Microsoft Edge 130 stable is out with several improvements

Microsoft Edge 130.0.2849.46 is now available in the stable channel. The release is notable for much improved Settings > Appearance section. Also, the browser has got a bunch of new group policies for fine grain tuning of its features. Finally, there are also a number of quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes.

What's new in Microsoft Edge 130

Highlights

• Live Captions. The LiveCaptionsAllowed policy was available since Microsoft Edge version 103 but this feature isn't generally available. Clients that have the ExperimentationAndConfigurationServiceControl policy set to 'FullMode' might receive the feature before broad availability. Broad availability will be announced via Microsoft Edge release notes.
• Cancel dialog for beforeunload event. Microsoft Edge is changing the behavior of the cancel dialog for the beforeunload event in Microsoft Edge version 131. Starting in version 131, calling event.preventDefault in a beforeunload event handler won't prevent the dialog from being shown. Instead, event.returnValue = '' needs to be called in the beforeunload event handler to prevent the cancel dialog. The BeforeunloadEventCancelByPreventDefaultEnabled policy is being obsoleted and will no longer work after Microsoft Edge version 130.

Token Binding

Token Binding uses cryptographic certificates on both ends of the TLS connection in an attempt to close the security gap of bearer tokens, which may be lost or stolen. Token Binding is deprecated in Microsoft Edge version 130. Also, the AllowTokenBindingForUrls policy is now obsolete.

Copilot browser Context Policies

The EdgeEntraCopilotPageContext policy will be available starting from Microsoft Edge version 130 and will replace the CopilotCDPPageContext policy. The CopilotCDPPageContext policy is deprecated in Microsoft Edge version 130 and will be obsolete in Edge 133.

Elevating top settings and improving settings page navigability.

To make finding browser settings more efficient, Microsoft Edge is introducing three navigation improvements to Edge Settings. We aren’t changing the functionality of any setting, and all the settings stay on the same page as they are today but will be behind clickable sections. These changes are as follows.

• Introduce quick access to the most used Settings actions on the first place users land when entering Edge Settings (the Profiles page). Clicking the button with the name of the setting navigates users directly to its location.
• Make densely populated Settings pages (such as Privacy, search, and services, Appearance, Cookies and site permissions, System and performance) easier to navigate by introducing quick access to the most used actions located on that page. Clicking the button with the name of the setting takes users directly to its location.
• For these densely populated pages, each lengthy section of settings will be a clickable "table of contents" with descriptive subtexts. This helps users locate settings directly and avoid unnecessary scrolling.

Note: This feature is a controlled feature rollout. If you don't see this feature, check back as we continue our rollout.

Edge on macOS now seamlessly opens links in Teams

When Microsoft Edge is configured as the browser to open web links in Teams, then links in Teams chat will be opened through Edge, and Edge launches in the profile that matches with the authenticated profile, users can benefit from a seamless browsing experience that integrates their identity and user data across Microsoft apps. Administrators can control the availability of this feature using the "Choose Which Browser Opens Web Links" Microsoft 365 policy. Note: This feature is a controlled feature rollout. If you don't see this feature, check back as we continue our rollout.

Site compatibility impacting changes

• Compression dictionary transport with shared Brotli and shared Zstandard. This feature adds support for using designated previous responses, as an external dictionary for content encoding compressing responses with Brotli or Zstandard.Enterprises might experience potential compatibility issues with enterprise network infrastructure that intercepts HTTPS traffic and is sensitive to unknown content encodings. The CompressionDictionaryTransportEnabled policy is available to turn off the compression dictionary transport feature.
• Keyboard focusable scroll containers. This feature improves accessibility by making scroll containers focusable using sequential focus navigation. Today, the tab key doesn't focus scrollers unless tabIndex is explicitly set to 0 or more.By making scrollers focusable by default, users without a mouse can now focus clipped content using tab and arrow keys. This behavior is enabled only if the scroller does not contain any keyboard-focusable children. This logic is necessary so there are no regressions for existing focusable elements that might exist within a scroller like a <textarea>.

  If more time is needed to adjust to this new feature, the KeyboardFocusableScrollersEnabled policy is available from Edge 128.

Support non-special scheme URLs. Non-special scheme URLs are now supported, for example, git://example.com/path. Previously, the URL parser didn't support non-special URLs. The parser parses non-special URLs as if they had an opaque path, which is not aligned with the URL standard. Now, the URL parser parses non-special URLs correctly, following the URL standard.

Policy updates

New policies

EdgeEntraCopilotPageContext - Control access to page content for Entra ID Profiles accessing Microsoft Copilot with Enterprise Data Protection (EDP) from the Microsoft Edge sidebar

Deprecated policies

CopilotCDPPageContext - Control Copilot with Commercial Data Protection access to page context for Microsoft Entra ID profiles (deprecated)

Obsoleted policies

AllowTokenBindingForUrls - Configure the list of sites for which Microsoft Edge will attempt to establish a Token Binding with (obsolete)

New features

• Added the ‘Custom Image Upload’ feature in the new settings appearance page.
• Added a loading view icon while the PDF is loading on android.
• Implemented button functionality in the permission prompt on the web UI2.
• Added a ‘Theme Description’ and ‘Theme Type Label’ section in the updated settings/appearance page.

