Top Feedback Summary for November 3

Microsoft

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

 

Hello, Insiders! Can you believe we’re coming up to the end of the year? We’ve got just a couple of updates this week, so let’s jump right in!

 

We’re marking Enable customers to pin Favorites menu to the side of the screen as Addressed today! If you haven’t seen it yet, William did a post that explains the updates we recently did to the favorites management experience, including the ability to pin the menu to the side of the browser! We encourage you to try it out in our Canary or Dev channel, and let the team know your thoughts about these changes over on William’s forums post.

 

Also getting an update this week is Add "text notes" feature to PDF files, users should start seeing that in our Canary channel this month. With that, we’re moving it from Planned to Planned for November. This is part of our ongoing work we’ve been doing on PDFs. A few months ago we posted our PDF Roadmap, and at the end of September we posted an update to where we are. If you haven’t read those updates yet, we highly suggest it!

 

Pst. You, over there. Yeah. Did you spot that history and open tab sync is available in your Canary or Dev channel? We’re still in the process of rolling it out, but if you see it available, we’d love to know your thoughts or any issues you spot. Click that feedback button in the top right corner, hold Alt+Shift+I on your Windows device, or head to the menu > Help and feedback > Send feedback.

 

That’s it for this week! We’ll chat at you all next week.

 

Edit: Thanks to @MarinM for catching the wrong item marked as Addressed. This has been fixed, apologies.

 

Here’s the updated list for this week:

 

Status

Feedback

On this list for

Addressed

Enable customers to pin Favorites menu to the side of the screen

6 weeks

Planned for October

(Join the discussion)

Add the ability to ink on web page content

53 weeks

Planned for November

Add "text notes" feature to PDF files

25 weeks

Planned for November

Voice search on google.com doesn’t work

27 weeks

Planned for November

Enable sync of browsing history between devices

53 weeks

Planned for November

(Join the discussion)

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

63 weeks

Planned for December

Allow more top sites on the New Tab Page

35 weeks

Planned for December

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

63 weeks

Planned

Enable kiosk mode

2 weeks

Planned

Some passwords are not saved

6 weeks

Planned

Add dictionary in PDF

10 weeks

Planned

Enable vertical tabs feature

11 weeks

Planned

Edge should respect the default PDF viewer

11 weeks

Planned

Enable customers to pin sites to Start Menu in Windows

14 weeks

Planned

Restore tabs if Edge or the OS is restarted for any reason

14 weeks

Planned

Support two-page layout in PDF reader

20 weeks

Planned

Edge launches with previous session’s tabs when “On startup” setting is set to “Open a new tab”

20 weeks

Planned

Add option to remove previous search terms from the New Tab Page’s search box auto-suggestion list 

21 weeks

Planned

Some web page fonts are blurry

26 weeks

Planned

MSA profile picture is not updating

30 weeks

Planned
(Join the discussion)

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

58 weeks

Alternative Planned
(Join the discussion)

Update the user interface with the Fluent Design System

63 weeks

In Discussion

(Join the discussion)

Add ability to close tabs via double-click

30 weeks

In Discussion
(Join the discussion)

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

63 weeks

In Discussion
(Join the discussion)

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

63 weeks

Under Review

Enable option to match Windows display language

1 week

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

Not Planned
(Read the discussion)

Provide a transparent theme for the browser frame

43 weeks

Not Planned
(Read the discussion)

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. 

 

Archive of previously addressed topics:

 

Spoiler

 

Feedback

On this list for

Addressed on

Make Edge available on Linux

(Download here)

39 weeks

Oct 20, 2020

Support themes from the Chrome Web Store
(Learn more)

60 weeks

Oct 15, 2020

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
(See the discussion)

51 weeks

Aug 11, 2020

Bring the Ask Cortana feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge
(See the alternative)

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

 

 

 

20 Replies

@MissyQI can see that the update is only available after an hour, it started on October 20. Why is there a delay?

@MissyQ 

 

Letting folks know that there is a flag in edge://flags for vertical tabs.  This flag might not be avail for everyone, but do a search in  the flags window for "vert" and if you have it, it will show up.

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This is also in Canary as well..

 

Dennis5mile

@MissyQ You said you're marking Enable customers to pin Favorites menu to the side of the screen as Addressed, but in the list you instead marked Enable customers to pin sites to Start Menu in Windows as Addressed. Which one is it?

@MarinM Maybe it's both.

@MarinM My mistake, great catch! I've fixed it, and thanked you for the catch in the edit. :D

 

Missy Quarry (she/her/hers)
Community Manager - Microsoft Edge

Happy to see the full sync is becoming available in Edge!
@MissyQ Hello, Kam again, I just now installed Canary and so far I've been kickin' the tires on it and it's great!

I'm facing a log in problem on www.onenote.com. It stuck at the continue step. The old edge has not this problem.

 

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Finally, I get this.

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@zuxuan_lin 

Since you didn't mention any browser channel/version/OS etc

I'm just gonna suggest to clear browser data and see if it helps: 

edge://settings/clearBrowserData

 

if it doesn't, try disabling all of your extensions temporarily, in case one of them is causing conflicts:

edge://extensions/

 

 

@MissyQ 

Add "text notes" feature to PDF files is my favorite feature and glad to see it soon. 

Many users asked for this feature.

@Reza_Ameri-Archived 

it's available on Edge dev and canary

 

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@HotCakeX 

True, I was referring to stable release and NOT Dev or Canary.

Many users are using Microsoft Edge as their default browser in production environment and for this reason, they won't use beta and under development version. So they have to wait for features in stable release.

Why does "Search in Sidebar" default to searching Bing news? I always end up having to click "All" to get relevant results. At first I assumed it was somehow context aware, but I've confirmed that it does a news search every time.
@MissyQ

Great work! Some more features I would really love to see:

The 'legacy edge' was really good for inking and I use it for making recorded presentations where I annotate slides (pdf or html). It would be great to bring back and extend these features. In particular:


- full screen mode with single page view and swipe left/right to change page
- a favourite pen toolbar, like that in OneNote for easily switching between colours and pen type
- a laser pointer pen style, that leaves a temporary trail as you draw with it
- add new blank page, or a 'whiteboard' button which opens up a blank page which you can switch to and from during the presentation. This could also have the option to be saved (e.g. as pdf).
- nice zoom controls, like pinch zoom, double tap to return to full page

Thanks for considering these!

Oh okay makes sense

Hello @MissyQ 

 

There's a bug in Microsoft Edge Canary Channel's Responsive Design:

 

1. Press <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>Shift</kbd> + <kbd>C</kbd>.

2. You click to undock into the separate window. 

3. In the design responsive window, the menu bar disappears. The site isn't responsive.

 

Compare the canary version

 

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to the stable version:

 

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Wait... What does <kbd> mean, @gusbemacbe?

@Kam 

 

Ah, Microsoft Editor does not support it. Check HTML kbd tag (w3schools.com)

@gusbemacebe Got it, thanks!