Edge Dev 85

Edge Dev 85 available.

Update 85.0.564.8 (July 15, 2020)

This is the final build for major version 85, so expect it to be coming to Beta soon, and also possibly getting a few smaller fixes over the next week. On the communications front, we’ve got a few things to point out:

We’re experiencing some problems with our Welcome page, so you may not see it after you receive your Dev channel update.
We posted an article on the forums that outlines an expanded set of devices that will be soon or have already received the new Microsoft Edge through Windows Update. This is particularly relevant for education or enterprise devices that aren’t getting their updates managed by an IT admin.
Next, we’ve got an overview of how our new Password Monitor feature works. This feature is being rolled out via our experimentation platform, so some users may not see it yet.
Finally, we’ve also got a blog post that provides a first look at our new Storage Access API. This will be of interest to web developers who want to provide their content across various websites that they may not own.

On the product side, here’s all that’s worth mentioning in terms of features and fixes this week:

Added features:

Added a button to the PDF toolbar for highlighting text.
Added the ability to undo certain actions in Collections.
Added the ability to reorder the extension icons on the toolbar using a keyboard shortcut (Alt + Shift + arrows).
Added an option to the … menu for each item that appears on the Downloads shelf to report it as a safe or unsafe file (which option appears is dependent on SmartScreen’s determination of the file’s safety).
Added the ability to import certain settings and cookies from Internet Explorer.
Added a management policy to Exempt Domain File Type Pairs From File Type Download Warnings. Note that Administrative Templates will come later.
Added a management policy to control New Tab Page Allowed Background Types. Note that Administrative Templates will come later.
Added a management policy to control pre-rendering of the new tab page. Note that administrative templates will come later.
Enabled support for the Chromium management policy for Intensive Wake Up Throttling.
Added support for the Chromium management policy to Auto Launch Protocols From Origins, which allows admins to define a list of protocols that can launch an external application from listed origins without a prompt.
Added a feature to Kiosk Mode to close the browser when it’s idle (with the time limit being adjustable).
Added an alert to the … menu of installed websites and apps when Edge has an update ready to be installed.

Improved reliability:

Fixed a crash when closing the browser after creating a new profile.
Fixed an issue where opening a tab in IE mode sometimes crashes the browser.
Fixed an issue where signing into the browser sometimes crashes the browser.
Fixed an issue where moving a tab when it has the search sidebar open sometimes crashes the sidebar.
Fixed an issue where attempting to print a PDF sometimes crashes the tab.
Clicking links from external applications while Edge is waiting to restart to apply an update sometimes results in those links not loading properly.
Fixed an issue where the Kindle reader website doesn’t load.
Fixed an issue where attempting to share video, such as in a Microsoft Teams call, sometimes fails, and the recipient only sees a blank screen.
Fixed an issue on Mac where the Sidebar Search option appears to be available but doesn’t do anything.
Fixed an issue where pasting content into a Collection sometimes fails.
Fixed an issue where pasting content into a text note in a Collection sometimes fails.

Changed behavior:

Changed the PDF reader to no longer prompt where to save an edited PDF every time it’s saved.
Fixed an issue where data imported from other browsers during the first run experience sometimes isn’t deleted properly if the browser is closed before the first run experience is completed.
Fixed an issue where the top border of the window can’t be used to resize it.
Fixed an issue where the Pull To Refresh flag from upstream Chromium disappeared.
Fixed an issue where clicking on the Switch button in the Guided Switch dialog sometimes does nothing.
Fixed an issue where pinning an Edge shortcut to a specific profile or website to the Taskbar sometimes results in that shortcut not opening to the correct profile or website.
Fixed an issue where pages sometimes try to translate into the same language they’re already in.
Fixed an issue where pages are sometimes offered to be translated from random languages into the language they’re already in.
Fixed an issue where browser profiles that aren’t signed in with work or school accounts sometimes incorrectly get Information Protection applied to them when another profile in the browser is signed in with a work or school account that has Information Protection applied to it.
Fixed an issue where Immersive Reader is no longer available on certain webpages.
Fixed an issue where the undo dialog when deleting a saved password from Settings doesn’t appear.
Fixed an issue where the PDF toolbar sometimes doesn’t appear when it should.
Improved the number of websites where Collections can retrieve an image for a website added to a Collection.
Fixed an issue where the feedback dialog sometimes appears too big or cut off.
Improved the performance of Edge updates that are manually triggered by viewing edge://settings/help.
Improved the performance of clearing browsing data.
Removed the Network Prediction setting.
Removed the ability to search using the sidebar in PDF files because it is not functional.

Known issues:

Attempting to watch video in fullscreen will sometimes not work properly. Instead of showing the video fullscreen, it will blow up or zoom the video to the size of the browser window. This issue affects all Chromium-based browsers.
Users of certain ad blocking extensions may experience playback errors on Youtube. As a workaround, temporarily disabling the extension should allow playback to proceed.
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.
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. For users with discrete GPUs, updating graphics drivers may help.
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 85.0.552.1 (June 24, 2020)

Added features:

Added a New Tab Page Search Box management policy. Administrative Template updates to come later.
Added support for the Auto Open Allowed For URLs management policy from upstream Chromium.
Added support for the Auto Open File Types management policy from upstream Chromium.

Improved reliability:

Fixed an issue where the browser sometimes does not open.
Fixed a crash on startup.
Fixed a crash when printing.
Fixed an issue where opening the Read Aloud voice options list crashes the browser.
Fixed an issue on Mac where entering fullscreen mode in an installed app or website crashes the browser.
Fixed a crash when importing data from other browsers.
Fixed an issue where certain 4K video content, such as that encoded using HEVC, doesn’t play properly.
Improved the reliability of importing passwords from other browsers.
Fixed an issue where adding items to a Collection sometimes fails, and instead the loading spinner is shown indefinitely.