Improvements and fixes

• Fixed an issue where browser would crash when opening the Settings page on Xbox.
• Fixed an issue when signing in with both MSA and AAD, then signing out of an account, would     cause browser to crash on iOS.
• Resolved an issue that caused a crash when activating Tab Center with existing groups.
• Resolved an issue where browser crashes after being open for a while.
• Fixed an issue where logging into a different MSA account would cause browser to crash on iOS.
• Resolved an issue where browser crashes after installing the Dark Reader extension on Android.
• Fixed a crash issue in the Passwords settings on Android.
• Resolved an issue where browser would crash after scanning a QR code during account transfer in an already installed case.
• Resolved an issue when logging out of an MSA account caused browser to crash, preventing a successful logout on iOS.
• Fixed an issue where the shortcut for the ‘Manage Favorites’ menu item on the favorites bar was incorrect.
• Fixed an issue where the Name property was not defined for all the checkboxes and the edit field on the Workspace internals page.
• Resolved an issue where the X button in the search box was not centered when focused using the Tab key in the favorite's hub.
• Fixed an issue where, after removing the search app from the sidebar, clicking on Visual Search did not open the Visual Search page.
• Fixed an issue where there was no response when closing the search result panel with the Enter key in the Favorites hub.
• Resolved an issue where the Settings banner was incorrectly displayed on the Settings page, ensuring it now appears only once.
• Resolved an issue where the icon badge color was incorrect with the ‘System default’ theme in dark mode within the Settings appearance.
• Resolved an issue where the new group was generated successfully, but the previously generated group became ungrouped.
• Fixed an issue where the close button was missing in modal dialogs.
• Fixed an issue where clicking the site icon on the taskbar controller did not work after opening the site side pane from the sidebar and minimizing the browser.
• Resolved an issue where the Add Split Screen option was missing from the toolbar and only available in the ‘More’ menu.
• Fixed an issue where tabs displayed URLs in ‘Tab groups’ from the Favorites/Collections group.
• Resolved an issue where Autofill was not working for coupons in the browser.
• Fixed an issue where browser would crash when clicking ‘Permissions and Privacy’ on any site in the sidebar.
• Fixed an issue where; after logging out, the Favorites hub displayed the workspace. Clicking on the workspace would cause the browser to crash.
• Fixed an issue where browser would crash when dragging a tab to create a new window on iOS.
• Resolved an issue where the ‘Magnify Image’ tooltip was not displaying for the close button.
• Resolved an issue where the ‘Open in new…’ button was unavailable when right-clicking an item in the Favorites Hub/Panel.
• Resolved an issue where the tab actions menu hub closed after opening a group tab in a new tab within the window card under the tab actions menu.
• Fixed an issue where the banner title would not display normally after right-clicking ‘Show Media Control’ and hovering over the browser icon.
• Fixed an issue where icons were missing in the settings under the sidebar.

Mac

• Resolved an issue where the toolbar would cover content below when ‘Automatically hide and show the menu bar’ was set to ‘Never’ in system settings on Mac.
• Fixed an issue where pressing ‘Esc’ did not exit full screen mode.
• Resolved an issue where three extra lines appeared in full screen mode on Mac.
• Resolved an issue where the ‘Pick a color’ function in the theme settings could not be used under ‘Settings and More’ on Mac.
• Resolved an issue where the URL in the address bar was not properly visible after selection in Light mode with a theme applied on Mac.

iOS

• Resolved an issue where the frame and background color became invisible when the page layout was set to Inspirational mode in dark mode on iOS.
• Resolved an issue when after clicking the share button of a downloaded file, a pop-up window appears in the wrong location on iOS.
• Resolved an issue where the Rewards page was unable to load an image on iOS.
• Fixed an issue where the font size of the ‘Microsoft Rewards’ page increased in landscape mode on iOS.
• Fixed an issue where the font size of the ‘Microsoft Rewards’ page increased in landscape mode on iOS.
• Resolved an issue where files sometimes could not be opened properly after downloading on iOS.
• Resolved an issue where the NTP was broken after switching accounts in split screen mode on iOS.
• Resolved an issue where users couldn’t scroll down to view feeds on iOS.
• Fixed an issue where the upper left corner of the profile popover was not rounded in the account panel on iOS.

Android

• Fixed an issue where an exception occurred on the page when editing top sites in landscape mode on android.
• Fixed an issue where the title for most visited sites overlapped on android.
• Resolved an issue where keyboard focus does not navigate to the controls on the Extensions page on android.
• Resolved an issue where the top tab title bar color and the InPrivate tab group background color appeared abnormal on android.
• Fixed an issue where the shopping cashback page would incorrectly appear on the New Tab Page (NTP) when clicking the back button on mobile after visiting shopping websites with cashback offers.
• Fixed an issue where Talk Back in the Android settings did not announce the selected state of chat and search list items.
• Fixed an issue where the tooltip continued to display after clicking the back button and appeared in the wrong location under the extension on Android.
• Fixed an issue when clicking on an Outlook link to open browser caused the browser title in the background to display ‘Microsoft Edge First Run Experience’ on Android.
• Resolved an issue where a colored circle icon appeared in the upper left corner of the tab group on android.
• Resolved an issue where the input box was not displayed when editing Top sites names on Android on new tab page.
• Fixed an issue where menu items were displayed abnormally in the overflow menu while in InPrivate mode on android.

You will find the official announcement here.