The latest Microsoft Edge Dev update is bringing some improvements to both the Edge favorites and history menus. Coming with build 90.0.796.0, here’s a look at all the new features and everything else you need to know about this release.
First off, there are the added features. As we hinted, Microsoft added the ability to start typing to search as soon as the favorites and history menus are open and loaded. They’ve also added suggestions from local browsing history when clicking on the empty address bar on the new tab page. Other new features are below.
- Added support for Friendly Names for certificates in the certificate picker.
- Enabled Single Sign-On for Mac, fixing an issue where certain websites can’t login.
Improved messaging when certain permissions are restricted when viewing a protected PDF.- Deprecated the management policy to Enable Native Window Occlusion in favor of the newly-added policy to Enable Window Occlusion. Note that updates to administrative templates or documentation may not have occurred yet.
- Enabled support for the management policy to control SSL Error Override Allowed For Origins from upstream Chromium.
As usual, you also can expect reliability improvements, as well as bug fixes and changed behaviors. There’s a lot of these this week, and we included some below. Please check the full list at Microsoft for a more in-depth look.
- Fixed a crash for Family Safety users.
- Fixed a crash when using speech recognition.
- Fixed a crash when copying something when Data Loss Prevention is enabled.
- Fixed an issue where the browser uses lots of CPU doing nothing.
- Fixed an issue where Smart Copy doesn’t work one websites like OneNote.
- Fixed an issue where deleted passwords are sometimes restored unexpectedly via sync.
- Fixed an issue when dragging a URL from the address bar into a Collection.
- Fixed an issue with syncing Collections.
- Fixed an issue where pinning a PWA or website installed as an app to the Taskbar also unexpectedly prompts to pin it to the Start Menu.
- Fixed an issue where PWAs or websites installed as apps that open child windows don’t get those child windows associated with the main app window, but instead as generic Edge windows.
- Fixed an issue where PWAs or websites installed as apps that open child windows don’t get those child windows associated with the main app window, but instead as generic Edge windows.
To end, we will mention that there are no new known issues to report this week. Just as a reminder, the known issues include the following —Extensions might not work on Linux, ad blocking extensions might mess with YouTube, some tabs and extensions might give an error.
There has been plenty of Microsoft Edge news this week. First off, there’s a new adaptive notification request feature in the stable version of Edge which will suggest site notification permission requests. Microsoft also detailed a new Kids Mode in Edge Canary and Dev. As always, we invite you to check out our Microsoft Edge news hub for all the latest.
