Category: Microsoft Edge

On the official Tech Community forums, Microsoft announced a new tool to provide users with a better understanding of how ad companies use personal data to display ads.

A simple typo in a website address can cause a lot of trouble. Malicious actors often utilize common mistakes in addresses to redirect users to legit-looking websites and infect computers with malware, steal personal data, or show ads. For that reason, many popular companies buy related domain names to prevent typo-related fraud.

Microsoft is constantly improving the Edge browser in a variety of areas. Today's Canary build adds a new feature to its accessibility options. Edge can now generate text descriptions automatically for images that have no ALT attributes and other text information.

Microsoft is working on improving built-in privacy tools in the Edge browser to provide users with a clearer explanation of how various companies track people on the Internet. The latest update for Edge Canary has brought a redesigned section with the list of blocked and allowed trackers.

Recently released Edge Chromium for Xbox consoles (the browser is available on the Xbox One and Xbox Series console family) is getting one neat feature that allows you to set any picture as the dashboard background. Eden Marie, Xbox Engineering Lead, announced the capability in her Twitter account.

Apart from adding questionable and controversial features to its browser, Microsoft is working on numerous quality-of-life improvements for Edge. After all, the company tries hard and goes out of its way to convert every user to Edge on every device, regardless of its operating system or power level. The latest update for Microsoft Edge Canary has brought yet another performance-boosting feature that will help the browser operate at the optimal level without abusing your hardware.

Not so long ago, Microsoft unified Edge's codebase across all platforms, effectively bringing its browser on all operating systems under one umbrella. That change allowed developers to keep a single Edge version on all platforms and deliver new features faster. Still, it took Microsoft some time to release cross-platform features in Edge for all devices. One of such features is the built-in game Surf, which has only now arrived for Edge on iOS.

On September 2, 2021, Microsoft has added the Surf game to the Canary version of Edge for Android. Today, the Edge team announced that the game is now available in the stable release of the browser.

On December 2, Microsoft has started updating the Beta channel with a new version of Edge. The released version is 97.0.1072.21, and it is quite impressive. It finally allows opening digitally signed PDF files, brings Citations to Collections, and allows selecting which account to use when signing in to websites.

For some reason, Microsoft cannot comprehend that it does not need user-hostile practices to advertise its browser. Many users agree that Edge Chromium is one of the best alternatives to Chrome and its ever-growing list of privacy concerns. Edge no longer breaks when you try to load YouTube, and its users do not need to wait for six months or more to receive a feature update. Still, Microsoft thinks that is not enough.