*UPDATED* Dev channel update to 88.0.705.9 is live

[josh_bodner]

Hello Insiders!  Today we’re releasing build 88.0.705.9 to the Dev channel.  This is the final build for version 88, and is what will be going out to Beta soon, give or take another small patch or two.  We’re also excited to announce the general availability of WebView2 for .NET as well as WebView2’s fixed distribution model:  https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/11/20/announcing-general-availability-of-microsoft-edge-web....  As for what’s new and exciting in this build: 

Added features: 

• *UPDATED* Added the ability to view 2 PDF pages side-by-side.  Note that this did not make it into the original .9 release.  
• Improved the History menu to be able to have an icon next to the address bar, to show all the tabs available in recently closed windows, and to be pinnable as a side pane like the recently improved Favorites menu.  For more details, see https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/improvements-to-history-in-microsoft-edge/td-p/18965.... 
• Added the ability for Edge to generate new passwords. 
• Added the ability to copy and edit passwords stored in the browser. 
• Add price comparison capabilities to the coupons flyout. 
• Added Picture in Picture support on Mac OS.  Support on other devices coming later.
• Finished rolling out the search Sidebar. 
• Enabled the creation of text notes in PDFs on non-Windows platforms.   
• Added a new management policy to Allow Vertical Tabs.  Note that updates to administrative templates or documentation may not be available yet. 
• Improved the layout of the Cookies and Site Permissions Settings. 
• Added a management policy on Mac OS to Override the Update Policy normally used on that OS.  Note that updates to administrative templates or documentation may not be available yet. 
• Enabled support for the management policies to Allow Legacy TLS Protocols in Web RTC, set a Printer Type Deny List, and change Intranet Redirect Behavior from Chromium. 

Improved reliability: 

• Fixed a crash on launch on Mac with the error message "AlertNotificationService cannot be opened because of a problem."
• Fixed a crash when navigating to different websites while certain extensions are installed. 
• Fixed a crash when using Pinterest suggestions in Collections. 
• Fixed an issue where clicking the … menu inside a collection sometimes crashes the Collections pane. 
• Fixed an issue where websites sometimes fail to sign in with an ERR_SSL_CLIENT_AUTH_CERT_NEEDED error after rebooting the device. 

Changed behavior: 

• Changed favorite folder flyouts from the Favorites Bar to no longer dismiss when opening a favorite in a new tab. 
• Fixed an issue where streaming music from Spotify when it’s installed as an app/PWA sometimes fails. 
• Fixed an issue where extension icons can’t be moved between the address bar and the … menu because the context menu option to do so is grayed out. 
• Fixed an issue where the search box on the new tab page sometimes doesn’t work after entering full screen mode. 
• Fixed an issue where autofill suggestions aren’t appearing on webpages where they should be. 
• Fixed an issue where annotations on a Web Capture sometimes get unintentionally erased. 
• Fixed an issue where certain Collections features aren’t accessible if the pane is zoomed beyond a certain level. 
• Fixed an issue where Text Notes in a read-only PDF aren’t accessible. 
• Obsoleted the management policies for Default Plugin Settings, Plugins Allowed For Urls, Plugins Blocked For Urls, and Run All Flash In Allow Mode due to the impending retirement of Flash. 

Known issues: 

• The new tab button sometimes is placed incorrectly after closing a tab.  It should still be functional. 
• Certain extensions such as the Microsoft Editor extension don’t work on Linux.  As soon as they’re installed, they crash and are disabled.  We’re currently investigating. 
• Users of certain ad blocking extensions may experience playback errors on Youtube.  As a workaround, temporarily disabling the extension should allow playback to proceed.  See https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/known-issue-adblock-causing-errors-on-youtube/m-p/14... for more details. 
• Some users are still running into an issue where all tabs and extensions immediately crash with a STATUS_INVALID_IMAGE_HASH error.  The most common cause of this error is outdated security or antivirus software from vendors like Symantec, and in those cases, updating that software will fix it. 
• Users of the Kaspersky Internet Suite who have the associated extension installed may sometimes see webpages like Gmail fail to load.  This failure is due to the main Kaspersky software being out of date, and is thus fixed by making sure the latest version is installed. 
• Some users are seeing favorites get duplicated after we made some previous fixes in that area. The most common way this is triggered is by installing the Stable channel of Edge and then signing into it with an account that has already signed into Edge before.  This issue should be reduced now that automatic deduplication has been introduced into Insider channels.  However, we’ve also seen duplication happen when running the manual deduplicator on multiple machines before either machine has a chance to fully sync its changes, so while we wait for the automatic deduplication to make it to Stable, make sure to leave plenty of time in between runs of the deduplicator. 
• After an initial fix for it recently, some users are still experiencing Edge windows becoming all black.  Opening the Browser Task Manager (keyboard shortcut is shift + esc) and killing the GPU process usually fixes it.  Note that this only appears to affect users with certain hardware and is most easily triggered by resizing an Edge window.  For users with discrete GPUs, updating graphics drivers may help. 
• Some users are seeing “wobbling” behavior when scrolling using trackpad gestures or touchscreens, where scrolling in one dimension also causes the page to subtly scroll back and forth in the other.  Note that this only affects certain websites and seems to be worse on certain devices.  This is most likely related to our ongoing work to bring scrolling back to parity with Edge Legacy’s behavior, so if this behavior is undesirable, you can temporarily turn it off by disabling the edge://flags/#edge-experimental-scrolling flag. 
• There are some issues where users with multiple audio output devices sometimes don’t get any sound from Edge.  In one case, Edge becomes muted in the Windows Volume Mixer and unmuting it fixes it.  In another, restarting the browser fixes it. 

