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Edge Color Limitations for Workspaces

SBHarris — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 02:29:27 GMT

Earlier today, I installed the latest Edge updated and noticed that my color options for themes has been severely limited, with very poor choices.

I am a heavy user of Workspaces in Edge and rely on colors to quickly identify each workspace that I use for different projects. Previously, I had a mixture of dark and light colors assigned to different workspaces that were a quick visual identifier. To get any sort of color separation, I now need to go with the light color theme to identify my workspaces. These colors are not as distinctive for me and the dark therme colors are so close together in the color palette, there is absolutely no distinction. Additionally, the new light theme even makes the tabs within the brwser harder to differentiate or distinguish. The tab icons are too softened and difficult to discern.

While I don't mind suggestions or options for my personal settings, I do not appreciate being artificially limited to what the Microsoft design team has determined to be aesthetically pleasing. This should be a matter of choice. No one is a better expert on what works best for me than myself.

Lately, I'm noticing in multiple Microsoft applications, visual design changes are being made arbitraily that negatively impact my daily workflow, with no added benefit.

Webview2 exe missing after edge update

lttlflla — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:22:19 GMT

After the recent edge update, the webview2 exe is not updated together.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\151.0.4129.59\msedgewebview2.exe is missing.

This breaks webview2 apps on Windows.

Is there some change to location of webview2? Any new API to get the location of the new webview2, or this is a genuine bug that need to be resolved by Microsoft?

Dutch grammar option disabled in Edge Writing Assistance

Ben_L — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:03:51 GMT

I am testing Microsoft Edge Writing Assistance with Microsoft Editor enabled.

On both a clean unmanaged Windows 11 device and a managed Windows 11 device, Dutch shows Enhanced spell check as available, but the Grammar toggle remains disabled. When hovering over the Grammar toggle, Edge shows a not-allowed icon.

This does not seem to be caused by enterprise policy, because the same behavior happens on a clean device without corporate policies.

Dutch is listed by Microsoft as supporting spell check, grammar check and writing refinements in Microsoft Editor.

Can someone confirm whether Dutch grammar is currently supported in the built-in Edge Writing Assistance experience?

If it is supported, is there an additional Edge setting, policy, account requirement or language component needed to enable the Dutch Grammar toggle?

Thanks.

Enhanced Security hinders performance of WASM applications (Including Blazor)

CrdlPls — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:10:06 GMT

Hi, is there any official advice on what to do about "enhanced security" absolutely nuking performance of WASM?

These existing tickets that were closed on the AspNetCore side, and it's been many years it seems and this is still an issue? I've submitted feedback through edge on this before but I have no way of knowing if this has been answered/looked at.

We have a user who's required to have it on by policy and can't add it to the whitelist, and it's causing a pretty severe performance degradation.

It just seems odd to me that the same company can produce two tools, and one of them absolutely breaks the other with seemingly no way to manage the downside at all.

Feature Request: Add toggle to fully disable VideoOverlayToolbar (video overlay buttons)

youlinaixv — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:54:52 GMT

In recent Microsoft Edge versions, a built-in VideoOverlayToolbar appears automatically on top of web videos. It contains Picture-in-Picture, Video Enhancement, Video Summary, Video Translation buttons. Current limitations: 1. We can only disable the corresponding functions, but cannot hide these overlay buttons on video. 2. Legacy flag #edge-video-super-resolution is removed. 3. Launch parameter --disable-features=VideoOverlayToolbar no longer works on new Edge builds. Request: Add a unified switch in Edge Settings to let users completely hide this entire overlay toolbar, to avoid covering video content and improve viewing experience.

Recover to normal mode after joining Insider Programme

Dhanu950 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:35:14 GMT

How to uninstall the insider programme update and unregister from Insider Programme.

Edge beta crashes after 5 seconds on some old versions of Windows 10

Chuchmenkin — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:51:58 GMT

We have problems with Edge Beta versions 151.0.4129.15, 151.0.4129.21 and 151.0.4129.35.

On launch Microsoft Edge briefly opens and then closes (like in 5 seconds) on Windows 10 RS1/RS2/RS3. I can't reproduce problem on other versions of Windows 10, such as TH1 or RS4

Solution for PWAs not appearing as separate apps on Linux taskbars

seanthegeek — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:56:00 GMT

Hi everyone,

I recently Installed Microsoft Edge stable on Kubuntu Linux, and I ran into some problems using Progressive Web Applications (PWAs).

Launch one Edge PWA (say, Microsoft Teams). It appears normally.
Launch a second PWA (say, Microsoft Outlook). Both windows — and every PWA you launch afterward — collapse into a single taskbar group under the first PWA’s icon, identified as msedge.
Pinned PWA launchers never show as running. Pinning a running PWA window produces a generic page icon that launches the bare Edge browser when clicked.
Launching a PWA from the application menu briefly shows the launcher’s startup placeholder in the taskbar, which then disappears and is replaced by a separate, unassociated entry.

