Edge Dev 84

Edge Dev 84 available.

Update 84.0.522.5 (May 28, 2020)

Added features:

Added support for Read Aloud in PDFs.
Added support for full page translation in Immersive Reader.
Added the ability for text saved to a Collection to take you back to the location on the webpage it came from.
Added back support for the Chromium “Force Dark Mode for Web Contents” flag.
Enabled Shy UI on Mac.
Added support for the F6 key to change focus on Mac.

Improved reliability:

Fixed an issue where certain types of videos like HEVC don’t play properly.
Fixed an issue where webpages with videos sometimes hang.

Changed behavior:

Fixed an issue where attempting to save an edited PDF brings up the “Save As” dialog every time it’s saved instead of silently saving.
Fixed an issue where the Find on Page popup sometimes gets stuck and can’t be interacted with.
Fixed an issue where history entries in the Jumplist sometimes aren’t cleared after closing the browser when history is set to be cleared on close.
Fixed an issue where favorites on the Favorites Bar sometimes forget that they’re supposed to be icon only.
Fixed an issue where extensions that allow keyboard shortcuts to be set aren’t able to have those shortcuts be changed on edge://extensions/shortcuts.
Fixed an issue where autofill popups sometimes appear when they shouldn’t with incorrect suggestions.
Fixed an issue where browser profiles associated with a work or school account are sometimes unintentionally signed out or removed.
Fixed an issue on Mac where languages on the Language Settings page sometimes can’t be selected to “Offer to translate pages in this language”.
Fixed an issue where starting Read Aloud on certain pages leaves Edge in a state where Read Aloud can’t be stopped even though there’s nothing to read.

Known issues:

Tabs sometimes appear squished or too small, even when there are only a few of them. This is most often caused by clicking a link in a different program that opens a new tab in Edge, and can usually be fixed by changing the size of the tab band, for example by resizing the window.
Users of the Kaspersky Internet Suite who have the associated extension installed may sometimes see webpages like Gmail fail to load. This failure is due to the main Kaspersky software being out of date, and is thus fixed by making sure the latest version is installed.
Some users are seeing favorites get duplicated after we made some previous fixes in that area. The most common way this is triggered is by installing the Stable channel of Edge and then signing into it with an account that has already signed into Edge before. Fixing this should be easier now that the deduplicator tool is available. However, we’ve also seen duplication happen when running the deduplicator on multiple machines before either machine has a chance to fully sync its changes, so while we wait for some of the fixes we’ve made to come to Stable, make sure to leave plenty of time in between runs of the deduplicator. We hope that this will be improved now that version 81 is released to Stable.
After an initial fix for it recently, some users are still experiencing Edge windows becoming all black. Opening the Browser Task Manager (keyboard shortcut is shift + esc) and killing the GPU process usually fixes it. Note that this only appears to affect users with certain hardware and is most easily triggered by resizing an Edge window.
Some users are seeing “wobbling” behavior when scrolling using trackpad gestures or touchscreens, where scrolling in one dimension also causes the page to subtly scroll back and forth in the other. Note that this only affects certain websites and seems to be worse on certain devices. This is most likely related to our ongoing work to bring scrolling back to parity with Edge Legacy’s behavior, so if this behavior is undesirable, you can temporarily turn it off by disabling the edge://flags/#edge-experimental-scrolling flag.
There are some issues where users with multiple audio output devices sometimes don’t get any sound from Edge. In one case, Edge becomes muted in the Windows Volume Mixer and unmuting it fixes it. In another, restarting the browser fixes it.

Update 84.0.516.1 (May 19, 2020)

Added features:

Added UI to help enable media casting if users attempt to use it while it’s disabled. Note that casting is currently only supported via ChromeCast devices.
Added support for quieter notifications in edge://settings/content/notifications.
Improved the UI when picking a certificate to use for website authentication.
Added a Website Permissions Settings page for when a website wants to access serial ports.

