Pick up where you left off on Microsoft Edge PDF Reader
Thank you for all the love and feedback that you have shared with us as we continue our journey to become your PDF reader of choice. Reading long PDF documents is a very time consuming and tedious task we have all gone through. To make reading such documents easier we have already added ‘Read Aloud’ that lets you rest your eyes and listen to your PDF documents. We have now added another feature to make your reading experience even better by letting you pick up where you left off on the PDF documents you read in Microsoft Edge. When you reopen your PDF documents in Microsoft Edge, it will start from the position, zoom state and the layout that you were last reading it in. The feature is currently available in Microsoft Edge Canary and Dev channels and will be available by default to all users in Microsoft Edge release 95. If you prefer starting your PDF documents from the very first page every time you open the document, we have added a setting that lets you do that as well. Share your feedback with us and tell us how we can build a better PDF reader that suits your needs. Go to “…” menu > Help and feedback > Send feedback, or simply use the shortcut (Shift+Alt+i) to open the feedback tool and share your thoughts with this.Extensions Badging on the Edge Add-Ons Store
Extensions have been contributing to making browsing on edge a delightful experience for users. The Edge addons store catalogue has grown to close to 11,000 add-ons and as we continue to grow, we want to evolve and be ready for scale. This means there is more hustle and competition for extensions discoverability in the marketplace. Thus, making sure we provide the best experience to both our users and developers becomes critical for us. Towards that end, we intend to ensure users can trust the extensions they are downloading on edge and we as a marketplace, surface high quality extensions to help them achieve this. We are planning to introduce extensions badging on EAS which will encourage developers to build extensions, keeping our best practices in mind. Leading to edge extension users getting the ease to differentiate and discover these quality extensions on EAS. The Edge Addons Store is starting its experiment with extensions badges soon. And we want to iteratively build this alongside our dev community. Edge is starting with a small-scale experiment and will begin to engage with the developer community to talk through the criterion and help them get acquainted with the badging process on EAS. Please look out for more details on the extensions badging experiment from Edge! What are our principles? User Centric Objective evaluation criterion Watch out this space for more information on Badging extensions on EAS. You may also refer to our documentation for further details. PS – Badging in this case refers to visual labels, which will be shown on the extensions’ product description pages and other pages on the EAS, once they are granted to a particular extension.Partner center will stop accepting new MV2 extensions from 11th July
Hello, Edge Add-ons developers! In May 2022, Microsoft announced the timelines for embracing Manifest Version 3 (MV3) for Microsoft Edge extensions and phasing out support for Manifest Version 2 (MV2). As we move forward in this direction, the following change will come into effect starting 11 th July 2022 – All new extensions must use MV3 to be published to the Microsoft Edge Add-ons store. You can continue updating your existing MV2 extensions that are already published on the Microsoft Edge Add-ons website. This timeline is subject to change; for the latest updates, visit: Overview and timelines for migrating to MV3 Microsoft Edge Add-ons roadmap If you have any technical questions on your MV3 migration or the Microsoft Edge Add-ons ecosystem in general, you can reach out to us via our discussion forum on GitHub. If you are facing any issues on Partner Center, or the Microsoft Edge Add-ons site; or you have any suggestions for us to improve the Microsoft Edge Add-ons ecosystem; you can submit those via our GitHub developer community.Microsoft Edge Add-ons | NEW Feature to manage user reviews on your extension
Microsoft Partner Center now includes a Reviews dashboard. This feature brings a crucial change to help manage your Microsoft Edge extension product page. This update enables you to view and engage with the user reviews. You can thank your extension’s users for positive feedback or respond appropriately to any comments. Your response to a review appears under the respective review on the product detail page of your Microsoft Edge add-on. Go to Partner Center to try out the Reviews feature! Share your feedback and questions about this new feature with the Microsoft Edge Add-ons Team in the comments below or on the GitHub community's Discussion topic.What's new on Microsoft Partner Center for Edge Add-on Developers?
*Updated on 8th April 2022 to include new updates on Publish API, which is live now! Microsoft is happy to announce updates to Partner Center based on your feedback. These changes streamline the process of submitting a Microsoft Edge extension for review at the Microsoft Edge Add-ons store. Microsoft Edge Add-ons Publish API is now live! With this addition, you can integrate APIs directly into your build pipeline and deploy packages and publish updated versions without visiting the Partner Center. To learn more, you can check the below documentations: Using the Microsoft Edge Add-ons API Microsoft Edge Add-ons API Reference Microsoft Partner Center breadcrumbs: The breadcrumbs feature has been added to the Microsoft Partner Center interface. Developers can now follow their exact path while navigating Partner Center. This allows developers to: Maintain awareness of their location within Microsoft Partner Center Click on any breadcrumb to navigate back to the selected page Task Menu: The Task Menu on Microsoft Partner Center has been revamped. The Overview section of the Microsoft Edge segment lists all your extensions which are either In the Store or In draft. Clicking on an extension from this list takes you to the Extension overview page. This page includes task menu on the left showing all the sections of the selected extension – Package, Availability, Properties, Store listings, and Analytics. This enables easy navigation between the extension package upload page and other pages. It also provides a transparent view of all the sections that developers need to complete when creating a new extension. Save & Continue / Publish: The Save & Continue option has been added to the top-right corner of the extension submission workflow panel. This enables developers to add the necessary details then save and continue to the next step with one click. The Publish button is blurred to indicate that the option is not yet available. Once you have completed all the details necessary to submit your add-on for review, the Publish option becomes active. This change is also helpful when updating extensions, as you may directly publish your updates from any page. Extension overview: The Extension overview panel remains the same and the status changes from grey to green next to each section that is updated. Go to Partner Center and upload/update your extension package to try out the new changes! Share your feedback and questions on the newly available updates with us in the comments below or through the Contact Microsoft Edge Extensions support documentation.
