Dev channel update to 80.0.361.5 is live

Iron Contributor

Dec 17, 2019

Great to hear another round of bugs have been squashed, let's hope you can fix the critical ones asap - I personally encounter the muted volume bug on an almost daily basis.

I personally find the yellow folders distracting, I found the white ones more in keep with the new Fluent Design Language. Can you make it an dropdown option in the Settings please?

With only 1 month until the official launch, it concerns me that parts of the browser still seem Beta and not yet RC. We all want Edge to be a Chrome killer and win back some market share from Google, but history shows us that 80% isn't enough, especially when it will be mass deployed via Windows Update.

As SysAdmin, there are a number of missing critical features that prevent me from rolling it out in my company on Jan 15th. I've had some constructive exchanges with the Edge Team and I really hope that you can include these features asap. I'm sure other IT Pros here have their own blocking points, which features are preventing you from deploying Edge?

For me, the critical ones are:

PDF features - find bar, page overview, digital signature support, advanced forms support
Missing GPOs - please replicate the options in Settings with Group Policies by default. I really need to control the following - Automatic Downloads, Motion Sensors, Clipboard Access, New Tab Page layout lockdown, Preferred Languages preloading

Is there any chance these will be included in the Jan 15 release?

Glad to hear the Edge Team all taking a well deserved break, you deserve it! Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!

thekylef
Brass Contributor
Dec 17, 2019
Tom_Fox Agree! Yellow Icons are too distracting and just look like google chrome which looks horrible.
HotCakeX
MVP
Dec 17, 2019
I agree with you, we should be able to set custom colors for folders in the favorites, yellow is a copy of Chrome.

also to have the find bar in PDF, use the shortcut CTRL + F to summon the search box at the top next to the omnibox.
- matsmcp
  Steel Contributor
  Dec 17, 2019
  HotCakeX
  
  Yellow is also the color of Edge Classic. Keeping common look
  - HotCakeX
    MVP
    Dec 18, 2019
    There is no book or rule saying the new Edge should mimic whatever old Edge did.
    
    the UI is different, it has no acrylic effect, no transparency, it's not pitch black anymore, it's gray.
    gray folders on the favorites bar were looking good, if Microsoft wanted to change something, they should make the color configurable.
- Tom_Fox
  Iron Contributor
  Dec 17, 2019
  HotCakeX
  
  That's true, but "classic" Edge has a nicer inline implementation of the Find feature, as well as other buttons missing in the current Dev release. Some are available in the Right-Click menu, but this is not obvious for most end-users.
  
  Contents Bar
  Rotate Counterclockwise button
  Fullscreen button
  Page View options
  Read Aloud button
  - HotCakeX
    MVP
    Dec 17, 2019
    Tom_Fox
    
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    Tom_Fox wrote:
    HotCakeX
    
    That's true, but "classic" Edge has a nicer inline implementation of the Find feature, as well as other buttons missing in the current Dev release. Some are available in the Right-Click menu, but this is not obvious for most end-users.
    
    Contents Bar
    Rotate Counterclockwise button
    Fullscreen button
    Page View options
    Read Aloud button
    wrote: That's true, but "classic" Edge has a nicer inline implementation of the Find feature, as well as other buttons missing in the current Dev release. Some are available in the Right-Click menu, but this is not obvious for most end-users. Contents BarRotate Counterclockwise buttonFullscreen buttonPage View optionsRead Aloud button
    
    Yes obviously PDF experience needs so much work, it's super basic at the moment
    Btw there is a hidden highlight option for PDFs that can be enabled using the flag:
    
    Enable Text Highlights for PDF
    
    in the latest canary I see Read Aloud is no longer gray but it's not working either when I try it on PDFs.
- JordanQ
  Steel Contributor
  Jan 05, 2020
  HotCakeX "Yellow is a copy of Chrome." UWP Edge and File Explorer both use yellow folders. I could just as easily say that the clear folders were a copy of Opera.
  - HotCakeX
    MVP
    Jan 05, 2020
    They aren't the same.
    top is from Edge classic, bottom is from Edge insider canary

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