Apr 08 2019 09:51 AM - edited Apr 08 2019 11:17 AM
Apr 18 2019 02:03 PM
I have attached 3 files which highlight the tab bar, address bar and fav bar for Old Edge, Chrome and New Edge.
Obviously Chrome and Old Edge look way better when considered the following:
Hopefully Microsoft can make some changes when they finally ship this off, otherwise this is a nice product
Apr 18 2019 02:44 PM
Yeah, it really really needs some transparency, acrylic and reveal effects, as well as the smooth animations that actually make sense from the old Edge, for example: the context menus had an animation coming from where the cursor actually is, not just some basic fade-in effect.
Apr 25 2019 02:49 AM
Apr 25 2019 09:24 AM
@muellech wrote:Speaking about consistency, I really dislike how the new Edge looks - it is like a Frankensteinian monster put together from Chrome and Windows 10. While the icons have been adapted to the Windows 10 look and feel, most controls have not (or only partially). Most importantly, nothing should be round, neither the tabs nor the address bar (which looks weirdly too large as well) nor the context menus.
Hear! Hear! on the controls being round. Chrome still looks like it should be on XP and now newEdge does too. And I don't want to be reminded that this newEdge is Chromium based. To me it's bad enough that Microsoft gave in, but please don't make me look at "Chrome" all the time. I hate Chrome (use oldEdge almost exclusively at home and Firefox at work).
Apr 25 2019 06:42 PM
Absolutely. Along with privacy and security, UI is one of my top concerns and interest areas for this new Edge.
May 09 2019 12:42 AM
May 09 2019 03:18 AM
May 09 2019 04:45 AM - edited May 09 2019 04:47 AM
@Elliot Kirk Which is why a "timetable" or something similar, with planned features community can vote on to speed-up the development would be great. Otherwise, everything is just a disorganized mess with people posting their ideas, not even being aware of the ideas of some others-which might be an improvement of their own-because they are too lazy to read them all.
May 09 2019 10:12 AM
May 14 2019 12:49 AM - edited May 14 2019 12:50 AM
Well, yes. But this forces you to ALWAYS choose where to save stuff. But what about when you just want it directly in Downloads? IE had a choice, as did Edge. Why couldn't they continue the trend? It's what made them different, since everyone else always force a preset--choose location or choose every time. No way to make a choice for choosing default or custom.
Or at least, that's what my preference would be. No idea about the opener of the problem.
May 14 2019 01:00 AM
May 14 2019 12:44 PM
I agree.
And I really like the old favorite button on the toolbar and it is way much better design than chrome.
It doesn't take extra height like the bookmark bar, and it saves a lot of clicks to find bookmarks from the hamburger menu.
May 14 2019 06:32 PM - edited May 14 2019 06:32 PM
@IrinaL I'm currently using the "ask where to save each file before downloading option" and I feel it's about 75% as useful as the old functionality where you can choose each time. This is because there are times where I want to save multiple things to the same location so using the Save was more convenient for those cases.
While on the subject, I've also found myself really missing the Open option as well. I didn't realize how much I used it until it was gone. I use Edge Canary for most everything but I find myself going back to Classic Edge just for this one feature. The use case for me is grading student assignments. They are all submitted online and having to download each one, then individually open each file is very time consuming. Being able to simply press a single Open button is a huge time saver. I know it doesn't sound like it but over the course of 20+ files it really adds up. I think this would be the case for anyone that has to open a lot of little files in fairly rapid succession. I realize this isn't a common scenario but for those of us that are doing this it is a major efficiency boost.
May 14 2019 06:50 PM
@IrinaL I'm currently using the "ask where to save each file before downloading" option but I'd say it's only about 75% as useful as the old Save | Save As feature. This is because I often save multiple files to the same location so the old Save was more convenient for that.
While on the subject of the old file dialog, I've found I really miss the Open option. I use the new Edge for most everything but find myself going to back to Classic for this one feature. The use case for me is grading student assignments. I realize this is a pretty niche use case but I imagine anyone that has to open lots of file in fairly rapid succession would appreciate the efficiency gain. Instead of having to download a file, then open that file, then delete the file, I just press the open button. It really speeds things up for me.