Mar 14, 2021 11:40 EDT with 0 comments
A bit of a printer mishap with Patch Tuesday, the ZeniMax acquisition now being official, and a farewell to Legacy Edge were all things that happened this week. You can find info about that, as well as much more below, in your Microsoft digest for the week of March 7 – 13.
Patch Tuesday woes
To the surprise of perhaps very few, Microsoft pushed out the main set of security updates to its supported variants of Windows right on cue, on the second Tuesday of the month. If you’re on a Windows 10 system, these updates are:
May 2020 Update /
Microsoft working to unify Edge codebase on all platforms, mobile betas coming soon
Mar 5, 2021 11:30 EST · Hot! with 10 comments
Microsoft has been adding a bunch of useful features to its Chromium-based Edge browser, with the latest round of updates bumping the offering to version 89 on the desktop, bringing performance improvements to browser launches, sleeping tabs for better resource management, and the general availability of vertical tabs. The company recently added Collections and tabs and history sync to the mobile versions. However, the Android version of the app is still based on version 77, with an update to the underlying version long overdue.
Microsoft Edge is getting a new Extensions menu in the toolbar, now available for Insiders
Mar 2, 2021 18:28 EST with 27 comments
Microsoft recently introduced a bunch of changes to the Edge browser that were aimed at improving the usability of the offering. These include the revamped favorites and history menus, a streamlined downloads UI, and more recently, the enhancements to Collections. Today, the firm announced another change coming to select Dev and Canary channel users, and this time, it relates to extensions.
Users that tend to use multiple extensions might have a cluttered toolbar owing to all the icons crowding the real estate next to the Omnibox. The only alternatives are to either move icons into the ellipsis menu or access them through the dedicated extensions page. Now, the Redmond firm is adding a dedicated Extensions menu in the toolbar that serves a flyout menu with the list of available extensions, similar to the history and Collecti
Feb 21, 2021 09:54 EST with 1 comment
An FPS boost for Backwards Compatible titles on console, an acknowledgement of 21H1, and even some Edge updates at the forefront. You can find info about that, as well as much more below, in your Microsoft digest for the week of February 14 – 20.
Trying Edge
Unlike previous columns, in which Edge news was relegated to the final section, this time we’re switching things around a little.
We’ll start with the Canary channel, which now allows testers to open Office files directly in the browser – similar to how you would open PDFs -, as well as introducing a Kids Mode (perhaps not too dissimilar to Kid’s Corner from the Windows Phone 8 days). The latter is aimed at children between the ages of 5-8 and 9-12, and allows the browser to make sure the little ones receive “friendly content” via Bing SafeSearch, among other protections that are put in place.
Microsoft has released Edge Dev build 90.0.789.1 with a couple of new features. There's a new option for a simplified right-click menu that's still under development. There's also a ton of fixes.