Improved reliability:

Fixed a crash when typing in the address bar.
Fixed a crash when closing the browser.
Fixed an issue where opening an Application Guard window sometimes crashes the browser.
Fixed an issue where IE mode doesn’t work or tries to launch IE as its own window instead of inside an Edge tab.
Fixed an issue where running Edge’s installer for the same version that’s currently installed while the browser is open corrupts the installation.
Fixed an issue where favorites sometimes aren’t synced.
Improved the reliability of the account picture appearing properly next to the … menu for work and school accounts, especially after changing it.

Changed behavior:

Changed Shy UI to only invoke when the mouse is at the very top of the screen instead of just near it.
Fixed an issue where the Immersive Reader toolbar sometimes is blank.
Fixed an issue where the deletion of certain browsing data like passwords sometimes isn’t synced to other devices until Edge is restarted.
Fixed an issue where the Passwords Settings page is blank on Mac.
Changed password autofill behavior to no longer autofill passwords if there are multiple possible passwords. Instead, the correct password must be selected.
Fixed an issue where passwords can’t be copied out of Settings once they’ve been shown.
Fixed an issue where clicking in the empty space of the Downloads management page scrolls it back to the top.
Fixed an issue where clicking in the empty space of the History or Favorites management pages scrolls them back to the top.
Fixed an issue where Spellcheck sometimes flags all words as misspelled when they’re written in a language that’s different than the underlying OS language.
Improved detection of prices in foreign currencies when adding items to a Collection.
Fixed an issue where pasting content from a Collections text note with a colored background doesn’t preserve the background color wherever it’s pasted.
Improved error messaging when browser sign-in fails.

Known issues:

Tabs sometimes appear squished or too small, even when there are only a few of them. This is most often caused by clicking a link in a different program that opens a new tab in Edge, and can usually be fixed by changing the size of the tab band, for example by resizing the window.
Users of the Kaspersky Internet Suite who have the associated extension installed may sometimes see webpages like Gmail fail to load. This failure is due to the main Kaspersky software being out of date, and is thus fixed by making sure the latest version is installed.
Some users are seeing favorites get duplicated after we made some previous fixes in that area. The most common way this is triggered is by installing the Stable channel of Edge and then signing into it with an account that has already signed into Edge before. Fixing this should be easier now that the deduplicator tool is available. However, we’ve also seen duplication happen when running the deduplicator on multiple machines before either machine has a chance to fully sync its changes, so while we wait for some of the fixes we’ve made to come to Stable, make sure to leave plenty of time in between runs of the deduplicator. We hope that this will be improved now that version 81 is released to Stable.
After an initial fix for it recently, some users are still experiencing Edge windows becoming all black. Opening the Browser Task Manager (keyboard shortcut is shift + esc) and killing the GPU process usually fixes it. Note that this only appears to affect users with certain hardware and is most easily triggered by resizing an Edge window.
Some users are seeing “wobbling” behavior when scrolling using trackpad gestures or touchscreens, where scrolling in one dimension also causes the page to subtly scroll back and forth in the other. Note that this only affects certain websites and seems to be worse on certain devices. This is most likely related to our ongoing work to bring scrolling back to parity with Edge Legacy’s behavior, so if this behavior is undesirable, you can temporarily turn it off by disabling the edge://flags/#edge-experimental-scrolling flag.
There are some issues where users with multiple audio output devices sometimes don’t get any sound from Edge. In one case, Edge becomes muted in the Windows Volume Mixer and unmuting it fixes it. In another, restarting the browser fixes it.

Update 84.0.508.0 (May 12, 2020)

Added features:

Added the ability to attach text notes to specific items in a Collection, as well as the ability to change the background color for general notes.
Added extra warnings when downloading inherently dangerous file types like DLLs.

Improved reliability:

Fixed an issue where running the favorites deduplicator sometimes crashes the browser.