This isn’t KDE-specific. GNOME users have also reported issues. After some troubleshooting with Claude, the issues were traced to a mismatch between how the PWAs are identified in the .desktop PWA launchers created by Edge and the app ids reported to Wayland, starting in September 2025, when Wayland was used by default.

Identifier	Value	Example (Microsoft Outlook)
Window app_id (native Wayland)	msedge-_<appid>-Default	msedge-_lkkahpbimdkjdjjiijflmhaeameegbcm-Default
Desktop entry filename	msedge-<appid>-Default	msedge-lkkahpbimdkjdjjiijflmhaeameegbcm-Default
StartupWMClass= in that file	crx__<appid>	crx__lkkahpbimdkjdjjiijflmhaeameegbcm

So the solution is StartupWMClass in the .desktop launcher for the PWA to the Wayland app_id. I have a simple Bash script that will do this for all currently installed PWAs as a workaround, but the automod removed that post the last time I tried to post it.

The suggested fix for Microsoft

This should be a small change to Edge’s desktop-entry generation on Linux: write the Wayland app_id (msedge-_<appid>-<profile>) into StartupWMClass=, or better, make the window app_id match the desktop entry basename per the freedesktop convention. No compositor-side changes are needed — the verified workaround above demonstrates that.

I’ve reported this through Edge’s in-browser feedback tool (Alt+Shift+I) with the full diagnosis. If you’re affected, sending your own feedback referencing the same details is the best way to get it prioritized — the in-browser channel is what reaches the Edge team’s triage.

New Canary Edge issue

CrazyKats — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:10:54 GMT

Since the latest update to .4157 on Canary Edge the

browser window behavior has changed.

I always have 2 browsers open, Edge Canary and AOL.

I can switch easily between the 2 from the Taskbar.

Starting today if I go to AOL and then try to go

back to Canary instead of opening the whole browser

it gives me the option of going back to 2 of 3 browser

tabs I have open.

What has changed?

Edge Block/Add Site Notification - How to Disable with GPO?

finnborg — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:13:45 GMT

Hello,

I haven't been able to find answers anywhere so far to figuring this out.

Currently looking into using GPO for disabling the Block/Allow to send site notifications tabs found in Privacy, search, and services -> Site permissions -> All permissions -> Notifications.

I have been able to block to turn off notifications for all websites by default and block the "Ask before sending" notification settings in the same menu as mentioned above. I did so by creating a GPO with the following settings:

Computer Configuration -> Policies -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Edge -> Content Settings

After navigating to this folder, I opened the "Default Notification Setting" setting. Inside of it I switched it to Enabled and Don't allow any site to show Desktop notifications.

I have already looked at the "Allow notifications on specific sites" and the "Block notifications on specific sites" settings, however these just allow you to add websites that you want to block or allow that the user cannot remove. I have discovered that putting a wildcard "*" into the "Block notifications on specific sites" settings values will not allow the user to add any more sites to the list. However this still leaves the user to add any site they wish to the "Allow notifications from specific sites" setting, which is the main concern considering all sites should have notifications disabled.

Has anyone else had this problem and found a solution or workaround?

This works in Chrome, but Edge has been difficult

Thanks.

CSS scrollbars

skobes — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 02:24:09 GMT

Hi, I noticed that Edge 150.0.4078.65 on Windows 11 does not appear to render the "scrollbar-color" and "scrollbar-width" styles from the CSS scrollbars styling module. See demo page: scrollbars, where all scrollbars appear in the default style. This surprised me for a couple of reasons:

(1) "Can I Use" claims (mistakenly?) that Edge suppports this feature.

(2) Other Chromium-based browsers support this feature.

I'm curious if this is a regression, a deliberate product decision, or something we may expect to see added in the future.

Crash when submitting web page input fields with soft keyboard Enter

Chumor — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:25:54 GMT

### Summary

Microsoft Edge Canary for Android crashes when submitting web page input fields using the Android soft keyboard Enter key.

GitHub search is one stable reproduction case, but this is not GitHub-specific. I have also reproduced similar crashes on other websites with text input/search fields.

### Environment

- App: Microsoft Edge Canary for Android

- Package: `com.microsoft.emmx.canary`

- Version: `152.0.4142.0`

- Version code: `414200023`

- Device: vivo V2417A

- Android SDK: 36

- ABI: arm64-v8a

### Reproduction case

1. Open Microsoft Edge Canary on Android.

2. Navigate to `https://github.com/`.

3. Tap the GitHub search box.

4. Type any text.

5. Press Enter on the Android soft keyboard.

### Expected behavior

The input/search action should be submitted normally.

### Actual behavior

Edge Canary crashes immediately after pressing Enter.

### Scope

This does not appear to be specific to GitHub. The same type of crash can also be triggered on other websites when submitting text input/search fields using the Android soft keyboard Enter key.

GitHub is used here as a minimal stable repro because it is easy to test.

