Microsoft Edge 85: Enable ‘Block’ option in Autoplay Settings

Microsoft is bringing back the option to block Media Autoplay on websites in the new Microsoft Edge browser via a flag in the Canary version. Classic Microsoft Edge aka Edge Legacy offers a global and per-site setting to block automatic playback of videos on websites. New Microsoft Edge currently offers ‘Allow’ and ‘Limit’ options in …

Microsoft releases LinkedIn Extension for Edge

Microsoft has released LinkedIn Extension for new Microsoft Edge to Edge Add-ons Store and is now available for download. Microsoft’s LinkedIn was in the news recently, when Microsoft started notifying LinkedIn users on its website that the networking platform won’t be supported on Internet Explorer 11 from July 01, 2020, onwards. While LinkedIn extension for …

Microsoft Editor recommends disabling other Grammar extensions to avoid conflicts

If you’re using Microsoft Editor along with any other Grammar extension such as Grammarly, you’ll receive a notification from the former to disable other extensions for Microsoft Editor to work best. WIth popular Grammarly and other Grammar and spell checking related web services and browser extensions available, recently Microsoft released Microsoft Editor Extension for Chrome …

New Microsoft Edge’s Auto Starting bug is investigated by Microsoft

If your new Microsoft Edge is automatically running on Startup, then its a known issue acknowledged and is being investigated by Microsoft. Unless you manually add a new Microsoft Edge shortcut to the startup folder, like other browsers, new Edge won’t run automatically on startup. However, Windows 10 can does this if you’ve enabled sign-in …

Microsoft Edge Add-ons Store Promotes new Edge in Chrome and other browsers

Microsoft has started showing “The new browser recommended by Microsoft is here” ad banner on Edge Add-ons Store in Google Chrome and other non-Microsoft web browsers. It’s obvious for Chrome, Firefox, and Opera to show download browser banner to get extensions from respective stores. For instance, when you visit Chrome Web Store in a non-Chromium …

Microsoft emails users about Edge automatic Update coming to their PCs

Microsoft started emailing users to get ready for the new Microsoft Edge coming to their PCs via Windows Update. The email briefs users about Edge features, websites, and extensions compatibility, Extensions and says, the transition from Edge legacy to new Edge will be seamless. The email offers a link to download the new Microsoft Edge …

New Microsoft Edge to open PDFs in App Mode in Firefox

Starting Firefox 79, If you select or set new Microsoft Edge to open PDFs in Firefox, then the PDFs will open in the Edge browser in a ‘toolbar-less window’ or ‘app mode’. Mozilla constantly updates and improves Firefox built-in PDF Viewer, PDF.js. Recently the company made the following improvements and changes to Firefox PDF Viewer. …

Scroll to Text Fragment works in New Microsoft Edge but not for Google Search Featured Snippets

It is surprising to learn that Scroll to Text Fragment works in the New Microsoft Edge browser, but Google search isn’t creating Scroll to text links for featured snippets in the Edge browser and that’s why Edge is also not highlighting text on websites when a user comes from by clicking a featured snippet. But, …

New Microsoft Edge now available via Windows Update for Windows 10 1803 to 2004 versions

Microsoft has recently released KB4541301, KB4541302, KB4559309 updates for Microsoft Edge for Windows 10 versions 1803, 1809, 1903 and 1909, and 2004 and are available for download via Windows Update. Microsoft launched a new Microsoft Edge browser based on Chromium in January this year and is available as a manual download for  Windows 7, 8, …

Microsoft Edge 85 enters Dev with Sites Preloading Setting and more

Microsoft updated Edge Dev to version 85.0.531.1. The major update brings a new setting (enabled by default) to accelerate the searches and web pages browsing. The update contains improvements, bug fixes, and has some known issues. A few days back we reported Microsoft Edge Canary preloads web pages and searches for faster browsing via newly […]