Edge Dev 87

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Edge Dev Update 87.0.664.8 (October 15, 2020)

This is the last build for major version 87, so except for maybe a small patch or two, this is the build that will soon be going to Beta. We have one important known issue in this build that’s actually a fix for a previous issue. A couple of weeks ago, people who were expecting their session to be restored, either because they have Edge set to start up with their previous session or they intentionally checked for updates in Settings, lost their sessions. Today, the bug that caused that behavior has been fixed, but the fix causes the exact same behavior. If you’re in that group of people who lost their tabs, there’s a good chance they’re recoverable. Go to … > History, and look for entries in the “Recently closed” section that mention multiple tabs, since they will restore entire windows. Other methods, like the ctrl + shift + T, should also work if done right after Edge is opened.

Canary users should also check to see if they’ve been signed out of the browser. A bug over the last week may have caused that to happen, which will also affect features like sync that rely on being signed into the browser. Now, for everything noteworthy that’s been added this week:

Added features:

Changed the Favorites menu to now be a pinnable pane that lists all favorites in a single vertical list instead of multiple flyout menus.
Added a price comparison feature to Collections.
Added data recovery to PDFs so that edits or annotations aren’t lost in the event of a crash.
Improved support for AV1-encoded videos.
Added a keyboard shortcut to open and close Collections.
Added a button to the Profile flyout to turn on Sync if it’s not already turned on.
Added a setting to control whether or not the button to reveal passwords on webpages is shown, as well as a management policy for Password Reveal Enabled. Note that updates to documentation and administrative templates are still needed.
Added a management policy for Kiosk Address Bar Editing Enabled. Note that updates to documentation and administrative templates are still needed.
Added a management policy for Web Capture Enabled. Note that updates to documentation and administrative templates are still needed.
Merged the News and Office new tab pages for work and school users. Note that the Office-only new tab page can still be set for users via management policy.
Rolled out the pre-rendered new tab page more broadly.
Deprecated the management policy for New Tab Page Set Feed Type.

Improved reliability:

Fixed an issue where navigating to certain websites crashes the browser.
Fixed an issue where Read Aloud sometimes crashes the browser.
Fixed an issue where Read Aloud on PDFs sometimes crashes the tab. Note that there is still a known hang with Read Aloud that may cause the tab to eventually crash if it hangs for too long.
Fixed a crash when syncing Collections.
Fixed an issue where dragging items into a Collection sometimes crashes the Collections pane.
Fixed a crash when playing certain videos.
Fixed an issue where certain videos fail to play.

Changed behavior:

Fixed an issue where updating Edge causes the current session to be closed instead of restored (if it was set to be restored).
Fixed an issue where users are signed out of Edge after an update.
Fixed an issue where downloaded PDFs always open in Edge instead of opening in the default PDF viewer.
Fixed an issue where the Favorites list sometimes won’t open.
Fixed an issue where some website permissions are unable to be deleted from Settings.
Fixed an issue where items can’t be added to a Collection from within Immersive Reader.
Fixed an issue where disconnecting a monitor while Edge is fullscreen sometimes results in Edge no longer being visible on the remaining monitor(s).
Fixed an issue where Password Monitor sometimes reports different numbers in the alert popup than it does in Settings.
Fixed an issue where websites pinned to the Start menu sometimes don’t show the name of the website.
Fixed an issue where the Taskbar shortcut sometimes looks pixelated or rough.
Fixed an issue where Amazon Assistant doesn’t work when Tracking Prevention is enabled.
Fixed an issue where Open All in Collections sometimes doesn’t work.
Fixed an issue where certain forms on webpages are autofilled when they’re not expected to be.
Fixed an issue where non-password forms on webpages are sometimes detected as passwords.
Fixed an issue where the Web Capture preview sometimes doesn’t match the area selected or shows the area selected to be outside the window.

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.
Some users are still running into an issue where all tabs and extensions immediately crash with a STATUS_INVALID_IMAGE_HASH error. The most common cause of this error is outdated security or antivirus software from vendors like Symantec, and in those cases, updating that software will fix it.
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.

Edge Dev Update 87.0.658.0 (October 06, 2020)

Added features:

Added the ability to translate selected text on a page.
Added the ability to never translate a particular site.
Added a management policy to Configure Speech Recognition. Note that updates to documentation and administrative templates are still needed.
Obsoleted the management policy to Enable Deprecated Web Platform Features.

