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Re: New Tab Page Walkthrough
Elliot Kirk I'm liking the new tab page so far, but do have some of the same suggestions above: 1). Ability to turn off the search bar (why is it needed when the omnibox functions as the search box?). 2). Ability to turn off the news feed entirely for those times extra focus is required. and to add, unless I missed it: 3). Ability to change location of the news feed for those who live/travel abroad. I'd like to be able to click the settings gear icon and change it which is an option that was available on the old Edge new tab page. Those seem to be the basics that are missing for me at the moment. As a bonus: 4). The ability to set quick launch pages in place of "top sites." The UI is nice, but top sites is distracting whereas a minimal favorites-esque set up there would be more useful.26KViews6likes1CommentRe: Add pdf editing mode
Elliot Kirk Highlighting was a great feature in this too, but I always wished it had a "free-hand" option for documents that were older/scanned for highlighting. Text-select highlighting was great. And I second the epub function (I'll harp on this anywhere I can). Another feature that was important was in-line definitions. The old functionality of these features was perfect and a direct port of sorts would be super useful.3.7KViews9likes1CommentRe: Dubious but willing to give it a shot.
vovchyk for me, it's not the scope of data it's the depth and how they handle advertisement. Google is a bit too intimate for my tastes harvesting and storing vast quantities of the minutiae of my life. Looking at the data Google collected on me while I used Android and comparing it with the data Microsoft has on me, though I've used many more Microsoft services and hardware for far longer, there is a pretty significant difference in amount and depth. Another issue with that, and this pertains to advertisements too, is that Microsoft has always, in my experience, been much more transparent about what they're doing but Google obfuscated (though this has recently changed, too little too late for me) how, what, and how much purposefully. Which honestly, was probably unnecessary to hide, but it made me lose any trust with them. And when it comes to advertising, I don't care as long as I can turn targeted ads off, which was historically easier to do with Microsoft than Google, but that has also recently changed. No one should be making money off my body, what it likes and where it goes. If anyone were to make money off it, it should be me. Anything else is digital human trafficking, though I realize I'm probably alone on that front.2.7KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Dubious but willing to give it a shot.
athosbr99 I should have mentioned this in my reply before. Dark theme is available in the flags, and is mentioned elsewhere as coming in the future. I'll also note that I turned it on in my flags and switching between light and dark theme in Windows settings (in 19h1 insider) actually changes the browser too. Which is cool and good forward thinking with that.2.8KViews2likes1CommentAdd the epub reader from EdgeUWP to Edge Chromium.
I know this might be considered a 'niche' feature for some, as I see it's left out of a lot of the feature suggestions for the new Edge; however, alongside the other inking/reading features in old Edge, I used this feature quite frequently. It's great for students/academics. For extra context, I never purchased books from Microsoft's books section of the Microsoft Store--not one, but I definitely used epub files in Edge. Additionally, because there's no other native e-reader in Windows 10, as there is on iOS, MacOS, and most Android-based devices in some capacity, and the e-readers in the Microsoft Store are terrible, this feature is desperately needed for those who use it. What's the point of having Windows 10 devices be touch-enabled without a decent e-reader?? Frankly, this feature distinguished Edge from other browsers for me and was the only reason I kept it on my taskbar as other work that I do required the blink engine. New Edge needs to remain competitive with other browsers, and this would be one way to do it. Otherwise, a native reader separately packaged with OneDrive integration for libraries would be amazing--but I think that could usefully be done here.15KViews88likes18CommentsRe: It's not Edge if it doesn't have these features!
Add tab previews, epub, pdf, OneNote features that were built in to UWP. And yes, epub, even without the books store, because it's the only native epub reader windows has and it works way better than anything else in the Microsoft Store.12KViews18likes1CommentRe: More Customizable New Tab page
I agree that the news feed needs the option to be disabled. We also should be able to change the news feed location on the NTP like the old version (Edge UWP?). I'm in Canada and get Canadian news, but I'm from the US and I need to be able to switch between the two locations.2.2KViews0likes0Comments
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