Top feedback summary for September 17

[David Rubino]

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

Hey everyone, here is this week’s update to the top feedback list. Today I’d like to call out two topics which have been addressed:

• We fixed a bug where some website consent was being flipped upside down after switching tabs. The issue was with HTML <canvas> elements, and led to some amusing outcomes like upside down Bing maps.
• We’ve also addressed reports that the sign-in profile picture can become stale, not updating in Microsoft Edge when it’s updated on your MSA profile. This should be resolved now, and you should see profile picture updates within a day.

Thanks for all the great feedback, and do keep it coming!

Here is the updated list of top feedback:

Status	Feedback	On this list for
Addressed	Website elements are being flipped upside down when switching between tabs	1 week
Addressed	Sign-in profile picture is not always kept up to date	4 weeks
Planned for September	Show the New Tab Page in dark theme when the browser is in dark theme	4 weeks
Planned for September	Add the ability to turn off the news feed on the new tab page	4 weeks
Planned for September	Provide an option to prevent auto-play of video and audio when you open a website	4 weeks
Planned for September	A round of improvements to scrolling experience, with more (including performance) to come down the line	4 weeks
Planned for October	Inking for PDF files	4 weeks
Planned for October	Need for better handling of links when there is more than one profile	4 weeks
Planned for October	Option to set a custom photo as the New Tab Page background photo	4 weeks
Planned for October	ClickOnce deployment of Windows applications from web pages	4 weeks
Planned for November	Enable search in the extensions store	4 weeks
Under Review	Support mouse gestures for common actions like navigation and tab close	New!
Under Review	Provide a transparent theme for the browser frame	New!
Under Review	Add the ability to change the location for news content on the new tab page	2 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.	2 weeks
Under Review	Touchpad two-finger scrolling is sometimes triggering a right click instead	2 weeks
Under Review	The address bar and its text are too big, and should be smaller like Chrome	2 weeks
Under Review	Add an option to hide the Bing search bar on the new tab page	4 weeks
Under Review	Allow the search bar in the new tab page to be configured with other search providers	4 weeks
Under Review	Provide the ability to change the title of tiles on the new tab page	4 weeks
Under Review	Bring the tab set aside feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge	4 weeks
Under Review	Bring the tab preview feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge	4 weeks
Under Review	Bring the reading list feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge	4 weeks
Under Review	Bring the Ask Cortana feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge	4 weeks
Under Review	Provide an option to set a custom URL for a new tab instead of showing the new tab page	4 weeks
Under Review	Update the user interface with the Fluent Design System	4 weeks
Under Review	Make tabs more square and less rounded, like the current version of Microsoft Edge	4 weeks
Under Review	Support themes from the Chrome Web Store	4 weeks
Under Review	Allow sign-in to the browser with a Google account	4 weeks
Under Review	Provide different options for sorting favorites	4 weeks
Under Review	Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files	4 weeks
Quality Area	Bring more extensions to the extensions store	2 weeks
Quality Area	Edge should use less memory than it does	4 weeks
Quality Area	Edge should use less CPU than it does	4 weeks
Quality Area	Scrolling should feel smoother for web pages	4 weeks
Quality Area	Scrolling should feel smoother for PDF files	4 weeks
Quality Area	Update does not always work reliably	4 weeks

Definitions:

Addressed – Feedback is addressed in current Canary builds.

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. 

[#2]

@David Rubino 

Is there any news about the "under review" entries? they constitute the majority of the entries in this list and they are the most important ones as well.

the problems that are important and missing from the list:

1. when trying to print a webpage from the Reading View mode, it only shows 1 page available for print.

2. A/B testing is confusing, please consider giving all users in the same channel equal access to the features, just like Google Chrome Canary, beta etc.

3. don't add Google sign-in unless Google First adds Microsoft sign in to their Chrome browser.

[#3]

@David Rubino 

Can the edge team please make the InPrivate icon look like how it was in old edge and internet explorer by making it blue? It's more appealing and less dull if it was like how old edge and internet explorer was like.

[#4]

@David Rubino 

Still haven't even added middle-click on a favorite in a menu leaving the menu open while opening the favorited page in a background tab (like in IE, EdgeHTML Edge and Firefox) to the 'Under Review'.

I give up. If I remember I'll come back and look in 6 months.

[#5]

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@David Rubino wrote:

Hey everyone, here is this week’s update to the top feedback list. Today I’d like to call out two topics which have been addressed:

Thanks for all the great feedback, and do keep it coming!

Here is the updated list of top feedback:

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.

2 weeks

Definitions:

Addressed – Feedback is addressed in current Canary builds.

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. 

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@David Rubino 

I vote "enable it by default"   .

Dennis5mile

[#6]

@David Rubino 

I opened 3 support questions on the Enterprise board, but none of them have received a reply from your Dev Team.  Can somebody look at them and provide some feedback please?

For Enterprise use, it would be nice if most settings could be controlled by GPO.  There are some missing settings that we really want to lock down, or at least set a default for.

