If you don’t want the feedback smiley button in the toolbar which lets you send feedback to the Edge team, you can now hide it, latest Edge Canary build offers an option for that in Settings.
Microsoft released a new dev build 79.0.294.1 for Chromium Edge and is available via update and for manual download from the Microsoft Edge insider homepage. The company has added the following new features.
1. Like Chrome, updated Edge now warns “users when they install an extension that has the ability to change their search provider, the home page, or new tab page”.
2. Edge has improved “messaging and reporting abilities” to alert users when they visit unsafe websites.
3. Added a new button to profile layout to set up syncing.
The information you provide to the Edge team via Send feedback dialog by clicking the smiley button on the toolbar helps Microsoft to improve its browser and fix reported issues. Microsoft has got the request from users to “provide an option to remove the send feedback “smiley” button from the toolbar”.
The company says it is “under review”, but Microsoft has already offered an option in the Appearance section in Settings for that.
To hide or show the feedback button on the toolbar in new Microsoft Edge browser
1. Launch latest Edge Canary 79.0.298.0 or later
2. Click on Ellipsis icon and select Settings
3. Click on Appearance and disable “Show feedback button”
Note: The latest Edge Canary update has toggled the above setting to off by default.
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