Microsoft Edge: AI Browser 17+

Good. But a few missing features.

Been using it for just a few hours, and it’s good. But it fell short when I tried to force hold an animated gif to copy it and send through iMessage to a friend. Doesn’t sound like a huge issue at all, but when we only ever converse through a series of animated gifs, the browser simply couldn’t accomodate our conversation. Shame, because I’m really like it so far, and offloading to PC is a really handy feature.

The force touch also allows us to open a new browser window from links. So even though my main gripe was because of animated gif copying, the actual productivity feature of opening a new window from links is quite serious. In fact, there doesn’t seem to be any force touch at all with further testing. And the navigation/new tab on long press also doesn’t seem to be implemented.

Back to Safari for the time being. Shame, as it did look and feel nice.

Great browser, but removed all tabs after update

I prefer Microsoft Edge over Safari simply because it lags less, however, a recent update cause all my tabs to be reset. Even my history was erased so I wasn’t even able to restore my lost tabs. I would rate this browser 4 or 5 stars otherwise.

Edit: The latest update has now resolved this issue and I have all my tabs back prior to the update that removed them. A huge thanks to the devs for getting onto this issue and getting back to me so quickly, I’ve updated my rating to reflect their support.

If the devs read this, I thought I might add a few ideas to help improve Microsoft Edge even further:
- the ability to view all tabs as a list (instead of the current card layout), this would help in managing tabs easier.
- the current swipe down gestures are really useful, but I would love to see a gesture implemented to be able to switch tabs easier (similar to how you can switch tabs in Safari on iOS 15).

Anyways, thanks again for solving this issue.

- Nuzza

Developer Response ,

Sorry for the unpleasant experience! We have made an emergency fix for this issue, and we believe it has been addressed in the latest version 107.0.1418.36. You can go to the App Store to update to the latest version. If you got any other suggestion, please email us at msedgepreview@microsoft.com We'd love to get your feedback! --- Microsoft Edge Support

Lazy Release Note Offender

Welcome to Microsoft Edge! Check out what’s new in this release: Nothing new. Still the same grind on bug fixes, bug fixes, bug fixes. How many bugs does this app have without introducing new features? I can’t believe you hadn’t introduced new functionality.

As far as I can scroll back in the release history here, for the past 4 months all I see is “bug fixes, stability and performance improvements”. While these are super important, and there was a feature intro to Copilot Pro 3 months back, there doesn’t seem to be coming any more functional improvements. Does that mean Edge has reached its edge😉 of functional extensibility? Is Edge as perfect as it get?

But if bug fixes, stability and performance is really all that’s on the table, then tell us users what you fixed, stabilised or where you improved performance. Repeatedly listing the same release notes without further detail is lazy IMHO.

Developer Response ,

Dear invenio, serving people like you gives us immense joy! We're inspired every day by what people are telling us. Could you please tell us clearly what do you want to see in the release history? We will continue to try our best to optimize and improve our product, thanks.