As always, we couldn’t do this without all your valuable input! 

[#2]

@ethanmenzel@josh_bodner I'll take this a step further.  It should be easy to switch between each of the navigation focused side bars including collections, favorites, and history.  How this switch is presented in the UI I can leave to others.  My suggestion is to make the label in the upper left that today, the single word Collections, Favorites, and History, become a control with a down arrow to allow a quick switch between these three and anything else that is appropriate.

Rich

[#3]

@josh_bodner You said that you're going to release a minor update later this week, will Page View be available then? Right now, it's greyed out.

[#4]

@Chao2020 Most likely in early 2021.

[#5]

@HotCakeX Does it also fix the button not being as high as it should be? Like, if you mouse above it it doesn't react?

[#6]

@Kam Yes, it will be in that.  

[#7]

@eduardobragaxz In my Canary install, clicking the button again does close the pane, regardless of whether or not it's pinned, so if you have Canary too, you might check there to see if yours does the same.  If so, it should be in the next Dev!  

[#8]

@sudokai It looks like we've already got a bug in our database for this, so I'll make sure the owner is aware.  

[#9]

It does, that's what I'm saying. Maybe you guys should make it so that, when it's pinned, you can't close by clicking the button again.

[#10]

I guess I see it in a different way. To me, pinning it isn't setting it to a new state, you're just pinning there. It's either pinned or not. You're not setting it to be shown like that, you're just pinning it, and when it closes, it assumes you don't need it pinned anymore.

I understand what you mean, but I don't agree that it should work this way.

[#11]

@josh_bodner, maybe you should make these toolbar buttons akin to SplitButtons in WinUI. The left part of the button open it like it's pinned, and the right part, which is a down facing arrow, open it as a flyout.

[#12]

@F-Lambda 

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@F-Lambda wrote:

@HotCakeX Does it also fix the button not being as high as it should be? Like, if you mouse above it it doesn't react?

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I think so, I don't have that problem on Version 89.0.721.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit)

[#13]

@eduardobragaxz 

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@eduardobragaxz wrote:
I guess I see it in a different way. To me, pinning it isn't setting it to a new state, you're just pinning there. It's either pinned or not. You're not setting it to be shown like that, you're just pinning it, and when it closes, it assumes you don't need it pinned anymore.

I understand what you mean, but I don't agree that it should work this way.

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people requested sidebar for favorites, they did this to give us sidebar, but this isn't it, if they want to give us sidebar then we shouldn't go through all these steps to get it.

the Pin is wrong term there, it should be "convert to sidebar" instead

[#14]

@ethanmenzel 

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@ethanmenzel wrote:
If they did this for two-page PDF's then they would need a horizontal scroll bar and I really like the idea. If you want an idea of what they should really do with two-page PDF's then try it in Microsoft word 365 it is great. That is what they should be doing with two page PDF's

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Yeah having pages side by side and then still scrolling vertically, up and down, just feels weird.

[#15]

@josh_bodner How do you update already installed Version 88.0.702.0  to this one automatically? apt update doesn't work.

[#16]

@chdslv Sorry. it did update. Thanks.

[#17]

@josh_bodner 

In Linux:

There's still the search problem, SIGILL

Search the web with Bing is not enough. Search with Google is faster and has more entries. What is the possibility of including other search engines for the user to choose from, and make them default, at least on Linux?

[#18]

Search with Google has more entries...hmm in what language? English? i don't think so, that's not what I see on everyday usage of Bing vs Google

[#19]

@josh_bodner Desktop Notifications Doesn't Work

[#20]

@sudokai Looks like this will be fixed in the next Dev build.  I'll ask to make sure it's not going to make it to Beta either!  

[#21]

@chdslv Is there some problem with not being able to change the search provider?