Category: Microsoft Edge

.ou can enable Enhance text contrast in Microsoft Edge to improve font rendering in the browser. Today, Microsoft announced significantly improved font rendering for the Edge browser. The latest version of Edge Canary brings fine grain tuned contrast and gamma correction, plus ClearType Tuner support. All these changes will help text in Microsoft Edge match the quality and clarity of other native Windows applications and make fonts look better.

At the end of May 2021, Microsoft released Edge 91 with a bunch of performance improvements, some UI changes, and minor enhancements. Shortly after the rollout began, users started reporting annoying prompts from Edge. The browser tried to force users to change settings and set Edge as a default browser with the Bing search. Those prompts were consistent enough to piss off lots of users on the Internet. Luckily, enthusiasts quickly learned that they could fix the problem by disabling one of the experimental flags in Microsoft Edge. Now, it appears that Microsoft has officially solved the problem with annoying settings popups in the Edge browser.

Microsoft Edge Dev 92.0.902.2 is now available to Insiders. In addition to the traditional set of fixes, there are a number of new useful features. You can now make Edge auto-enable Reading mode for compatible websites. There are also improved PWA menus, and flyouts now remember their pinned state.

Here is how you can disable the Use recommended browser settings message in Microsoft Edge which automatically appears after updating the browser to version 91.

Microsoft Edge can now automatically open web pages in Immersive Reader if a website supports this mode. The latest update to Microsoft Edge in the Canary channel brought a new experimental flag that enables this feature in Immersive Reader.

Microsoft begins public rollout of Edge 91, a new version with improved performance and new shopping features. Thanks to the improvements made to Sleeping tabs and the return of Startup Boost, the browser is now much faster than before. In addition, a number of changes have been made to the Edge shopping experience.

Several days ago, Google released a new Chrome Canary version with a new experimental flag that enables something called "Sharing Hub." Sharing Hub is a dedicated button in Omnibox (the address bar) that combines several sharing-related features: copy link, generate a QR-code, save a page, and cast a page. Because Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome use the same rendering engine, many new features in Chrome make to Edge as well. If you use Edge Canary to test new features, you can now access Sharing Hub in the browser from Microsoft.

You can now block ads in Microsoft Edge on Android, as Microsoft has added the AdBlock Plus extension to the mobile browser.

Recently, Microsoft released a significant upgrade for the Edge browser on Android. The Canary and Dev versions now follow the same Chromium builds as their desktop counterparts, thus offer more capabilities and a faster development process. Still, some features, for some reason, got lost during the transition, for example, a built-in adblocker. After a short absence in the Canary channel, Microsoft brought the AdBlock Plus extension back to its mobile browser on Android.

With Edge 91 in the stable channel coming next few days, Microsoft moves preview channels to newer Chromium versions. With a new rendering engine come new features. Edge 92, which is now available in Canary, brings brand new menus to web apps. That change makes PWA feel more like native apps and optimizes menus for PWA-specific scenarios.