Changed behavior:

Fixed an issue where clearing browsing data sometimes misses some things.
Fixed an issue where the address bar on new tabs is sometimes populated with old search terms instead of being empty.
Fixed an issue where InPrivate windows are sometimes blocked for users of Family Safety even though they shouldn’t be.
Fixed an issue where credential prompts are sometimes not shown, for example if they’re initiated from within an extension instead of a webpage.
Fixed an issue where adding certain language packs to Windows causes Edge spellcheck to be disabled due to an error downloading the spellcheck files.
Fixed an issue where enabling extension sync sometimes causes extensions to no longer be able to be installed from the Chrome web store because the setting to do so inadvertently gets turned off.
Fixed an issue where extensions that have been synced from one installation to another sometimes can’t be removed from the installation they were synced to.
Fixed an issue where Read Aloud sometimes doesn’t stop when it should.
Fixed an issue where the browser profile name is sometimes inconsistent between Settings, the profile button flyout, etc.
Fixed an issue where searching for entries on the History management page sometimes messes up the page visually.
Fixed an issue where text notes in a Collection sometimes get deleted immediately after being synced or saved if they’re empty.
Fixed an issue on Mac where the Touch Bar media scrubber sometimes doesn’t appear on pages that have media.
Fixed an issue where toggling text spacing options in Immersive Reader while Line Focus mode is already active causes the current focus area to be messed up.

Known issues:

Tabs sometimes appear squished or too small, even when there are only a few of them. This is most often caused by clicking a link in a different program that opens a new tab in Edge, and can usually be fixed by changing the size of the tab band, for example by resizing the window.
Users of the Kaspersky Internet Suite who have the associated extension installed may sometimes see webpages like Gmail fail to load. This failure is due to the main Kaspersky software being out of date, and is thus fixed by making sure the latest version is installed.
Some users are seeing favorites get duplicated after we made some previous fixes in that area. The most common way this is triggered is by installing the Stable channel of Edge and then signing into it with an account that has already signed into Edge before. Fixing this should be easier now that the deduplicator tool is available. However, we’ve also seen duplication happen when running the deduplicator on multiple machines before either machine has a chance to fully sync its changes, so while we wait for some of the fixes we’ve made to come to Stable, make sure to leave plenty of time in between runs of the deduplicator. We hope that this will be improved now that version 81 is released to Stable.
After an initial fix for it recently, some users are still experiencing Edge windows becoming all black. Opening the Browser Task Manager (keyboard shortcut is shift + esc) and killing the GPU process usually fixes it. Note that this only appears to affect users with certain hardware and is most easily triggered by resizing an Edge window.
Some users are seeing “wobbling” behavior when scrolling using trackpad gestures or touchscreens, where scrolling in one dimension also causes the page to subtly scroll back and forth in the other. Note that this only affects certain websites and seems to be worse on certain devices. This is most likely related to our ongoing work to bring scrolling back to parity with Edge Legacy’s behavior, so if this behavior is undesirable, you can temporarily turn it off by disabling the edge://flags/#edge-experimental-scrolling flag.
There are some issues where users with multiple audio output devices sometimes don’t get any sound from Edge. In one case, Edge becomes muted in the Windows Volume Mixer and unmuting it fixes it. In another, restarting the browser fixes it.

Update 84.0., 502.0 (May 5, 2020)

Added features:

Added a “don’t show again” option to the warning that appears when launching Edge with Administrator privileges.
Added the ability to exit ink/highlight mode in PDFs by hitting the Esc key on the keyboard.
Added security to the saved payment cards section of Settings by requiring extra authorization before editing a saved card.
Added the ability for Windows Information Protection for extend to the Share feature.
Added a red PDF highlighter color.
Added checkboxes to the entries on the Favorites and History management pages.
Added new Read Aloud voices.

