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]

Why do you need reading list? Why not use bookmarks/favourites?

[#3]

I never see that in the Feedback Hub. In fact, the Feedback Hub is the worst. Generally, GitHub is my preferred method of providing feedback.

[#4]

Well Google Chrome has the same behaviour. It lets you use your Google account's picture or another one.

[#5]

I tend to delete files when I'm done with them lol

[#6]

but um that has 0 benefit for microsoft

[#7]

but Windows can detect when a device has a touchscreen. It already changes things like the system tray.

[#8]

there's a setting to ask you where you want to save your files :)

[#9]

@pneenkoalabear 

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@pneenkoalabear wrote:
Why do you need reading list? Why not use bookmarks/favourites?

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Reading List saves articles offline so that you can read them on the move. So, if you read something interesting on your laptop at home, you can add it to the reading list and continue reading it when you’re on the train, even without an internet connection.

When logged into a Microsoft account it also means that you can sync your Reading List to other Windows 10 devices, such as a Windows 10 Mobile, so you can read it on the move too.

[#10]

@yellowdogvn 

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@yellowdogvn wrote:
I think they should add google sign-in, just because there are many people using google account.

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I could say the same about Microsoft account or Facebook account. Facebook has 2 Billions users in the world. so should Microsoft add Facebook login to the Edge browser?

there is absolutely no need for google sign in. google users, if they don't have Microsoft account, can create one with their google account. they don't even need to create a new email address to have a Microsoft account.

Microsoft has already made it super easy for everyone to enjoy their products. 

[#11]

@pneenkoalabear 

Exactly. 

let Google first add Microsoft sign-in to their Chrome browser. I bet they don't even consider it.

[#12]

@goodddayy99 

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@goodddayy99 wrote:

@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.

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I wish it was possible to create multiple InPrivate sessions, each session separate from the others, so we could use different logins in websites without them communicating with each other. each InPrivate mode session could have a different color. blue, purple, green etc.

there are extensions that manage logins and sessions but it would be great to build this into the browser. it's not gonna make it heavy or anything, the technology is already there, just needs a little modification. 

all the tabs inside an InPrivate window would be part of the same session and share cookies but different InPrivate windows would not be able to communicate with each other and each would have separate sessions and cookies.

[#13]

@pneenkoalabear 

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@pneenkoalabear wrote:

I never see that in the Feedback Hub. In fact, the Feedback Hub is the worst. Generally, GitHub is my preferred method of providing feedback.

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I know that Feedback Hub and Github are both for Microsoft, but Github is not used mostly for feedbacks, and it only covers open source programs. Windows however is not open source, Feedback hub plays a great role in Windows insider program. I can't imagine Insider program without Feedback hub app, a place to post bugs and the app can record and allow us to recreate the problem to attach the diagnostic to the Feedback.

also now Feedback Hub app offers language translation so users with other main language than English can help translate new Windows feature texts to their own language, or fix a translation error.

[#14]

Those files should be downloaded to a temporary folder and then deleted by the system.
This saves time

[#15]

Yeah...Right.

[#16]

Yeah

[#17]

@David Rubino 

Enable Microsoft account login from the browser web page (instead of/ in addition to using  windows 10 UI ), just like chrome does for google login.

at  work all Microsoft account login is blocked by the company's group policy, and hence I am unable to use login to browser at all at my work.

[#18]

"I think they should add google sign-in, just because there are many people using google account." You can of course create a Microsoft account using your gmail account, but it will still be a Microsoft account. I think people are expecting to be able to use their Google account without creating a Microsoft account, but the issue with this request is user expectations. ie. If you allow a Google sign in, are users going to expect favourites to be synced with Google Chrome? Is that even possible?

[#19]

@AmithGowda 

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@AmithGowda wrote:

@David Rubino 

Enable Microsoft account login from the browser web page (instead of/ in addition to using  windows 10 UI ), just like chrome does for google login.

at  work all Microsoft account login is blocked by the company's group policy, and hence I am unable to use login to browser at all at my work.

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Hmm, how does one use Microsoft products and then block Microsoft access on them?!

which group policy even does that?

[#20]

@HotCakeX Not everyone likes Win10. ;)

I've been on Win7 Ultimate since it was released, and I like the ability to schedule my Windows Updates for when I know I will be asleep, and I like the colored icons in the Win7 user interface. When I did move up to Win10 (during the "free upgrade" period), Windows Update would run whenever the h*** it wanted (just because I went afk for 5 minutes did not mean I intended to be offline for 30 minutes!), which meant it was rebooting when I still had unsaved data in a program. Plus the Win10 user interface is too blocky, its icons too easily confusable for those of us with less than stellar eyesight. 

As long as I can continue to run Win7, I'll happily give up Cortana as I don't need it anyway. But please don't assume EVERYONE wants to move to Win10 for something that COULD be backported to 7 if Microsoft saw enough of a market to make it worthwhile. :)

[#21]

@JenniferB_ In Windows 10, on your update settings page, you can specify your "Active Hours" during which Windows will not update and restart.  Not sure if that option was there from day one, but it's there now.