Changed behavior:

Fixed an issue where the flag that controlled the ability to use the Block option in website Autoplay settings disappeared.
Fixed an issue where Edge users who are signed into Windows with a work or school account sometimes don’t get automatically signed into the browser with that account, which can lead to sync errors.
Fixed an issue where PWAs or websites installed as apps sometimes have consistent GPU use even when idle.
Fixed an issue where icons in some menus like the … menu are the wrong size.
Fixed an issue where the New Tab page from Edge Legacy sometimes opens after an Edge update instead of the correct page.
Fixed an issue where system notifications from websites sometimes stay onscreen indefinitely.
Fixed an issue where the Downloads management page shows a message that a file is successfully deleted even when the deletion fails.
Fixed an issue where autofill sometimes incorrectly suggests credentials to use in forms on websites that have never been visited before.
Fixed an issue where autofill sometimes incorrectly suggests passwords in fields on websites that aren’t asking for a password.
Fixed an issue where the Windows Title Bar buttons sometimes appeared in a different color than the rest of the window’s title bar.
Fixed an issue on Mac where opening flyouts like the Add a Favorite flyout in fullscreen mode results in the flyout appearing cut off or incomplete.
Fixed an issue where Edge is sometimes pinned to the Taskbar more than once on older versions of Windows.
Fixed an issue where the Collections pane sometimes stays open when opening an IE mode tab.
Fixed an issue where attempting to use the Audit tool in the F12 Dev Tools sometimes fails by hanging on start.
Obsoleted the Enable Domain Actions Download management policy.

Known issues:

Users of certain ad blocking extensions may experience playback errors on Youtube. As a workaround, temporarily disabling the extension should allow playback to proceed.
Clicking links from external applications while Edge is waiting to restart to apply an update sometimes results in those links not loading properly. The workaround is just to restart Edge to apply the update, and this should be fixed for users who have taken an update in the past week, but we’re keeping it in the known issues category this week just in case some users didn’t get last week’s update.
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.
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. For users with discrete GPUs, updating graphics drivers may help.
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 85.0.538.0 (June 10, 2020)

Added features:

Added more languages that are supported for translating page content.
Added support for the TLS Cipher Suite Deny List management policy. Updated Administrative Templates to come later.
Added the Win HTTP Proxy Resolver Enabled management policy to control how Microsoft Edge interacts with the Windows proxy resolver. Note that this policy is already deprecated, and Administrative Templates will come later.

Improved reliability:

Fixed an issue where opening an InPrivate or Guest window sometimes crashes the browser.
Fixed an issue where opening a PDF sometimes fails.
Fixed an issue on Mac where using the Touchbar when video is playing sometimes crashes the webpage.
Fixed a crash when using Collections.
Fixed an issue where uninstalling a website installed as an app sometimes fails.
Fixed an issue where importing passwords from another browser sometimes fails.

Changed behavior:

Fixed an issue where the mouse sometimes disappears.
Fixed an issue where audio sometimes doesn’t work when using certain Bluetooth speakers.
Fixed an issue on Mac where users signed into the browser with work or school accounts sometimes see failures with sync or browser sign-in due to the browser thinking the device isn’t properly enrolled with management software even though it is.
Fixed an issue on Mac where the Touchbar sometimes doesn’t show the proper video controls when playing multiple videos in a row.
Fixed an issue where downloads sometimes aren’t shown on the Downloads management page when Smartscreen actions are taken on downloaded files.
Fixed an issue where the … > Apps menu sometimes doesn’t list all installed or pinned websites.
Fixed an issue where the first run experience sometimes shows over and over, never letting the browser be used.

Known issues:

Clicking links from external applications while Edge is waiting to restart to apply an update sometimes results in those links not loading properly. The workaround is just to restart Edge to apply the update, and this is expected to be fixed after next week’s update.
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 85.0.531.1 (June 2, 2020)

Added features:

Added a setting to enable preloading of certain webpages for faster searches and browsing.

Improved reliability:

Fixed an issue on Mac where new installations of Edge sometimes crash on launch.
Fixed an issue where closing the browser too soon after importing data from another browser sometimes causes a crash.
Fixed an issue where pasting content when Information Protection is enabled sometimes crashes the tab.
Fixed an issue where attempting to restart Edge on Mac to apply an update gives an error message instead of updating the browser.

Changed behavior:

Fixed an issue where tabs sometimes appear at their minimum width, even when there’s space for them to be larger.
Fixed an issue where scrolling down a page sometimes causes it to jump back up to the top.
Fixed an issue where unpinning and re-pinning Edge to the Taskbar sometimes creates a shortcut to the wrong profile.
Fixed an issue where the … menu button sometimes disappears at small window sizes.
Fixed an issue on Mac where Shy UI sometimes disappears while being interacted with.
Fixed an issue where the highlighted word sometimes doesn’t match what’s being dictated when reading PDFs aloud.
Fixed an issue where printing a PDF sometimes doesn’t center the content on the printed page, leading to cut-off content.
Fixed an issue where the default printer is sometimes forgotten or reset.
Fixed an issue where the Immersive Reader toolbar sometimes disappears when the window isn’t wide enough.
Fixed an issue where translating content in Immersive Reader sometimes leaves grammar markings from the previous language on the page.
Fixed an issue where Youtube videos embedded on webpages aren’t shown in Immersive Reader when they should be.
Fixed an issue where clicking the “Complete sign in” button sometimes doesn’t enable sync until the browser is restarted.
Fixed an issue where Application Guard windows sometimes don’t get proxy settings applied properly.

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.