Top feedback summary for October 15

Microsoft

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. 

50 Replies

@HotCakeX 

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 :(

I agree with you, they should bring back the web inking.

web clipper add on is just supposed to be a solution for non-Microsoft browsers such as google chrome. Edge should have its own integrated and full featured web inking.

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.

@eduardobragaxz 

What are you referring to?
I was replying to your reply to the post quotes below. I thought that it would have post it inline with your reply, which it did not, sorry for the confusion.

"@HotCakeX, please stop asking for squared design. See where Microsoft as a whole is heading towards. The UI is consistent with new design choices Microsoft is making throughout their products."
I only said that because I thought he was referring to squares as in the tiles, with pointy edges, and not squares with rounded corners. It's useless to ask for stuff like that.
Okie I just want a nice design with Fluent design language elements (square/circular anything) and Acrylic/transparent toolbar, nothing else :)

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.

@mingle105 


@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

 

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@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.

Thanks, but I was totally aware of all that.

More info:

https://www.lifewire.com/epub-vs-pdf-3467286

https://www.sodapdf.com/blog/epub-vs-pdf-whats-the-difference/?__c=1

the truth is, it's enough that Edge insider supports just one of them, the better and more used variant, which is PDF, and since Microsoft already decided to drop Epub support, I don't see any logical reason big enough to change their mind.