Microsoft Edge Kids! - Kids mode added to Edge - What an Amazing feature! (●'◡'●)
Microsoft Edge version 90.0.800.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit) introducing Kids mode which can be accessed from the browser settings: edge://settings/family you can learn all about it here in this official page a brief description: Kids Mode is a convenient browsing mode inside Microsoft Edge that’s designed for kids. With its kid-friendly features and safety guardrails in place, Kids Mode is a great place for children to safely explore the web. Kids Mode includes features like custom browser themes, kid-friendly content, browsing based on an allow list, Bing SafeSearch set to strict, and a password requirement to exit. Also, Kids Mode doesn't require a child account or profile. Currently, Kids Mode is limited to US English on Windows and MacOS. Kids mode is full screen mode, in order to exit it, kids need to have Windows Pin or Password and you can see, all the appropriate content and links are added to the home page ^^ Bonus content:New Feature in Edge Canary Version 84.0.492.0 - install sites as share target for the whole Windows
This newly added flag: Enable Share Targets Enables installed web apps to register for and receive Share requests from the Windows shell. Requires the Web App Identity Proxy functionality to be enabled as well. – Windows #edge-share-target which requires this flag to be enabled as well: Web Apps Identity Proxy Enables installed web apps to be created with modern Windows application identity for better integration with the Windows shell. – Windows #edge-webapp-identity-proxy the description of the flag is self explanatory but what it does is that when you install a social network website such as Twitter as an app in Edge, it will be added as a share target when you press Share button on Edge or anywhere on Windows 10. Twitter will be registered as a system-wide share target so any app or program in Windows 10 can share files to Twitter website. this was requested before and now implemented. thank you! this is an example of Share from Photos app and you see Twitter which is the website installed as app in Edge is a share target on the list. Keep in mind that this is the first implementation phase for this feature so it might have bugs or might not work for you at all.New significant CPU and Battery saving feature Added to Edge version 89.0.730.0
This feature is behind a flag, and just added to Microsoft Edge Version 89.0.730.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit) you can enable it using this flag: edge://flags/#intensive-wake-up-throttling Throttle Javascript timers in background When enabled this feature causes Javascript timers in background tabs to be aggressively throttled and coalesced, running no more than once per minute after a page has been backgrounded for 5 minutes or more.This is a web standards compliant feature, but it may break functionality on some websites by causing certain actions to be delayed by up to a minute. However, it results in significant CPU and battery savings when enabled. – Mac, Windows #intensive-wake-up-throttling more info Technical document this is an additional feature to the optimizations that Edge already has, or features such as sleeping tabs.New Feature for Web Capture - Subscroller area selection
Normally you can't use Web Capture or Smart Copy in Edge to capture the contents of the 2nd scrollbar, but now you can with this new feature added under this flag in Edge Version 91.0.844.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit) Subscroller area selection. When enabled, users will be able to select sections of subscrollers when using WebCapture or SmartCopy. – Mac, Windows, Linux #edge-subscroller-area-selection edge://flags/#edge-subscroller-area-selectionNew feature: Move tabs between different profile windows
This flag has been in Edge canary for some time but it started working since today's update, Edge Version 89.0.711.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit) you need to enable this flag: edge://flags/#edge-move-tabs-to-profile-window restart browser and when you right-click on a tab, you will have that option to move tab to a different profile window. of course first you have to have at least a 2nd profile in Edge for this to work. p.s the other profile doesn't need to be open or running. I'm hoping in future we will be able to use drag and drop to move tabs between 2 open Edge profile windows.New feature in Microsoft Edge: TLS Post-Quantum Confidentiality
To get familiar with it, here are 2 articles Towards Post-Quantum Cryptography in TLS https://blog.cloudflare.com/towards-post-quantum-cryptography-in-tls/ Post-quantum confidentiality for TLS https://www.imperialviolet.org/2018/04/11/pqconftls.html this feature is added to Microsoft Edge Version 82.0.437.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit) using this flag edge://flags/ TLS Post-Quantum Confidentiality This option enables a post-quantum (i.e. resistent to quantum computers) key exchange algorithm in TLS (CECPQ2). – Mac, Windows #post-quantum-cecpq2An Interesting Feature: Replacing URLs With Search Queries in Address Bar
In Microsoft Edge, there is a flag called: Query in Omnibox What it does is, basically in search results, instead of showing you an ugly long address, it shows you an easier to read text. Compare: (Query in Omnibox: Off) (Query in Omnibox: On)You can turn on Math Solver feature on-demand now
Make sure you are at least on Edge version 91.0.831.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit) and then enable this new flag: edge://flags/#edge-math-solver You can learn more about Math Solver feature here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/learn-how-to-solve-math-problems-with-math-solver-in-microsoft/m-p/2195689Some parts of the Privacy Sandbox land on Edge Canary
This flag edge://flags/#use-first-party-set which was added today to Edge Version 89.0.749.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit) it's one of many privacy-related features for Privacy Sandbox, the goal of which is to ultimately get rid of 3rd party cookies. Use First-Party Sets First-Party Sets are sets of registrable domains (or origins). The browser uses these sets to allow websites that have multiple domains to treat their related domains as if they were first-party domains. This enables less restricted cross-domain communication across all the domains in a First-Party Set. – Mac, Windows, Linux Enable domains to belong to the same first party Goal: Enable entities to declare that related domain names are owned by the same first party. Many organizations own sites across multiple domains. This can become a problem if restrictions are imposed on tracking user identity across sites that are seen as 'third-party' but actually belong to the same organization. First Party Sets aims to make the web's concept of first and third parties more closely aligned with the real world's by enabling multiple domains to declare themselves as belonging to the same first party. more info: Digging into the Privacy Sandbox (web.dev) privacycg/first-party-sets (github.com)
