Category: Microsoft Edge

After a couple of months of extensive testing and numerous improvements, Microsoft finally released Super-Duper Secure Mode (SDSM) for all users in the Stable channel. The feature arrived without much fanfare in the latest version of Microsoft Edge, which, by the time of writing, is 96.0.1054.29. To check your Microsoft Edge version, go to edge://settings/help.

Microsoft has released a new stable version of the Microsoft Edge browser. Part of the new 4-week release cycle, it brings version 96 to the end user. The new version is rolling out gradually, so you may have to wait a few days before Edge 96 is available to you.

Microsoft has released a new Chromium-based build of Microsoft Edge 97.0.1069.0 to the Dev Channel. It traditionally brings with it several new features as well as various fixes and improvements.

Microsoft is actively working on improving the recently introduced Citations feature in its Edge browser. It now has its own flyout. Besides this change, you will find a few improvements to the Find on page feature. Specially, it can form "related matches" and can help you search more efficiently.

The latest preview build of Windows 11 has made some "under-the-hood" changes to prevent users from bypassing Edge-enforcing policies. Those policies make changing the default browser in Windows 11 a painful and annoying experience, and they do not allow opening specific links within Windows 11 in browsers other than Microsoft Edge. For example, you cannot open links from Windows Widgets in Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. Edge Deflector, a third-party tool from Daniel Aleksandersen, used to fix that annoyance.

Windows 11 and 10 have a dedicated microsoft-edge:// protocol for opening specific links explicitly in the Edge browser—formerly in Edge Legacy and now in Edge Chromium. Regardless of your default browser choice, Windows opens those links in Edge Chromium in an attempt to get more users for the browser.

When you make a right-click action in Edge, the browser reveals a hefty list of various commands and actions. And it seems that Microsoft does not plan to stop shoving even more options to that list. The latest version of Microsoft Edge Canary received a fresh "New Office Tab" option that lets you create a new document.

Microsoft today released a new Dev build of the Edge browser. In short, it comes with a new Extensions button enabled by default, adds the ability to pin the Edge bar (formerly Edge widget) to any side of the screen, and a number of new policies. You can also set it as your default XML handler app. Here are some details.

You can finally add exceptions to Super-Duper Secure Mode in Edge. Not so long ago, Microsoft introduced a new security feature for the Edge browser called "Super-Duper Secure Mode" or SDSM. SDSM improves security by disabling the JIT compiler in the V8 JavaScript engine and applying additional security mitigations.