to provide an update to Highlighter tool for PDF files. We’ve now got it scheduled to be in Canary come July, so we’ve moved it from Planned to Planned for July! Once we have more details around this item, you’ll see them here.

 

That’s it for this week! Keep an eye out on Twitter under the hashtag #MSBuild for all the news we’re sharing over the next couple of days. And remember to keep that feedback coming!

 

Here’s this week’s updated list:

 

Status

Feedback

On this list for

Addressed

(Learn more)

Edge cannot find devices to cast media

16 weeks

Planned for July

Highlighter tool for PDF files

13 weeks

Planned for Summer

Enable navigation of PDF files via table of contents

14 weeks

Planned for Summer

Enable sync of browsing history between devices

28 weeks

Planned

Add "text notes" feature to PDF files

2 weeks

Planned

Voice search on google.com doesn’t work

3 weeks

Planned

MSA profile picture is not updating

6 weeks

Planned

Allow more top sites on the New Tab Page

11 weeks

Planned

Make Edge available on Linux

17 weeks

Planned

Support read aloud of PDF files

17 weeks

Planned

(Join the discussion)

Add the ability to ink on web pages

29 weeks

Planned

(Join the discussion)

Provide different options for sorting favorites

39 weeks

Planned

(Learn more)

Support themes from the Chrome Web Store

39 weeks

Planned

Provide an option to prevent auto-play of video and audio when you open a website

39 weeks

In Discussion

(Join the discussion)

Mouse cursor sometimes disappears

6 weeks

In Discussion
(Join the discussion)

Ask users if they want to close all tabs when they close a browser window

34 weeks

In Discussion
(Join the discussion)

Provide a transparent theme for the browser frame

35 weeks

In Discussion
(Join the discussion)

The address bar and its text are too big, and should be smaller like Chrome

37 weeks

In Discussion
(Join the discussion)

Bring the tab set aside feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge

39 weeks

In Discussion
(Join the discussion)

Update the user interface with the Fluent Design System

39 weeks

In Discussion
(Join the discussion)

Make tabs more square and less rounded, like the current version of Microsoft Edge

39 weeks

In Discussion

(Join the discussion)

Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files

39 weeks

In Discussion

(Join the discussion)

Bring the Ask Cortana feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge

39 weeks

In Discussion

(Join the discussion)

Bring the tab preview feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge

39 weeks

Under Review

Some web page fonts are blurry

2 weeks

Under Review

Add ability to close tabs via double-click

6 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

(See the discussion)

Bring the reading list feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge

35 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. 

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:

 

Spoiler

 

Feedback

On this list for

Addressed on

Some users lose their favorites on update to Microsoft Edge

4 weeks

Apr 21, 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

 

 

 

9 Replies
Good to see that the force-dark mode is back. Thanks for that.
They really need to make turning this option on and off very easy by adding a button for it next to the feedback icon or something :\
Enable sync of browsing history between devices

I think  you should speed up the process this one. This can make you gain lot of users, because google.com can not be reached in some country.

 

hello am new to this ..Cn I ask when the Stable version will be released?

been stuck on this version for months now Version 81.0.416.77

@PKB_Bw 


@PKB_Bw wrote:

hello am new to this ..Cn I ask when the Stable version will be released?

been stuck on this version for months now Version 81.0.416.77


Hi, new version of Edge, ver 83, should be released in the next few days, because Chrome 83 was released yesterday.

@MissyQ 
34 weeks discussing if you should "Ask users if they want to close all tabs when they close a browser window" .... Which is something that MUST be there for any browser! There is nothing to discuss about it !! Any browser doesn't have this is a stupid browser, yes of course CHROME included! Which is the worst browser ever.
I'm LITERALLY waiting for this option to be added so I can move to Edge !!!

@MissyQ 

 

Always :sad: can you put Provide an option to set a custom URL for a new tab instead of showing the new tab page as "Planned" and not "Adressed" ?

 

Since it is still not implemented in Edge

In the state, this option will never be added

 

- The function to import passwords from a CSV file (as for export) had been validated, but still nothing about when this function will be implemented

 

- Some features for the favorites menu were validated since last year, but still nothing

We know it's a lot of work, but having no visual on the requests, suggestions accepted, we don't know if it's still "in progress"

 

- And some PDFs cannot be read from the browser (from some sites, forced to download them)
Possible to integrate this function ?

 

Thanks

Thank you for sharing

I also notice chat with the team is inside Reddit , couldn't we have discussion inside Microsoft platform?

For example, here in this Microsoft Tech Community, there is something called Office Hours when we could have direct discussion with product team here inside this Microsoft Tech Community.

@MissyQ 37 weeks and counting on the address bar / tab size issue. I think we've heard all there is to hear about it, there aren't any new revelations on the way. Many people like the bigger layout, and many people want it shrunk. Just a matter of personal preference for everyone. Why not have options for both a compact mode and relaxed mode and let people choose? Personally, i think it takes up too much space on my already cramped screen, i'd love a chance to shrink it down.