Improved reliability:

Fixed an issue where all webpages and extensions crash immediately upon load.
Fixed an issue where video on certain websites like Netflix sometimes doesn’t load properly.
Fixed an issue where viewing certain Settings pages crashes the browser.
Fixed an issue where right clicking a highlighted portion of a PDF crashes the browser.
Fixed a crash when signing into the browser.
Fixed a crash on Mac.
Fixed an issue where signing out of the browser and then attempting to sign back into the browser using the same email address fails.
Fixed an issue where exporting a Collection to Excel or Word fails for certain Collection names.

Changed behavior:

Fixed an issue where the Shy UI was too eager to deploy when the mouse was near the top of the screen.
Fixed an issue where tooltips sometimes get stuck onscreen even when the Edge window is no longer in the foreground.
Fixed an issue where autofill popups sometimes appear over website-generated popups when typing into text fields on websites.
Fixed an issue where the Feedback dialog sometimes closes unexpectedly.
Fixed an issue where websites installed as apps sometimes uninstall themselves.
Fixed an issue where subsequent web pages from the same site sometimes can’t be installed as apps once one page from a site is.
Fixed an issue where the title bar for websites installed as apps is sometimes too short.
Fixed an issue with IE mode tabs where browser dialogs to log into websites are sometimes hidden.
Fixed an issue where IE mode tabs sometimes aren’t zoomed properly.
Fixed an issue where videos sometimes appear cut off or too small in their frame.
Fixed an issue where searching on the Favorites management page sometimes doesn’t initially scroll the page to where the first entry is found.
Fixed an issue on Mac where the media controls sometimes appear on the Touch Bar on webpages where there is no controllable media playing.
Fixed an issue where attempting to delete text when editing an item in a Collection sometimes exits editing unexpectedly.
Fixed an issue with the surf game where Time Trial mode sometimes doesn’t save high scores.
Removed the back button from certain websites installed as apps.

Known issues:

Users of the Kaspersky Internet Suite who have the associated extension installed may sometimes see webpages like Gmail fail to load. This failure is due to the main Kaspersky software being out of date, and is thus fixed by making sure the latest version is installed.
Some users are seeing favorites get duplicated after we made some previous fixes in that area. The most common way this is triggered is by installing the Stable channel of Edge and then signing into it with an account that has already signed into Edge before. Fixing this should be easier now that the deduplicator tool is available. However, we’ve also seen duplication happen when running the deduplicator on multiple machines before either machine has a chance to fully sync its changes, so while we wait for some of the fixes we’ve made to come to Stable, make sure to leave plenty of time in between runs of the deduplicator. We hope that this will be improved now that version 81 is released to Stable.
After an initial fix for it recently, some users are still experiencing Edge windows becoming all black. Opening the Browser Task Manager (keyboard shortcut is shift + esc) and killing the GPU process usually fixes it. Note that this only appears to affect users with certain hardware and is most easily triggered by resizing an Edge window.
Some users are seeing “wobbling” behavior when scrolling using trackpad gestures or touchscreens, where scrolling in one dimension also causes the page to subtly scroll back and forth in the other. Note that this only affects certain websites and seems to be worse on certain devices. This is most likely related to our ongoing work to bring scrolling back to parity with Edge Legacy’s behavior, so if this behavior is undesirable, you can temporarily turn it off by disabling the edge://flags/#edge-experimental-scrolling flag.
There are some issues where users with multiple audio output devices sometimes don’t get any sound from Edge. In one case, Edge becomes muted in the Windows Volume Mixer and unmuting it fixes it. In another, restarting the browser fixes it.

Update 84.0.495.2 (April 29, 2020)

Added features:

Added the ability for Guided Switch to offer to switch to personal profiles instead of just work or school profiles.
Added a keyboard shortcut (Alt+Shift+R on Windows) to show the options bar in Immersive Reader.
Added support for SmartScreen to block potentially unwanted apps that are downloaded as ClickOnce or DirectInvoke applications.
Added the ability for developers to debug Edge instances that are running in headless mode.

