Inprivate mode seriously needs to have brought back the blue icon in the top left corner
One thing that the new edge is lacking and seriously needs to bring back that internet explorer and the old edge had was that in the top left corner an inprivate icon to indicate you're using inprivate browsing. The current inprivate mode looks too chrome like and is easy to mistake it for chrome. With the blue inprivate icon in the top left corner, it would give edge a sense of uniqueness from chrome and it was in both the old edge and internet explorer, it worked perfectly then and there really is no reason to not bring it back. Looking at a side by side comparison, the browser looked better when it had the blue inprivate icon when you were using inprivate modeGOOD NEWS: The new downloads UI asks to whether open or save the file before downloading it
From Edge Canary version 86.0.613.0, there is a new downloads UI which asks you to whether open, save or to save as the download before downloading it which is a great feature as the user would now get the option to use the file once and not save it. I am thankful to the Edge engineering team for implementing this feature and making it look better from what I had suggested here. The images of new Downloads UI are as follows:Suggestion: Bring the down arrow button to view the preview of all tabs back
I would like to suggest to bring the down arrow button on the right of the new tab button which has the functionality to show previews of all tabs which makes it easy to understand for which purpose the tab is there for, same like the Microsoft Edge Legacy did. If you like this suggestion, then please send feedback about it through the in-app feedback tool (Alt+Shift+I) in Microsoft Edge to make it a part of Microsoft Edge Chromium in the future.Bringing back the Fluent Design Reveal Effect feature to Microsoft Edge
About this Suggestion The Fluent Design Reveal Effect feature in Edge legacy used to show animations on hovering the cursor over and near to a button, tab and address bar and also by clicking on a button as shown in the following photos: Why am I suggesting this feature? I am suggesting this feature to come back to Edge Chromium because it used to give a very nice look and feel to Microsoft Edge and used to feel like a built-in browser for Windows 10 or maybe this time, it would be added to Microsoft Edge on all platforms. How to support this suggestion for it to become a part of Microsoft Edge If you like this suggestion, then you can send feedback about this through the in-app feedback tool (Alt+Shift+I) in Microsoft Edge by following the way given in the spoiler tag below which would give this suggestion a +1.Top Features that Microsoft Edge should learn from Vivaldi browser
I just tested the latest Vivaldi browser and I really liked its features, they are very useful and some of them even were already requested in this forum by different users. The ability to resize only the UI using a slider. (so when I installed Vivaldi, the first thing I noticed was the small UI that was similar to Google chrome and I hated it, so i went to the settings and i was impressed there was this option that let me make the UI bigger without affecting zoom level of page contents) Vivaldi has big tab previews like Edge classic and it can Also be resized using mouse, so technically not like Edge classic but better than that because user can resize the previews. a side bar that user can add any website to and use it without going to other tabs. (I added my Instagram and Twitter feeds to the side bar so i can check them while browsing other websites.) Vivaldi lets me choose different themes and colors for the browser regardless of my Windows 10 accent color, this is super helpful. The ability to move the whole tab bar area to bottom/left/right/top. it's like Windows 10 when you can put your whole Taskbar to the left/right/top/bottom. All of these customizations happen without the need for a browser restart. Websites change the color of the browser UI. going to YouTube turns the UI red, going to Twich turns the UI to purple, Amazon and IMDB make it yellow, Facebook makes it dark blue and so on. Edge has this capability but it only applies to sites that are added as app (PWAs). this needs to be the default behavior of Edge so that it will feel more real when visiting a website. also for example if there are 4 tabs open (YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, Amazon), switching to each tab also changes the UI color. in Vivaldi the default search engine is Bing which I really liked and again was impressed! Lots of mouse gestures, custom controls and everything. it's a simple looking browser but with advanced and detailed settings page. there is no useless thing in Vivaldi that I could complain about. The ability to stack up tabs to get a meaningful view of the tab bar when user has more than 30 tabs open which is very normal these days. I tested Vivaldi on Windows Sandbox because it was my first time so I played it safe but now I'm installing it directly on my computer to use it besides Edge until the new Edge has all of these super useful features. I should mention that Vivaldi does not have PDF inking or highlighting.Canary channel update to 82.0.431.0 is live + FULL list of Changes
First of all let's talk about Removed features: Developer Tools experiments Flag removed. Enables Developer Tools experiments. Use Settings panel in Developer Tools to toggle individual experiments. – Mac, Windows #enable-devtools-experiments PDF Inking functionalities still removed. [Controlled Feature Rollout] Now the New features/Changes added: New customization option for the Edge toolbar: New Share Button on the Toolbar: LINK Download settings relocated: LINK Design improvements in Edge Favorites manager: edge://favorites/ Previously they were scattered here: This update was delayed for 1 week. I hope Edge canary channel's update cycle returns to the normal periods and we see daily/nightly updates again. That's it, head over to the Official What's New Microsoft page for more info: https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/whats-newSuggestion: Ideas space in the Microsoft Edge Insider Community
I want to suggest an Ideas space inside the Microsoft Edge Insider Community where user can post an idea and others can upvote it. This will also give a good representation of the new suggestions for Microsoft Edge in the Microsoft Edge Insider Community. The Ideas space in Edge Insider Community will look the same as the Ideas space in the Community Lounge. Please upvote this Idea by clicking this link. (Note: Please don't like this post, upvote this Idea in the Ideas space in the Community Lounge by clicking the above link.)Microsoft Edge's 5th Anniversary
Today is 29th July, 2020 which is the 5th anniversary for Windows 10 and the Microsoft Edge browser. It is nice to see how this browser has evolved over these five years and the team keeps adding on great new features into the browser. I am thanking the now and former engineers, managers and others of the Microsoft Edge browser who made and are working on building new features on this browser. You are the people who make browsing the web modern and easy. You are the people who make privacy a human right. You are the people who make us more productive by adding great new features. Over the five years, you people have made my web browsing easy, simple and clear. It is nice to see you are working hard every weekday and sometimes weekends only for us and to make our lives easier. I am happy to support the Microsoft Edge team for building new features and also giving the best wishes for the future development of Microsoft Edge.