Improved reliability:

Fixed an issue where opening Edge sometimes causes the device to bluescreen.
Fixed an issue where opening the Downloads management page sometimes crashes the browser.
Fixed a crash when opening a website installed as an app.
Fixed a crash when Password Monitor shows an alert.
Fixed an issue where using certain accessibility features like Narrator sometimes causes tabs to crash on certain versions of Windows 10.
Fixed an issue where dragging items into a Collection sometimes crashes the Collections pane.
Fixed an issue where Edge sometimes opens many command prompt windows with ERROR: file_io_win.cc(180).

Changed behaviors:

Temporarily disabled the cards that appear when hovering the mouse over tabs.
Fixed an issue where there is sometimes blank space between tabs or between the new tab button and the last tab.
Fixed an issue where Read Aloud sometimes doesn’t start reading from the current location in PDFs.
Fixed an issue where the profile image on the Taskbar shortcut doesn’t match the image in the browser.
Fixed an issue where searching on the History management page sometimes doesn’t work.
Fixed an issue where using Guided Switch opens an additional new tab.
Fixed an issue where Guided Switch sometimes is triggered for popup windows.
Fixed an issue where text selected in PDFs sometimes doesn’t unselect when it should.
Fixed an issue where keyboard shortcuts registered by extensions sometimes don’t work.

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.
Some users are still running into an issue where all tabs and extensions immediately crash with a STATUS_INVALID_IMAGE_HASH error. The most common cause of this error is outdated security or antivirus software from vendors like Symantec, and in those cases, updating that software will fix it.
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.

Edge Dev Update 87.0.654.0 (September 29, 2020)

Added features:

Rolled out Share, Copy, and Paste Settings more broadly.
Extended formatted link copying capabilities to links copied from webpages.

Improved reliability:

Fixed a crash on startup due to sync.
Fixed a crash when closing the browser while the Guided Switch dialog is open.
Fixed an issue where clicking the IE logo next to the address bar in IE mode tabs crashes the browser.
Fixed a crash when printing.
Fixed a hang when using IE mode and loading pages in other tabs.
Fixed an issue where sidebar Search sometimes fails.
Fixed an issue where using Save As sometimes fails to save PDFs after they’ve been edited.

Changed behavior:

Fixed an issue where importing payment info from other browsers fails when Edge is set to not save payment info entered into webpages.
Fixed an issue where the Jumplist sometimes is missing.
Fixed an issue where Family Safety sometimes doesn’t work in InPrivate windows.
Fixed an issue where Taskbar shortcuts sometimes don’t show the proper account picture.
Fixed an issue where websites installed as apps sometimes don’t have the proper name in Windows.
Fixed an issue where deleted search engines sometimes return after restarting the browser.
Fixed an issue where exporting a Collection to OneNote sometimes doesn’t export all the images.
Fixed an issue where shift+clicking in PDFs unselects any selected text instead of extending the selection.
Fixed an issue where searching on the Extensions management page sometimes incorrectly shows a popup that an extension has been removed.
Fixed an issue where the Translate popup sometimes shows the wrong language compared to what language the page has actually been translated to.
Fixed an issue where Shy UI sometimes dismisses when it shouldn’t.
Fixed an issue where the management policy to Configure On Premises Account Auto Sign In doesn’t work properly for some device configurations.
Temporarily disabled Tab Groups.

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.
Some users are still running into an issue where all tabs and extensions immediately crash with a STATUS_INVALID_IMAGE_HASH error. The most common cause of this error is outdated security or antivirus software from vendors like Symantec, and in those cases, updating that software will fix it.
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.

Edge Dev Update 87.0.637.0 (September 16, 2020)

Added features:

Added the ability to swipe downward on touchscreens to activate Shy UI.

Improved reliability:

Fixed a crash due to sync.
Fixed an issue where changing the browser’s theme and then using Shy UI crashes the browser.

Changed behavior:

Fixed an issue where the Cookies and Site Permissions Settings page is blank.
Fixed an issue where the Collections pane is sometimes blank.
Fixed an issue where right-clicking on items in the right-click menu doesn’t select them.
Fixed an issue where some websites like Kaltura show an error that the browser is blocking 3rd party cookies.
Fixed an issue where attempting to enter Immersive Reader results in an error on certain pages.
Fixed an issue where using the Save As option when downloading a file causes the file location prompt to show the same folder every time it first opens instead of the most recently used folder.
Fixed an issue where translating content on a page with multiple languages sometimes gives an error that the language it’s being translated to is the same as the current language, even though there is some text on the page that can be successfully translated.
Fixed an issue where uninstalling a website installed as an app from outside of Edge (for example, from the Control Panel) sometimes doesn’t cause the app to be removed from Edge’s list of Apps.
Fixed an issue where Caret Browsing stays enabled after the browser is closed.

