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Re: Top Feedback Summary for June 23
MWehrstedtThey have blinders on when it comes to actual feedback - it's arbitrary to what people really want. They just want to push thru with their perceived agenda and saying that's what actual people need. I just pop in here once in a while to see what kind of screw-up they did now and just like with the extension button idiocy, they messed up once again when this tripe was not requested by their core audience. We just decided to strip out Edge and replaced it with Firefox and Chrome on our workstations and laptops - it's a small drop that they would not give a **bleep** anyway, around 2,471 combined at the moment. We are in the process of fully migrating to Chromebooks also since a couple of people who makes these decisions which includes me got sick and tired of Microsoft not listening to feedback. We are just a small school district (LAUSD) so yeah, good going guys...*golf clap*6.5KViews1like0CommentsRe: Dev channel update to 92.0.902.2 is live
The rollout of the new extension menu - ROFLMAO. Way to listen to feedback MS...If you release this feature in beta and stable - I'm ditching Edge altogether. A simple solution on implementing a flag to disable this feature to make everyone happy and you can't do it? I'd rather use Google Chrome then if you are going to ignore feedback.11KViews3likes0CommentsRe: Introducing the new Extensions menu on the toolbar
They keep saying they are looking at feedback but they have not been transparent about it. I bet my dollar they got more people complaining about this feature than people liking it. Folks at the Google Chrome community disliked the extension button as much as us but since Google actually has close to 70% market share - they can actually ignore the complaints. Ole MS doesn't have the marketshare and mindshare to pull this off. It's pretty simple on how to satisfy both parties of this debate: They can make a flag to disable this button so that extensions can still be in the overflow menu. Those that don't care or actually like the button can be left alone then. Hopefully, they come to their senses and give us an update about this because I'd rather not use the command line solution if they implement this in the stable and beta channels - I'd just go use Firefox 100% of the time.2.6KViews1like0CommentsRe: Dev channel update to 91.0.864.1 is live
I downloaded the latest Dev and Canary build to see where this browser is going and lol - still so much bloat and not enough improvements on things that were needed to be improved upon. The extension button is still there like a wart in the face of a Korean pop star...it's been a couple of months of so called feedback gathering and no options to disable it without using the disable hub command line. It must be really hard to enable a flag line for this huh? Touch and tablet mode improvements are not being given priority but a math checker needs to be forced thru quick like a vaccine? Making the text smaller in the address bar is a much wanted feature? How can you people be so tone deaf? Copying Chrome is really doing wonders to your marketshare isn't it lol?2.9KViews2likes0CommentsRe: Introducing the new Extensions menu on the toolbar
Mike Glenn Less technically oriented users will just leave it be on their toolbar and move on with their lives. If not they will look for a way to remove it or hmm try to right click and hide it *shock face* Design and Interfaces matter; Apple being the best use case for this. While being feature-heavy is fine and all, having features that really make a difference is much better. This feature is just MS capitulating to Chromium aka Google's base UI. LonesomeDrifter2 They are blindly following Chromium's set design since they need the marketshare. MS's engineers are some of the best in the world - they could have found a way to keep the legacy Edge UI and just use Chromium for its rendering engine while slowly tweaking it to keep parity with Chrome, but since they did such a terrible job at it with mindshare/marketshare...they just bit the bullet and joined Google's initiative. They are doing it again with Windows 10X copying Chrome OS since it is cannibalizing Windows' marketshare at an alarming rate. They will be slow on the uptake again judging from the way they are dealing with the feedback regarding this subject. If Microsoft is not careful on how they deal with the consumer market (they are doing a great job with the business sector) - they will become the 2nd IBM.2.8KViews1like1CommentRe: Start Microsoft Edge quickly with startup boost
This is a very useful tool for really old PCs but totally redundant for most at the moment. I had this enabled when I was still using Edge and it cut the white splash screen a couple of milliseconds. It's a Chromium issue/bug that's not been tackled - how about finding a solution for that instead of sidestepping it with this feature?6.3KViews0likes1CommentRe: Dev channel update to 91.0.838.3 is live
If the extension button/hub drives you crazy: https://www.reddit.com/r/edge/comments/l5x30y/so_you_dont_like_the_new_flyout_menus_here_is_how/ Make sure to disable startup boost btw. They haven't improved Edge in regards to touch and tablet so it's wishful thinking that you'll get them to move fast with Android Edge or Extension Button/Hub improvements. MS has never been known for being agile and good with rapid development - that's why they are losing marketshare.8.5KViews0likes2CommentsRe: Introducing the new Extensions menu on the toolbar
Mike Glenn What you've pointed out and others who were "used" to this new extension button has been rinse and repeated by those who dislike this feature. There were no significant issues with Extensions at all - why fix what isn't broken? They had bigger fish to fry like having Edge be more tablet and touch friendly. The Edge devs have "promised" a look and feel that will be independent of Chrome but it's the exact opposite - the Edge browser is starting to look more of Google Chrome than have its independent aesthetic design. Vertical tabs is putting a lipstick on a piggy - close but no cigar there IMO. It's been years since you introduced Fluent design and it's still not implemented decently in your browser and worst yet, it feels like you guys have given up and just following what Google does. What others have suggested have been implemented by Firefox - the customizable overflow menu as shown in the screenshots below are an example of what a lot of us envision this to be. For me it's not perfect - I hope I can delete the separator...but it's much better than what Edge has. I've been using Edge as my main browser since it was introduced (used Firefox, Opera and Vivaldi sparingly) but ever since they've been moving closer and closer to being just a copy of the world's most popular browser; I've been appreciating how Firefox has become.4.4KViews2likes5CommentsRe: Dev channel update to 91.0.825.0 is live
Dude...you've copied and pasted this issue with the extension button 2-3 times already in the boards. I'm pretty certain they've looked at it and know what's up. It's in testing - I for one abhor it but you have to let them finish their testing and get feedback from others. I'm pretty sure there's a majority who thinks this new feature is not good at all. They do listen to feedback - they've emailed me and a couple of people who've sent problems about scrolling in the stable, dev, and canary channels and how it's now fixed. If you can't really stand the extension button - use the stable, beta channel and Firefox for now. My usage of Firefox has increased and I'm starting to like it more than Edge at the moment.11KViews4likes1CommentRe: Dev channel update to 90.0.818.0 is live
Fixing the touchpad/touchscreen/mouse wheel scrolling really needs to be prioritized. If this issue only happens with the dev and canary builds, it's sort of understandable - but it's a problem also with the stable build. As for the extension button -- it's one of the worst implementations/ideas you guys have ever thought of. You don't need to copy everything Google does...if you want a better implementation of this idea/feature - why not look over how Mozilla does it?11KViews0likes0Comments
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