Microsoft Edge is now showing Open, Save as and Save options when downloading files

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 Edge Canary enables Secure DNS by default, brings Smooth Scrolling to PDFs

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 …

Microsoft removed Edge extensions that injected Ads into Search Results

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 tests Recommended Searches & “Meet Now” button (Skype) on New Tab Page

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: no uninstall option for Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 installed via Windows Update

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’s new Edge Extension adds alt-text to Caption-less Images on Websites

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 …

Microsoft Edge’s ‘vertical tabs’ is already available to some Users

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 …

Microsoft Edge crashes w/ Google SE, gains Surface Duo emulation & Tab Previews Support

Microsoft again brought Tab Previews aka ‘Tab Hover Card Images’ to Edge Canary with lazy loading support, Chrome, and Edge Stable versions now support emulation of dual-screen devices. And Microsoft Edge has Started crashing since yesterday when you start to type in the address bar with Google set as a default Search engine. A possible …