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.
Some users are still running into an issue where all tabs and extensions immediately crash with a STATUS_INVALID_IMAGE_HASH error. The most common cause of this error is outdated security or antivirus software from vendors like Symantec, and in those cases, updating that software will fix it.
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.

Edge Dev Update 87.0.634.0 (September 9, 2020)

Added features:

Added the ability to Open and Save As for downloaded items on the Downloads shelf before they begin downloading.
Added the ability to view a PDF’s table of contents and use it to navigate to locations within it.
Added a Website Permission Setting for sites that ask to open an application after clicking on a link.
Changed ClickOnce support to be enabled by default.
Enabled support for a Printing Paper Size Default management policy from Chromium.
Enabled support for management policies for Default File System Read Guard Setting, Default File System Write Guard Setting, File System Read Ask For Urls, File System Read Blocked For Urls, File System Write Ask For Urls, and File System Write Blocked For Urls from Chromium.

Improved reliability:

Fixed an issue on Mac where users running the OS 11 preview (Big Sur) may have issues with all versions of Edge either crashing or not launching.
Fixed an issue where opening a local file sometimes crashes the browser.
Fixed an issue where exporting a Collection in an InPrivate window crashes the browser.
Fixed a crash on launch.
Fixed a crash related to sync.
Fixed an issue where zooming in PDFs crashes the tab on certain devices.
Fixed an occasional crash when uninstalling a website installed as an app.
Fixed an issue where Edge can’t update.
Fixed an issue where deleting a saved password from the Passwords management page causes the page to freeze.
Fixed an occasional hang when viewing files protected with Data Loss Prevention.
Fixed an issue where trying to sign into the browser with a work or school account fails on certain versions of Windows.
Fixed an issue where new Collections sometimes can’t be created.

Changed behavior:

Fixed an issue on Mac where links from other applications always open in the last used profile, regardless of which profile is chosen as the default for opening links.
Fixed an issue where Microsoft Search for Business doesn’t work.
Fixed an issue where text on the address bar dropdown is too small.
Fixed an issue where setting the browser to delete cookies when it’s closed but also setting some exceptions sometimes results in those exceptions getting deleted.
Fixed an issue where opening Edge from a shortcut pinned to the Taskbar sometimes doesn’t associate the window with that shortcut but instead creates a new entry on the Taskbar.
Fixed an issue where disabling the setting to show search results in the address bar from local data like favorites and history sometimes results in the inability to directly navigate to certain URLs like chrome:// URLs, since they have to first redirect to edge:// URLs.
Fixed an issue where some website permissions in Settings are missing icons.
Fixed an issue where opening a link that initiates a download in a new tab sometimes fails to start the download if the setting is enabled to choose where to save every downloaded file.
Fixed an issue where pasting URLs that have been formatted using the Link style via Share, Copy, and Paste Settings sometimes pastes only the title of the underlying page and not the actual URL.
Fixed an issue where re-opening a closed tab that had the Immersive Reader activated doesn’t open the page back in reading view.
Fixed an issue on Mac where Shy UI sometimes isn’t visible when it should be.
Fixed an issue where typing in the address bar sometimes fails to produce any search suggestions.
Fixed an issue where selecting all items on an internal page like the History management page sometimes doesn’t bring up the option to delete them.
Fixed an issue where a website can appear multiple times in the list of top sites on the new tab page.
Fixed an issue where Edge sometimes leaves behind a huge data cache.
Changed PWAs and websites installed as apps to no longer re-open after the browser is restarted due to an update, crash, etc. due to user feedback. This area is still being explored and will likely be revisited.
Obsoleted the New Tab Page Company Logo management policy. Updates to documentation and administrative templates will come later.
Removed the ability to translate the new tab page using the built-in translator.
Removed the ability to save passwords in Application Guard windows.

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.
Some users are still running into an issue where all tabs and extensions immediately crash with a STATUS_INVALID_IMAGE_HASH error. The most common cause of this error is outdated security or antivirus software from vendors like Symantec, and in those cases, updating that software will fix it.
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.