Microsoft has missed publishing a new dev build on Tuesday this week and Edge Canary hasn’t received an update for few days, the company today finally released a new Edge Dev build 80.0.328.4 with bug fixes and improvements. This update brings a new Edge taskbar icon to everyone running the Dev channel.
The update fixes the crashes encountered by users on launch and also addresses the white blank window that appears on startup. The changelog mentions various crashes when using the browser, this is a stability update, everyone should update to and Microsoft has held back new Canary builds until Sync issues users experiencing have been addressed, FYI, Edge Canary as of today, still on 80.0.331.0.
The Dev channel update fixes an issue where extensions installed from Chrome Web Store don’t update automatically. For some users, Edge added Work profiles and they can’t be removable, this issue has been resolved.
You can find the complete changelog along with known issues in this build here.
Microsoft Edge Stable 79 based on Chromium is expected to release on January 15, 2020, and we’ve already covered about its installation and first-run experience. Upon request from users, Microsoft added OneNote Web clipper extension to Edge Insider addons site, and unlisted Microsoft Edge insider Extension is also available.
In news related to Edge chromium, we’ve covered how to open websites in IE mode in Chromium Edge (this works in all official channels, including dev) and we also reported new Edge stable imports set aside tabs in Old Edge as favorites.