Category: Microsoft Edge

In Microsoft Edge Dev and Canary builds, Microsoft has begun testing ink enhancements that the company claims reduced latency by 240%. This means that Edge users can now draw quickly and smoothly in the browser. To give the changes a try, you need the latest versions of Microsoft Edge Dev and Windows 11 Insider Preview.

Microsoft today released a new Dev builds of Microsoft Edge. it is based on Chromium 94, and adds the ability to adjust the text width in Immersive Reader, the feature that landed in the Canary channel just a few days ago. There are a few more new features, and a bunch of fixes included in Edge Dev 94.0.982.2.

Since Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome use the same rendering engine, the two browsers share many features. Still, some capabilities arrive in Microsoft Edge much later compared to Google Chrome. Tab Search is one of such features. Stable versions of Chrome offer the tab search button for quite a long time now, while Microsoft continues experimenting with that for almost a year. In the latest update to Edge Canary, Microsoft added a new button to invoke tab search in the browser.

Recently, Microsoft introduced a new experimental flag for its Edge browser called "Super-Duper Secure Mode." When enabled, the flag disables JIT in the JavaScript V8 engine to make Edge safer. JIT (just-in-time) is a compiler that preloads JavaScript code before the browser needs it to improve performance and make it feel snappier. According to Microsoft, half of the bugs in the V8 engine have their roots tied to JIT; thus, disabling the technology improves security significantly.

The latest update for Microsoft Edge Canary brings an improved Immersive Reader with more customization options. In version 94.0.981.0, users can adjust text width in Immersive Reader and switch between narrow, medium, and wide column sizes.

Here is another significant change Microsoft made in the latest update to Edge Canary. Previously we covered a new feature that allows you to open favorites folders in tab groups, and now Microsoft brings a new section to Edge's settings.

Microsoft has released a new build of Chromium-based Microsoft Edge 94.0.975.1 for the Dev Channel. It brings several new features as well as various fixes and improvements.

In Microsoft Edge, you can store bookmarks in different folders for improved sorting and convenience. Also, the browser allows opening all favorites in a folder with a single click in a new or current window. In the most recent update to Edge Canary, Microsoft added another option: open favorites in a new tab group.

Microsoft continues improving Performance Mode (recently renamed to Efficiency Mode) with new features and capabilities to let you run the Edge browser as smoothly as possible, even on budget hardware. "Sleeping Tabs" is a cornerstone of Efficiency Mode that allows you to save RAM and CPU resources by putting inactive pages to sleep. In Edge 92 Stable, the browser freezes tabs after no less than 5 minutes of inactivity. In Edge 94, that timeout reduced almost to zero.

Microsoft Edge allows you to enable the Save as PDF context menu command in Microsoft Edge. A new option in settings makes it easy to add or remove it.