Improved reliability:

Fixed an issue where right clicking the back/forward buttons to open the Travel Log crashes the browser.
Fixed an issue where clicking on the link on the History management page to clear browsing data crashes the browser.
Fixed an issue where attempting to Share multiple times in quick succession sometimes crashes the browser.
Fixed an issue where Edge installation on Mac sometimes hangs.
Fixed an issue where the first IE mode tab in a window sometimes hangs on its initial navigation.
Fixed an issue where browser sign in fails because the sign in dialog sometimes doesn’t appear.
Fixed another issue where random renderer processes sometimes have high, consistent CPU use.

Changed behavior:

Fixed an issue where pasting into text fields on webpages sometimes doesn’t work.
Fixed an issue where Edge’s Taskbar shortcut sometimes disappears.
Fixed an issue where apps appear in the … > Apps menu that shouldn’t.
Fixed an issue where the website info flyout isn’t correct in Immersive Reader.
Fixed an issue where certain address fields can’t be left empty when editing an address saved in Settings even though they should be able to be.
Fixed an issue where the on-screen keyboard sometimes dismisses other popups when it shouldn’t.
Fixed an issue where the URL shown in Immersive Reader is the webpage’s original URL instead of one specifying that reading mode is currently active.
Fixed an issue where the link to review security settings on the Sync settings page goes to the location for personal accounts even when signed into the browser with a work or school account.
Fixed an issue where Collections exported to Word sometimes don’t have the language set properly.
Fixed an issue where Guest window tabs appeared as “InPrivate” in the browser Task Manager.
Fixed an issue where the Find on Page popup sometimes doesn’t appear when using Shy UI.
Fixed an issue where the username displayed on the Privacy Settings page is sometimes a lot of 0’s.

Known issues:

Users of the Kaspersky Internet Suite who have the associated extension installed may sometimes see webpages like Gmail fail to load. This failure is due to the main Kaspersky software being out of date, and is thus fixed by making sure the latest version is installed.
Some users are seeing favorites get duplicated after we made some previous fixes in that area. The most common way this is triggered is by installing the Stable channel of Edge and then signing into it with an account that has already signed into Edge before. Fixing this should be easier now that the deduplicator tool is available. However, we’ve also seen duplication happen when running the deduplicator on multiple machines before either machine has a chance to fully sync its changes, so while we wait for some of the fixes we’ve made to come to Stable, make sure to leave plenty of time in between runs of the deduplicator. We hope that this will be improved now that version 81 is released to Stable.
After an initial fix for it recently, some users are still experiencing Edge windows becoming all black. Opening the Browser Task Manager (keyboard shortcut is shift + esc) and killing the GPU process usually fixes it. Note that this only appears to affect users with certain hardware and is most easily triggered by resizing an Edge window.
Some users are seeing “wobbling” behavior when scrolling using trackpad gestures or touchscreens, where scrolling in one dimension also causes the page to subtly scroll back and forth in the other. Note that this only affects certain websites and seems to be worse on certain devices. This is most likely related to our ongoing work to bring scrolling back to parity with Edge Legacy’s behavior, so if this behavior is undesirable, you can temporarily turn it off by disabling the edge://flags/#edge-experimental-scrolling flag.
There are some issues where users with multiple audio output devices sometimes don’t get any sound from Edge. In one case, Edge becomes muted in the Windows Volume Mixer and unmuting it fixes it. In another, restarting the browser fixes it.
At certain zoom levels, there is a noticeable line between the browser UI and the web contents.

Update 84.0.488.1 (April 21, 2020)

Added features:

Added a dropdown UI when browsing in fullscreen mode to be able to access tabs and the address bar without exiting fullscreen (unofficially referred to as Shy UI).
Added a management policy to prevent the creation of a desktop shortcut when Edge is installed.
Added messaging to inform users when the internal PDF reader is disabled via the “Always Open PDF Externally” management policy.

