Dec 11 2019 04:12 PM
Hope you are all enjoying the latest version of Microsoft Edge (download here). Over the past few months, our team has been reading through and understanding the feedback we have received especially for the Touch Bar on Macs.
We feel that we understand the feedback and have made changes to address many of them. You can check out the latest Touch Bar experience on your Macs in the latest Canary and Developer builds.
Tab scrubber - The tab scrubber lets you skim through all your open tabs easily. You can see the tab favicons on your Touch Bar and can quickly browse through them and stop on the one you want to work on. Below are the improvements that we have made
Media scrubber - We made a few changes to the media scrubber as we received a bunch of feedback on this, considering it is the most used Touch Bar functionality.
Right-to-Left (RTL) language support - We have extended support to the RTL languages like Arabic, Hebrew etc on the touchbar.
We are not done with the improvements we have planned for the Touch Bar. In the coming releases we plan to make the following changes:
We’re listening
We love getting feedback and delivering experiences that meet all of the needs of our customers on Microsoft Edge. Please give the revamped Touch Bar experience a try and reach out to us with your feedback by joining the discussion below or by choosing the Send feedback option in Microsoft Edge.
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Dec 16 2019 08:35 PM
Thanks @HotCakeX. Please try it out and provide your feedback on the experience.
Dec 16 2019 08:36 PM
Thanks for the clarification @HotCakeX. I'll be sure to provide this feedback to the right partner team and get back on the timeline if it is already planned.
Dec 16 2019 10:45 PM
Dec 17 2019 02:13 PM - edited Dec 17 2019 02:14 PM
@Elliot Kirk This great! This could be used for the Surface Neo in 2020 for it's touchbar-like feature.
Dec 17 2019 09:00 PM
Thanks @pbilk. That's a great idea.
The Neo team is working on many such scenarios on how to best leverage the dual screen infra. We will surely share our work with them as well and pass on your feedback :)
Dec 28 2019 08:31 AM
@Elliot KirkI'd like to inform you that (it's very likely that your team already know this), please implement DRM for Netflix completely before Edge insider went release.
Currently, by pushing ctrl+alt+shift+D or ctrl+alt+shift+Q, you can see the bitrate of your playing video.
For Edge and Netflix metro app, it will be 1080p and video bitrate somewhere between 2500~8000. However, for Firefox, Chrome, and Edge insider, although it STILL CAN BE 1080p, the bitrate is anywhere from 900-2000 - abysmal, and not watchable.
Since Edge insider with chromium engine will be replacing Edge soon, please solve this (I know it's mid-low priority) before its release - or we won't have any possible way to "watch Netflix with highest bitrate possible AND be able to adjust speed(by tweaking DOM object document.querySelector('video')) on Windows PC."
Thank you, opensource and Microsoft rocks.
Jan 02 2020 09:29 PM
Thanks @Jerry_Ho. Will make sure your feedback reaches out to the relevant team and will get back once we hear back from them.
Jan 09 2020 12:27 AM
@bigboymoo @HotCakeX - So we heard back from the partner team. Installation of the Chrome theming extension will be supported starting Edge 81 (behind a flag). At the same time, they have started work on built-in theming options in Edge but that will take some time to concretize the plans.
Jan 09 2020 02:15 AM
@aditya10 wrote:@bigboymoo @HotCakeX - So we heard back from the partner team. Installation of the Chrome theming extension will be supported starting Edge 81 (behind a flag). At the same time, they have started work on built-in theming options in Edge but that will take some time to concretize the plans.
Thank you, that's awesome!
would you please mention which flag I need to enable to be able to use theme extensions?
I've been on version 81 (canary) for 3 weeks now and can't find an appropriate flag that fits the description
Jan 14 2020 03:42 PM
Hey,
I have two queries:
1. May I ask if Microsoft is contributing to the Chromium developer tools? I see Firefox have added interactive tools in the developer area to help people use features such as CSS Grid and flexbox. Are these features likely to be added here?
2. Is there a status update on level 2 of the CSS Grid specs? It looks to have stalled on the Chromium bug tracker and I really feel like level 2 support really needs to come along soon.
Thanks,
Neil
Jan 15 2020 08:09 PM
Hi @rctneil
Thanks for reaching out. Yes, Microsoft is actively contributing to the dev tools. The number of commits so far is over 300. We've contributed major accessibility fixes to the DevTools as well as 3D view tool that we're experimenting with, with loads more to come.
Not so sure about the FF interactive tools but have made sure to pass on the feedback to the right team and they will look into it.
Let me get back on #2 as soon as I hear back from the team.
Jan 15 2020 09:43 PM
Hi @HotCakeX, can you check this flag out 'msAllowThemeInstallationFromChromeStore' and let me know if it works?
Jan 16 2020 12:00 AM
@aditya10 wrote:Hi @HotCakeX, can you check this flag out 'msAllowThemeInstallationFromChromeStore' and let me know if it works?
Hi,
sorry but I can't seem to find that flag
Or maybe you meant to add it to the Target of Edge shortcut like this?
"--msAllowThemeInstallationFromChromeStore"
i also tried that but Themes from Chrome webs store still wouldn't install.
Jan 18 2020 04:52 AM
Emoji support on Touch Bar would make experience a whole lot better. @Elliot Kirk
Mar 18 2021 09:19 AM
It's funny that the biggest competitor of MacOS has the best MacOS support (excluding Safari)