Nice to see the bug is fixed when quickly scrolling between Favourite folders, it now renders correctly, but the drop shadow is very strong.  Can you turn it down a bit please?

What about the lack of PDF viewer buttons? Can you at least replicate those in Edge?  Can you also add a text select mode please, this is a must for Enterprise.

+1 for blue InPrivate button, its hard to see the difference between Dark Mode and InPrivate

[#7]

@David Rubino please and pretty please, bring these on!!!

- Bring the tab set aside feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge
- Bring the tab preview feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge
- Bring the reading list feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge

[#8]

David I've posted about quite a few issues here (check my profile) but only 1 or 2 have any comment from a Microsoft employee. Is there a way yous can let us know that someone on the Edge team has actually read our feedback? The Feedback Hub in Windows 10 puts something like "We have read your piece of feedback". It would be nice to know that people on the Edge team have actually read the feedback/issue reports

[#9]

@David Rubino

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

99% of download files are used only once

[#10]

@Kiven 

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99% of download files are used only once

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By you, possibly; by me definitely not. Things like e-books, films, music which I want to download to particular places in my filing system as I will want to read, watch, listen to them more than once, make up a lot more than 1% of mine. Then there's documents like insurance documents, 3D CGI assets, research material I want to file and keep, software installer and updater files I always want to save in case of a need to re-install, re-update ... actually I always want to 'save as' apart from a few text files or pdfs which I just want to 'open'. I absolutely never just 'run'; I always 'save as', then run the downloaded and filed copy.

People are different, have different needs and preferences. Don't presume to speak for anyone but yourself.

[#11]

@HotCakeX 

"2. A/B testing is confusing, please consider giving all users in the same channel equal access to the features, just like Google Chrome Canary, beta etc."

The worst part is when you have multiple installs on the same user account and you get a different set of features on each install! I have Open Tabs sync on two of my test systems but I still don't have it on my primary system -- all the same user account, all the same Edge Canary version. Argh!

[#12]

@David Rubino 

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@David Rubino wrote:

• We’ve also addressed reports that the sign-in profile picture can become stale, not updating in Microsoft Edge when it’s updated on your MSA profile. This should be resolved now, and you should see profile picture updates within a day.

 Can I get a clarification on this setting below? So, the MSA profile picture always overrides any choice the Edge user has made: if so, why is custom image picker (image below) even available in Edge if a MSA profile picture exists?

I've used that custom image picker in Edge and that new image doesn't become my MSA profile picture. So why have the picker in Edge for users logged in with MSA accounts with pictures? Within a few hours, any selected image automatically resets back to the MSA profile picture. 

So you have this cycle of MSA profile picture exists, Edge user signs in with MSA and overrides MSA profile picture temporarily (why is that allowed?), and then Edge, within hours, resets it back to the MSA profile picture. Switch the image in Edge -> hours later, it's overridden with your MSA profile picture -> switch image in Edge -> hours later, it's overridden with your MSA profile picture.

MSA  = Microsoft Account.

Or is this due to be removed soon? 

[#13]

Probably, this is not the right place to communicate a known issue. I beg your pardon in advance.
Watching AT&T (ex DirectvNow.com) there's a problem with subtitles.
Whites stripes appear instead of text and if I tinker on it then the AT&T App Crash.
Thank you.
Edge (Chromium propelled) is the greatest innovation Win10, MS and your team could add to This OS.

Stefania

[#14]

That is for sure.
For users who prefer to save downloaded files, there is nothing need to do.
For those who don't have a 3TB disk but have a good network, there's no good choice.
They mat like to watch, read, listen online.

Not only different people, but the environment.
There are need more options.

[#15]

Hi @David Rubino 

The tab preview of the old Edge is listed in the "top feedback summary". I'd like to know if the tab preview of IE - by mouseover in the taskbar of Windows - is included in this. If not, would you please add it to the list? It was a very helpful feature of IE. Thank you!

Regards, Chris

Link to the feedback about this feauture: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Tab-preview-in-taskbar/m-p/497854

[#16]

@David Rubino 

Thanks for adding "Support mouse gestures for common actions like navigation and tab close" to the list. I hope it gets implemented soon, browsing is just not very fluid right now on a laptop. 

[#17]

@theface 

Mouse gestures, especially for laptops with two-finger touch, would be fantastic.

I'd recommend a panel in Settings where these Edge gestures can be explained and/or even customized. Discoverability is just about impossible with mouse gestures.

[#18]

A feature request from the public sector is the ability to digitally sign a pdf in Edge with a Smart Card. If the function was added to digitally sign a PDF with a Smart Card, many federal agencies wouldnt have to depend on the 3rd party application Adobe Reader for this function and could fully leverage Edge for PDFs instead. @David Rubino @josh_bodner 

[#19]

On the same count I would like a way to permanently dismiss the open file/show all bar that appears at the bottom of the screen after saving. For example: I routinely save family pictures from FB to my pictures/family album for safekeeping. I never wanna open them right away after saving though and have to dismiss the thing after each save.

[#20]

@David Rubino 

Tried to print a mileage report from Excel and ended up with a chopped up mess which was hard to decipher.