Improved reliability:

Fixed an issue where protected video on certain websites doesn’t work.
Fixed an issue dragging a tab out of a window sometimes crashes the browser.
Fixed an issue where opening an InPrivate window on Mac crashes the browser.
Fixed an issue where cancelling an autofill payment card authentication sometimes crashes the browser.
Fixed an issue where navigating from an IE mode website to a non-IE mode website in the same tab sometimes crashes the browser.
Fixed an issue where attempting to check for updates on edge://settings/help showed a “Could not create Component” error.
Fixed an issue where Read Aloud and Grammar Tools sometimes don’t work.
Fixed an issue where Application Guard windows sometimes fail to open on devices with low battery.
Fixed an issue where exporting a Collection to Excel sometimes fails.
Fixed an issue where importing autofill data from other browsers sometimes fails.
Fixed an issue where pinning websites to the Taskbar fails when the site’s name is too long.

Changed behavior:

Improved the number of situations where browser sign-in is supported even though the browser is running with admin privileges.
Increased the languages supported for spellchecking when using the Windows-native spellchecker.
Fixed an issue where a Jumplist is missing or incorrect after installing Edge.
Fixed an issue where password fields on webpages sometimes can’t be typed into.
Fixed an issue where icons are missing from menus.
Fixed an issue where text sometimes isn’t visible in PDFs.
Fixed an issue where the “Press F11 to exit full screen” notification sometimes appears on the wrong screen.
Fixed an issue where deleting an item in History scrolls the page back to the top.
Fixed an issue where websites that are added to Collections sometimes fail to load an accompanying image for its Collection item.
Fixed an issue where dragging and dropping items into a Collection sometimes results in images that don’t load.
Fixed an issue where some Collections UI isn’t visible when the browser is using zoom levels > 100%.
Fixed an issue on Mac where the Touch Bar media scrubber sometimes doesn’t appear on pages that have media.
Fixed an issue where the Favorites bar or find on page popup sometimes aren’t visible in the Shy UI.
Fixed an issue where items on the Downloads shelf sometimes appear highlighted even when they’re not being hovered over or clicked.
Fixed an issue where form autofill sometimes suggests incorrect card or address info when some fields of a webpage are already filled in before autofill is triggered.
Fixed an issue where the street portion of saved addresses can’t be removed when editing a saved address in Settings.
Changed Collections to use the name of the collection as the sheet name when exporting a collection to Excel.
Disabled the Pinning Wizard in guest windows.

Known issues:

Some users are seeing favorites get duplicated after we made some previous fixes in that area. The most common way this is triggered is by installing the Stable channel of Edge and then signing into it with an account that has already signed into Edge before. Fixing this should be easier now that the deduplicator tool is available. However, we’ve also seen duplication happen when running the deduplicator on multiple machines before either machine has a chance to fully sync its changes, so while we wait for some of the fixes we’ve made to come to Stable, make sure to leave plenty of time in between runs of the deduplicator. We hope that this will be improved now that version 81 is released to Stable.
After an initial fix for it recently, some users are still experiencing Edge windows becoming all black. Opening the Browser Task Manager (keyboard shortcut is shift + esc) and killing the GPU process usually fixes it. Note that this only appears to affect users with certain hardware and is most easily triggered by resizing an Edge window.
Some users are seeing “wobbling” behavior when scrolling using trackpad gestures or touchscreens, where scrolling in one dimension also causes the page to subtly scroll back and forth in the other. Note that this only affects certain websites and seems to be worse on certain devices. This is most likely related to our ongoing work to bring scrolling back to parity with Edge Legacy’s behavior, so if this behavior is undesirable, you can temporarily turn it off by disabling the edge://flags/#edge-experimental-scrolling flag.
There are some issues where users with multiple audio output devices sometimes don’t get any sound from Edge. In one case, Edge becomes muted in the Windows Volume Mixer and unmuting it fixes it. In another, restarting the browser fixes it.
At certain zoom levels, there is a noticeable line between the browser UI and the web contents.