A new and mysterious flag has shown up on Microsoft Edge Canary. Called Project Robin, its description is cryptic, to say the least. The entry notes that the Project Robin flag enables Project Robin features, which is rather unhelpful. Thankfully one of the changes it enables is not that difficult to spot. Project Robin adds […]
Microsoft is working on increasing the discovery of the new features they are constantly adding to their new Edge browser with a new feature called Assistance Hub. Assistance Hub offers a feed informing users of the features the Edge browser as to offer as can be seen in this gif below: I suspect most of […]
Microsoft is upgrading the web capture tool in Edge with a great new capability. The tool already lets you capture a web page longer than the screen by scrolling, but some times web pages have multiple scrollable regions and on such pages, it is not possible to scroll those regions. Microsoft has now added a […]
A new sync item has appeared in the profile settings of the Edge browser. In Edge Canary, there is now a new toggle called “Share browsing data with other Windows features” According to the description Microsoft plans to use data such as your search history, regularly visited sites and tabs to improve things such as […]
In February Microsoft disabled DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in all Edge channels due to performance issues. With regular DNS, if you are visiting a site using HTTPS, your DNS query is sent over an unencrypted connection. That means that even if you are browsing a secure site, anyone listening to packets on the network knows you are […]
Immersive Reader, a feature of Microsoft Edge that strips down extraneous content on web pages, makes the web more accessible and less distracting. Today Microsoft announced that the feature now supports Wikipedia, greatly simplifying the presentation of the web pages. You can now open all Wikipedia webpages in Immersive Reader by clicking Immersive Reader (book […]
We posted yesterday on a collection of vintage games which included Pac-Man, Tetris and Mario Cart available to download from the Edge Extension Store. This was in response to a now-deleted tweet by the Edge Dev team, which can be seen below. An investigation by The Verge has discovered that these games, which appears to […]
To be able to manage tabs is a bit tricky, especially if you have a gazillion of tabs open in your browser. Though for Chrome users, managing tabs is easy, thanks to Tab Groups and Tab Groups Auto-Correct features — the former lets you label and group your tabs, which you’ll be able to collapse […]
While Microsoft is trying hard to convince Internet Explorer users to switch to Edge by introducing features like IE Mode in its new Chromium-based browser, there are businesses that still prefer Internet Explorer over Chromium Edge for performing certain work. However, for a regular user, Internet Explorer isn’t the one that is ideal as many […]
Edge has about 7.5% market share and this has largely changed over the last year. Microsoft has become increasingly desperate about promoting their native browser, including recently having unskippable splash screens when you update your PC. Now in their latest move, Microsoft is adding prompts to your taskbar, encouraging Windows 10 users to try the […]
Most of us use our browser as our password manager, and fortunately, the features of these built-in services has continued to improve over time. On occasion, however, your browser may not recognize the need to save an updated password, meaning you are sometimes stuck having to enter in the correct password manually each time despite […]
If you’ve been considering making a jump away from Google Chrome, you’re not alone. Plenty of people are toying with the idea, whether because of concerns over privacy or perhaps issues with performance. Others just want a change of pace. Thankfully, whatever your reasoning for switching web browsers, the process is a lot simpler than […]
Microsoft has pushed a new stable build of their new Edge browser, taking it to version 81.0.416.53. As is usual with the stable build, the company has not released a changelog, but the dev version at this stage had improvements in PDF and immersive reader, support for signing in automatically edge://settings/passwords, Dolby Vision support, the […]
Some of you may not think about your web browser all that much. These days, however, it could be worth considering why you use what you use — and how you could benefit if you switch. One of the central features that you should consider is privacy. Most browsers offer at least some level of […]
Two days ago Microsoft updated the beta version of their Edge browser (which is the stable version which is only updated every 6 weeks) to version 81.0.416.12. Yesterday Microsoft released a changelog for the update, which finally brings back the Collections feature and activates a number of enterprise features. See the full changelog below. Feature […]
In a blog post, Microsoft has announced that the latest Canary version of their Edge browser is significantly faster than earlier versions based on Chromium 79. The improvements, which can be seen in Microsoft Edge build 81.0.389.0 is due to “new toolchain optimizations” and can be seen in day to day browser use. In Microsoft’s […]
One of the distinctive features of the EdgeHTML rendering engine was butter-smooth scrolling, both with your fingers and with the mouse scroll wheel. The move to the Chromium rendering engine has meant switching to a much more abrupt type of scrolling, but Microsoft’s engineers are trying to fix it. A new commit by Microsoft to […]
Microsoft has been working to make Progressive Web Apps more like native apps, including for example adding them to the start menu, and allow users to uninstall them the usual Windows tools. Now in their latest move, they plan to allow these apps to auto-run on start-up of your PC. The option, which is being […]
Microsoft has updated the Dev channel of the new Edge browser version 81.0.381.0. The release is the first for 2020 and the first on the new Chromium version 81 branch. The new release brings the following new added features: Added a feature to suggest URLs to visit that are similar to typed URLs that result […]
Microsoft will be releasing the final version of the new Chromium-based Edge browser on the 15th of January and it appears Microsoft is testing dropping the beta label on the icon for the browser. WindowsUnited reports that on a number of installations of the beta build of the browser the Beta label has disappeared, suggesting […]