Oct 15 2019 08:35 AM - edited Oct 22 2019 10:54 AM
Note: This is no longer the most recent top feedback summary. You can always find the latest at https://aka.ms/MSEdgeTopFeedback.
Hi everyone, this week’s update is a quick one. This week we’re highlighting one piece of top feedback that’s been addressed: You can now remove the Send feedback smiley button from the toolbar.
To remove it, just right click on it and choose Hide from toolbar and it will disappear from view. Once it’s gone from the tollbar, you can still find the option by opening the Settings and more (…) menu and choosing Help and feedback. You can click the Send feedback option here to open the feedback window, or you can right click on it and choose Show in toolbar to put the smiley back. And of course you can always use Alt+Shift+I to open the feedback window directly.
While this item just landed on our top feedback list last week, the feature request was not new and like many fixes and improvements we started working on it before it had enough support to be considered “top feedback”.
Here is the full updated list of top feedback:
Status |
Feedback |
On this list for |
Addressed |
Provide an option to remove the send feedback “smiley” button from the toolbar |
New! |
Planned for October |
A round of improvements to scrolling experience, with more (including performance) to come down the line |
8 weeks |
Planned for October |
Inking for PDF files |
8 weeks |
Planned for October |
Provide the ability to change the title of tiles on the new tab page |
8 weeks |
Planned for October |
Need for better handling of links when there is more than one profile |
8 weeks |
Planned for October |
Option to set a custom photo as the New Tab Page background photo |
8 weeks |
Planned for November |
Enable search in the extensions store |
8 weeks |
Under Review |
Bring the OneNote Web Clipper to the Microsoft Edge extensions store |
1 week |
Under Review |
Opening a new tab is too slow |
3 weeks |
Under Review |
Ask users if they want to close all tabs when they close a browser window |
3 weeks |
Under Review |
Support mouse gestures for common actions like navigation and tab close |
4 weeks |
Under Review |
Provide a transparent theme for the browser frame |
4 weeks |
Under Review |
Add the ability to change the location for news content on the new tab page |
6 weeks |
Under Review |
Some users are asking for a home button in Edge. Since we already have one, we could improve discoverability or just enable it by default. |
6 weeks |
Under Review |
Touchpad two-finger scrolling is sometimes triggering a right click instead |
6 weeks |
Under Review |
The address bar and its text are too big, and should be smaller like Chrome |
6 weeks |
Under Review |
Add an option to hide the Bing search bar on the new tab page |
8 weeks |
Under Review |
Allow the search bar in the new tab page to be configured with other search providers |
8 weeks |
Under Review |
Bring the tab set aside feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
8 weeks |
Under Review |
Bring the tab preview feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
8 weeks |
Under Review |
Bring the reading list feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
8 weeks |
Under Review |
Bring the Ask Cortana feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge |
8 weeks |
Under Review |
Provide an option to set a custom URL for a new tab instead of showing the new tab page |
8 weeks |
Under Review |
Update the user interface with the Fluent Design System |
8 weeks |
Under Review |
Make tabs more square and less rounded, like the current version of Microsoft Edge |
8 weeks |
Under Review |
Support themes from the Chrome Web Store |
8 weeks |
Under Review |
Allow sign-in to the browser with a Google account |
8 weeks |
Under Review |
Provide different options for sorting favorites |
8 weeks |
Under Review |
Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files |
8 weeks |
Quality Area |
Bring more extensions to the extensions store |
6 weeks |
Quality Area |
Edge should use less memory than it does |
8 weeks |
Quality Area |
Edge should use less CPU than it does |
8 weeks |
Quality Area |
Scrolling should feel smoother for web pages |
8 weeks |
Quality Area |
Scrolling should feel smoother for PDF files |
8 weeks |
Quality Area |
Update does not always work reliably |
8 weeks |
Definitions:
Addressed – Changes to address this feedback are visible to all users in the Canary and Dev channels
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
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.
Oct 22 2019 05:56 AM
I miss the web inking as well, I tried the "OneNote Web Clipper" and do not think it is as good as the Original Edge integration with OneNote. I bet not enough people use it, but for us Surface Pro users I bet the acceptance rate is a lot higher.
I'm hoping that the Web Clipper add-on is just a stepping stone to the 'full integration'. We can snag a clip without needing the extension :(
Oct 22 2019 07:33 AM
Oct 23 2019 06:08 AM
A lot of folks would disagree with you (myself included) but more importantly we shouldn't be telling others not to share the feedback they have on a post dedicated for feedback.
Oct 23 2019 10:26 AM
Oct 23 2019 10:32 AM
Oct 23 2019 01:21 PM
Oct 26 2019 05:33 AM
Please bring back support for epub reader which is one of the best I've used. Also bring the search and contents for pdf in the old edge.
Oct 26 2019 05:40 AM
@mingle105 wrote:Please bring back support for epub reader which is one of the best I've used. Also bring the search and contents for pdf in the old edge.
Epub supporting is ending in classic Edge and they're not going to add it to the new one, PDF is a better and alternative format, you can easily convert your Epub files to PDF, almost all books these days offer PDF version.
also there is already search in PDF available
Oct 27 2019 07:20 PM
@HotCakeX, EPUB and PDF are entirely different beasts. PDF is page based and includes page-based formatting, a fixed aspect ratio, etc. PDF is for printing. EPUB is flowable, like HTML, and does not have "pages" as such, fluidly changes between portrait and landscape (or any other aspect ratio). Yes, it can be printed, like a web page, but unlike in a PDF, the user can typically change the font size, background colors, etc.
Yes, you could print an EPUB, like a web page, to PDF, but because they're such different systems, that destroys all the flexibility of the original EPUB.
Oct 28 2019 12:22 AM