### Crash information

Exception:

```text

java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index 24 out of bounds for length 0

```

Relevant stack trace:

```text

java.util.ArrayList.get(ArrayList.java:434)

android.view.ViewGroup.getAndVerifyPreorderedView(ViewGroup.java:3873)

android.view.ViewGroup.gatherTransparentRegion(ViewGroup.java:7438)

android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:5207)

android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(...)

```

### Notes

- Reproduced directly on the Android phone.

- Trigger appears related to submitting web page input/search fields via the Android soft keyboard Enter key.

Text annotations disappear if saved while the text box is still focused in Edge Screenshot editor

EDGEUSER989898 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:09:05 GMT

Hi Edge team,

I found a reproducible issue in the built-in Screenshot feature in Microsoft Edge.

When I add a text annotation to a screenshot using the Text tool, the annotation disappears from the saved image if I click Save while the text box is still focused. The text is only included in the final image if I manually click outside the text box first.

Steps to reproduce:

Step 1: Open Microsoft Edge.

Step 2: Use the built-in Screenshot feature to take a screenshot.

Step 3: In the Screenshot editor, select the Text tool.

Step 4: Type any text annotation on the screenshot.

Step 5: Without clicking outside the text box, click Save.

Step 6: Open the saved image.

Expected result:

The text annotation should be automatically committed and merged into the screenshot when clicking Save, even if the text box is still focused.

Actual result:

The active text annotation is not merged into the final image. The saved screenshot does not contain the text annotation, and the text is silently lost.

Impact:

This can cause users to lose important notes or ideas when using the Screenshot feature for documentation, study notes, bug reports, or productivity workflows. Since the screenshot appears to save normally, users may not notice that the annotation is missing until later.

Suggested fix:

When the user clicks Save, Edge should automatically commit any active text box before exporting the screenshot.

Environment:

Microsoft Edge version: 150.0.4078.48 Official build

Channel: Stable

Operating system: Windows 11

Workaround for edge://flags/#edge-new-pdf-viewer but the New PDF View showing blank pages

ctedesco3307 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:46:04 GMT

Hello All -we use Microsoft edge to view PDFs of our vendors invoices. We found that with one vendor the invoices were appearing as a blank page in the browser, I did my research and found it was a known bug with edge for pdf's with a certain logo type or watermark in the header...something to that effect which made sense the way the invoices looked. The fix for this was to Disable the New PDF View option in flags which worked up until now where they don't allow Disabling of that anymore. Since the bug is clearly not fixed, is there another workaround I can supply to the users other then to use another browser. Additionally is this bug officially logged with Microsoft and is there a reference or issue number I can follow for resolution?

Thanks in advance

Can't see 'line focus' option

NiallASD — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:30:10 GMT

Hi all,

I find the fade of the background in Edge frustrating as it dims the images and wanted to remove the fade (or make the images remain in focus).

I thought maybe the 'line focus' option would help, but I can't find it in my browser.

I click 'reading mode (F9)', but see no option for 'reading preferences' in the top bar - instead I see what I've attached.

I'm using Version 150.0.4078.48 (Official build) (64-bit).

Can anyone please help?

Back Button in MS Edge

flash_24_1960 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:05:44 GMT

How can you get rid of that "GO BACK" button in the upper left corner in MS Edge? It covers up almost all menu buttons on websites,

Thanks

Bug Report: Extensions info page opens links twice

Butterfly_Hana — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:18:58 GMT

Version 149.0.4022.98 (Official build) (64-bit)

Issue: 1. Go to any extension installed in your browser

2. Click on View in Microsoft Edge Add-ons Store, or Open extension website

3. It opens the link twice when it shouldn't

Stop requirement to sign in after screen timeout Windows 11

VincentMT — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:16:51 GMT

Every time my screen has a timeout, I have to sign in again.

This setting can be found in:

Accounts > Sign-In options > Additional settings > "If you've been away, when should Windows require you to sign in again"?
This setting is set to "Every time", but the listbox is disabled. How do I enable it?

On the "Sign-In options screen" there is a message: Some of these setings are managed by your organisation.

I am working in a domain, this is a work computer.

Sign in error

Dennis5mile — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:01:44 GMT

Interesting this morning. Trying to sign in from main community page and this is what I get,

Only way to sign in is to start a discussion. So here we are... lol

Dennis5mile

Onedrive shortcuts in explorer not working (2 accounts)

VincentMT — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:37:41 GMT

Hi,

yesterday I reinstalled Windows 11. I had 2 onedrive accounts linked to my PC: my personal one and the one from my work.
Both onedrives synced fine.
All of a sudden, the 2 shortcuts in Windows Explorer no longer work: if you click on them , nothing happens.

I found many topics online, I was hoping this bug would be fixed by now. So how can it be fixed, with an official Microsoft solution (preferrably not with any vague registry changes)?

I already
-reset onedrive
-reinstalled onedrive
-unlinked both accouts + relinked both accounts: the icons disappear, and reappear, but they still don't work.

Thanks.