Category: Microsoft Edge

A small improvement has landed in the Canary version of Microsoft Edge to the Quick Links feature. Microsoft is actively working on quick list. Recently, the company has added website suggestions and an update notification badge for Quick Links on New Tab Page. Today's update adds the ability to collapse the Quick Links section.

How to Enable or Disable Site and Search Suggestions in Edge Address Bar

As you type in the address bar, Edge sends the information you entered, along with which suggestion you select, position of selection, and other address bar data to your default search provider. This allows the browser to form and show search suggestions in the address bar, along with web sites that match the typed criteria. If you are not happy with this feature, you can disable it. The appropriate option is available in the privacy section of  Edge's settings.

Microsoft has published the release schedule for the Chromium-based Edge browser. The document covers release dates for versions up to 89, and covers two channels, Beta and Stable.

Microsoft has issued a minor update to the Edge browser. Today's release includes just 3 fixes.

Microsoft has added a couple of new features to the New Tab Page in Edge Canary. The browser now displays quick suggestions when you are adding a website tile to the web site. For already added tiles, Edge displays website updates with quick links, so you can quickly go to a new post. This two useful features are exclusive to Edge and are not available in Chrome.

With today's Canary release, Microsoft has added a new flag to Microsoft Edge that is designed to be used instead of the previous one when it comes to hiding or showing the https and www portions of URLs in the address bar.

How to Enable or Disable Reload in Internet Explorer mode in Microsoft Edge

Starting in Edge build 86.0.579.0, the browser includes two new options that extend functionality of Internet Explorer mode. They are intended to improve Edge compatibility with legacy web apps, without switching to Internet Explorer directly.

As you may remember, with Chromium 86 as base, Edge Canary started hiding HTTPS and WWW portions in the address bar. After receiving users' feedback Microsoft has restored these URL portions. The user can now define to show or hide them with a flag.

Microsoft today released Edge 84 to the stable branch users. It is a major release of the browser, which includes plenty of changes and new features.