Microsoft Edge Chromium Solves Dark Theme Tooltips Issue

Microsoft is constantly working on improving the dark theme support in their newest Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser. One of the issues with the dark theme is light tooltips that ignore the overall dark appearance. The company now offers a solution.

The native Windows tooltip doesn't support dark theme and it has some accessibility issues with the text scaling settings. By using the aura tooltips provided by the Chromium project, Microsoft can solve both of these problems together.

A new commit to the browser's code base reveals that there is also an increase to the maximum width of tooltips from 400px to 800px in order to better match the native tooltip and
avoid some of the early truncation issues.  On Windows transparency will not be allowed because it doesn't meet accessibility requirements. This change also adds a border when
transparency is not allowed.

Enable Dark Theme Tooltips In Microsoft Edge Chromium

1. Update the Edge Canary to build 77.0.208.0.
2. Type edge://flags/#enable-aura-tooltips-on-windows into the address bar of Edge.
3. Enable the flag Enable Aura tooltips on Windows by selecting Enabled from the drop down list next to the flag's name.
4. Restart the Edge browser when prompted.

The result will be as follows.

Default tooltips.

New tooltips.

Microsoft Edge, the default web browser of Windows 10, is moving to a Chromium-compatible web engine in the Desktop version. Microsoft explains that the intention behind this move is to create better web compatibility for customers and less fragmentation for web developers. Microsoft has already made a number of contributions to the Chromium project, helping to port the project to Windows on ARM. The company promises to contribute more to the Chromium project.

At the moment of this writing, the latest Microsoft Edge Chromium versions are as follows.

• Beta Channel: 76.0.182.11
• Dev Channel: 77.0.197.1
• Canary Channel: 77.0.208.0

I have covered many Edge tricks and features in the following post:

Hands-on with the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge

Also, see the following updates.

• Microsoft Edge Chromium: Prepopulate Find with Text Selection
• Microsoft Edge Chromium Gets Tracking Prevention Settings
• Microsoft Edge Chromium: Change Display Language
• Group Policy Templates for Microsoft Edge Chromium
• Microsoft Edge Chromium: Pin Sites To Taskbar, IE Mode
• Microsoft Edge Chromium Will Allow Uninstalling PWAs as Desktop Apps
• Microsoft Edge Chromium Includes YouTube Video Info in Volume Control OSD
• Microsoft Edge Chromium Canary Features Dark Mode Improvements
• Show Icon Only for Bookmark in Microsoft Edge Chromium
• Autoplay Video Blocker is coming to Microsoft Edge Chromium
• Microsoft Edge Chromium is Receiving New Tab Page Customization Options
• Enable Microsoft Search in Microsoft Edge Chromium
• Grammar Tools Are Now Available in Microsoft Edge Chromium
• Microsoft Edge Chromium Now Follows System Dark Theme
• Here’s how Microsoft Edge Chromium looks on macOS
• Microsoft Edge Chromium now installs PWAs in the root of the Start menu
• Enable Translator in Microsoft Edge Chromium
• Microsoft Edge Chromium Dynamically Changes Its User Agent
• Microsoft Edge Chromium Warns When Running as Administrator
• Change Search Engine In Microsoft Edge Chromium
• Hide or Show Favorites Bar in Microsoft Edge Chromium
• Install Chrome Extensions in Microsoft Edge Chromium
• Enable Dark Mode in Microsoft Edge Chromium
• Chrome Features Removed and Replaced by Microsoft in Edge
• Microsoft Released Chromium-based Edge Preview Versions
• Chromium-Based Edge to Support 4K and HD Video Streams
• Microsoft Edge Insider extension now available in Microsoft Store
• Hands-on with the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge
• Microsoft Edge Insider Addons Page Revealed
• Microsoft Translator is Now Integrated with Microsoft Edge Chromium

Thanks to MDL.

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