Restoring extensions and the invenient experience.
Hello Everyone! How are you? You've all gone through or will go through the experience of launching a Chromium-based browser at some point (especially Edge in this case) And see that when you reinstall your extensions through the automatic process (importing from your browser or your account) You're faced with THOUSANDS of extensions in your browser, with settings for extensions or welcome or anything like that! This isn't really a problem, but it can be really inconvenient sometimes when you're typing a text or looking for something and suddenly you're moved to a new tab or something. The question is: Why not just put a floating bubble under the extensions icon warning you that "Hey you have new extensions, click here and configure it!" This could be a great idea and would aid in a smoother and smoother experience that is less invasive and clearer! But let me know, what do you think of it?UI/UX problem in Edge with RTL languages (Right to Left)
notice anything strange? the place of Edge side bar and vertical tabs is changed when you use a language in Edge that supports Right-to-left. this is very annoying. I want to use a language that supports RTL but I don't want the location of everything in Edge to change. it's not just these 2 elements, everything in Edge UI changes. the location of tabs, the address bar, favorite bar, the menu, everything. there really needs to be an option to keep Edge in Left-to-Right format (LTR) and still use any language we want in Edge, it's a must have. the location of buttons and UI are something that I'm used to, when it becomes RTL, everything goes haywire and I get lost. I'm sending this using feedback button on Edge, if you happen to be using a RTL language or know it, please try it and send a feedback from your browser too. let's get this fixed.
Build a unified Windows UI experience
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/top-feedback-summary-for-january-12/m-p/2053932 As shown in the link, the introduction of transparency effects for Microsoft Edge dominates the rankings all the year round. Obviously, users are so looking forward to acrylic and fluent design! With the continuous development of FDS, the transparency effect is no longer the focus. We know that using Navigation in XAML will no longer enable the transparency effect of the underlying window by default, and the default transparency effect will remain in the window of this layer. The difference is shown in the figure In this picture, the window title bar and toolbar of "Screenshots and Sketches" are transparent to the desktop and windows below In this screenshot of the Microsoft Store, the elements at the bottom of the window are transparent At present, it seems that the design team intends to adopt "transparency to the elements in the window" as a trend, and will not develop more transparent title bars and side bars in the future. Therefore, the focus is not on transparency, but on other areas. Microsoft Edge now gives me the feeling, as if I changed the Chrome icon to Microsoft's, and then told me, look, this is Microsoft's browser. I think this is a huge irony and tragedy for the visual perception of the Microsoft brand, which means that users cannot really recognize the work that Microsoft is doing on this browser, and-let users understand that this is a different version of Chrome Browser. Microsoft must use practical actions to reshape Microsoft's brand image. I think the core action is to use native controls, or reshape the appearance of non-native controls that look like native controls. This includes the following: 1. Forward and back buttons, refresh buttons, address bar and toolbar 2. Context menu 3. Edge's special pages, such as settings, downloads, favorites, etc. For the address bar toolbar area, I think it’s not too difficult to build the appearance with XAML (or WinUI 3). If it is difficult, it is not too difficult to make these controls look like Windows. This area should look exactly like the old version of Edge. The context menu is a place where it is easy to achieve a smooth design. I think it is nothing more than adding a transparency, adding a matte, adding a noise, adjusting the kerning and line height, and finally adjusting the edge and projection. I don't think how difficult it is, is it really difficult? Or, will you consider WinUI 3 release? Or use XAML island, just like the old version of Edge? Is this really so difficult? I can't understand why I can't do it after a year. I think any user will notice the huge difference between the sidebar of the settings page and the sidebar of XAML Navigation in "Windows Settings". I don’t want to worry about whether the highlight bar is a rounded rectangle (capsule) or a right-angled rectangle-because Both are FDS, but there is no lighting effect (CompositionLight Class), completely different spacing, inexplicable margins, lack of transparency, all of which remind users that this is a web page, not a native one. UI-based application. It seems to have nothing to do with the Windows design language-although it seems that many applications have to do this, indeed, cross-platform, Web development also meets Microsoft's strategic goals, it is really difficult to resist the temptation. Skype, Microsoft Teams, and Outlook to come,-and the latest file explorer used on Windows 10X, the design looks increasingly unrelated, each team has its own ideas, compare , The unification of macOS is simply outrageous! I implore the development team to read this article to help users build a harmonious and unified appearance, One Windows, One Microsoft https://medium.com/microsoft-design/fluent-makeover-photolab-a583d25f362b
Draggable left corner
One problem which I have with original Edge was it had only one draggable zone, which means you can't easily hide window to the right border of the screen. Chromium Edge inherited Chrome panel, which regressed from wide draggable zone to some thin pixel line with terrible user experience. You should slow down your mouse and aim cursor to drag this window. (Also, as for me this offset line looks ugly) An elegant solution for this problem I saw in the Firefox with a big (maybe too big) draggable square in the left corner. I am not sure are chromium draggable zone so irritating for me of someone else, so what you think about them?Next closing-button to move under the cursor, after closing a tab
A short narrative: You are bingeing on information on the Internet, depth-first, vising page after another, leaving a trail of 10-20 tabs on the way. Then, you are done, and now start closing the tabs. For whatever reason, you prefer mouse, start hitting those ×'es. When there are too many tabs (>6 on a 1080p monitor with 100% scaling), you can rapidly click on your mouse to close one tab after another. This is possible, because the tabs had shrunk in size to fit to the screen's width, and they grow back as much as they can as you close some tabs. This activity provides a brief moment of joy to many users I believe; it does to me at least. It's a good UX, imo. The joy ends when the number of remaining open tabs drops low enough. Then, you sadly have to hunt for the closing buttons, or switch to keyboard, rapidly click on W instead, holding CTRL. This is slightly a bad UX, imo. There are browsers that employ some neat tricks that brings the tab-closing-button of some still-open tab underneath the user's cursor. Safari is one of them, with tabs spanning always the whole window-width. Internet Explorer also is! See the animation I've prepared demonstrating this: This is persistently the good UX, and never the bad UX, so I personally would like to have it. IE's way is not the only, evident from the fact that there's the Safari. I can think of ways different from both, even. So, take this just as a sample, and perhaps find something else, better! I will be abandoning this suggestion and unsubscribing from discussion, as soon I post it. I apologize for not replying to any responses. Thank you for reading, Utkan
