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?Download speed on Edge is too slow - Parallel downloading is broken
I've been testing and using this feature for as long as the new Edge has been around, without parallel downloading flag (edge://flags/#enable-parallel-downloading), the download speed is unbelievably slow, with the flag enabled, it's only slightly better. I don't know how many concurrent connections Edge makes to the download server with this flag on, but it's very broken. for example, download speed of a file in Edge is only 500 KB/s with parallel downloading on, with a download manager like Free Download Manager, the speed is 10x faster. I'm aware that this is depended on the network conditions of each user and my experience can't be universal and experienced by everyone, but the simply fact that a download manager with 6 to 8 concurrent (parallel) connections can fully utilize my Internet bandwidth, and Edge can't do this, is a problem. this is not something to be fixed with a simple browser reinstall or even related to OS. throughout the past 2 years I've done these countless times, literally. I'm sending feedback about it using the feedback button on Edge, if you're reading this and want download speed to be improved in Edge, please do the same and in the feedback URL add the link to this post for full description, thank youEdge insider Canary Imported my extensions from Edge classic
So I just fresh installed Edge insider Canary to get its new logo and it'sVersion 80.0.323.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit). during uninstall, I chose to remove all user data. after reinstall, Edge insider Imported my reading list from Edge classic and that was expected, but one thing that was strange was that it actually Imported 1 of my extensions too! ublock origins. another thing, on my previous Edge insider Canary, I had downloaded and installed ublock origins extension from Google chrome store but now that I check on my new Edge insider installation, it's downloaded from Microsoft extension store. these were nice experiences. I personally liked that Edge automatically checks my extensions and downloads them from Microsoft extension store if there is a version of it available there.
