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Microsoft Edge coverage from Techdows: feature guides, settings and flags, tips for Collections, vertical tabs and more, plus fixes for common Edge problems. Updated for the latest Edge versions on Windows 11, Windows 10, and Mac.
Few hours back we covered about the release of Microsoft Edge 85. This version comes with PDF Highlighter tool and other new features. Yesterday, Microsoft announced it will add digital pen support to Highlighter tool for PDFs in Edge version 86. Microsoft says the feature will be useful to researchers and students that read a …
Microsoft has released Edge 85 two days after the release of Chrome 85 and is available for Mac and Windows to download with new features, improvements, security updates and bug fixes. New version of Edge allows users to enable Internet Explorer Mode straight from its Settings and send collections to OneNote and offers a new …
As promised, Microsoft is finally offering Open, Save, and Save as options when downloading files in the new Microsoft Edge browser. The new UI is available to some users via controlled rollouts in the Canary version. When you initiate a download, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Edge Legacy browsers prompt with a dialog at the bottom …
Microsoft today announced it will make pasting URLs copied from the Edge address bar easier with the new “Link format” feature. The feature initially will be available to Edge on Windows only. Currently, it is being rolled out to the Edge Canary version. Microsoft wants to address the pain points users face when they copy …
Microsoft has finally enabled DNS over HTTPS (DoH) with Secure DNS as default DNS provider by default in Edge Canary 86.0.612.0 and allows users to choose a custom DNS from Cloudflare, CleanBrowsing (Family Filter), Quad9, and Google Public DNS. The Edge Canary update also brings Smooth Scrolling for PDFs behind a flag. Google has already rolled …
After Google, Microsoft has now taken down some extensions from the Edge Add-ons store. The same extensions have been deleted from Chrome Web Store after reports of them injecting ads into Google and Bing search results. Recently, we reported a Screenshot extension on Chrome Web Store with over 1 million installs is inserting ads into …
Microsoft Edge New Tab Page is now showing the Meet Now button for Skype and Recommended Searches for some users in the Canary version. Despite making Canary channel available, Microsoft is still pushing and testing new Edge features to some only via controlled rollouts. For example, the Vertical tabs feature is already available to some …
Microsoft took to Edge support website to confirm that there will be no uninstall option for new Microsoft Edge installed via Windows System update and the legacy version of Edge won’t be available to users once they migrate to the new Edge Microsoft made the new Microsoft Edge based on Chromium available for manual download …
Microsoft Edge team has found the reason for Edge crashes that happened recently, they were able to mitigate the issue after Google rolled back the recent updates they pushed to their Search service. A few days back, Edge started crashing to users (all channels affected) when they started typing the Omnibox. Microsoft team suggested to …
Microsoft has released the ‘Caption Crawler’ extension to Edge Add-ons Store for Microsoft Edge and is available for download. This extension “adds captions to images that don’t have any” to help users with disabilities who rely on Screen Readers to get image descriptions. Screen Readers skip the images that don’t have alt-text included, to address …
Four months back, in a blog post, Microsoft showed off Edge’s new Vertical tabs feature, confirming it will be available to the users in the months to come. The feature is already available to some users via Controlled Feature Rollouts. At the end of March, the Edge team said Collections, Password Monitor, Smart Copy, Vertical …
The latest Microsoft Edge Dev and Canary versions no longer show Dino image in the QR Share code, replaced with dots now. Has Microsoft intentionally removed it? Back in December last year, we reported Chrome allows us to share pages to Smartphones via QR code with built-in QR code Generator Chrome contains. The feature is …