Give us an option to remove it if we don't want to use it instead of editing the registry. Personally I find it distracting because it opens up a sidebar I don't use, plus it looks big and ugly. Don't lock us into features we don't want to use.

The new edge crashes if you type the following in the address bar:
stan marsh

Quick back story:

Recently did some home networking upgrades and right after, video streaming on edge and chrome started to suck, could not get 720P, lots of stutter and buffering. Yet, everything worked fine on Firefox and on Edge on my laptop.

Tried all the standard solutions, reinstall, disabling hardware acceleration, clearing the cache, none of it worked.

Then I found the following solution:

edge://flags/ and setting Experimental QUIC protocol to disabled.

Everything is now working perfect for me now.

Hope this helps

For the last 2 months I've noticed that whenever I hit CTRL + C to copy text from the new Microsoft Edge it just won't work half the time.

Works if I Right Click the highlighted text and hit Copy

Works if I spam click CTRL + C about 5 times

This is happening from more than just one PC. I thought it could have been my laptop going bad, but this happens on my Work PC, My Gaming PC, and my Laptop. Furthermore, I've not had this issue in any other programs. Every time I have this happen (Daily) I check to see if there are any new updates to address this issue.

Am I crazy, or is anyone else running into this. Makes the new edge very frustrating to use.

While I understand that as a company Microsoft has to push its services, this amount of intrusiveness is just a really bad experience.

(Edge is the default and infact the only browser I have installed on my system currently, but I plan to switch back to Firefox)

Since the last few weeks, Edge (and Windows) has gotten overly aggressive at pushing me to set Bing as the default search engine. And it does so in multiple (annoying) ways -

• A pop-up screen everytime I open the browser that pushes me to set 'Microsoft recommended browser settings'.

• A message on the main settings page that says 'restore recommended' and opens up to show 'set edge as default (fine) and set Bing as default search engine'.

• And the worst of all, an occasional message to 'complete windows setup' that just shows 2 recommendations - to get office 365, and ofcourse, to set edge as default browser and set Bing as default search engine.

Is anyone able to help me with a bug where a one pixel white line shows at the top of a full screen video only when a subtitle is showing. I have searched the internet and i cannot find anything. Is anyone able to help?

Seriously though, I really like Edge. Me and my friend immediately switched from Chrome to Edge Chromium when it was released.

I like to keep lots of, lots of browser tabs open. I mean 1,000+ or even 2,000+ tabs.

Why that many tabs? Because I like to open links in new tabs and check those tabs later, kind of like a "watch later" list. However, many of those tabs ended up not being checked and closed until now. Also, I'm too lazy to find and close the tabs I don't need. Maybe I will need those tabs sometime later? So now I have nearly 2,000 open tabs in Edge.

With only 16GB physical RAM, it's impossible to load all 2,000 tabs, of course. Edge will discard (unload) tabs on low memory, and I will manually discard tabs if there's still not enough memory. I use some JavaScript to discard the tabs, because edge://discards will become unresponsive when you have that many tabs open.

And, of course, I don't want to lose those open tabs when I have to close the browser, so I set it to restore the last browsing session at launch. Even if the browser crashes or closes unexpectedly, I still have a chance to restore those tabs.

How to manage those tabs? Thanks to some features like vertical tabs, tab grouping, tab searching, window naming, and virtual desktops on Windows, I am still able to manage and categorize tabs when there's more than a thousand tabs.

(This may not be a good habit, and using favorites and collections may be a better approach, but this is how I'm using Microsoft Edge now)

Everything worked fine, until a certain Windows update added a feature that shows Microsoft Edge tabs in Alt-Tab view. I set Alt-Tab to show open windows only, which should turn this feature off. However, when I have that many open tabs, the existence of this feature still brings new issues.

First, the responsiveness of Task View drops significantly. When there are hundreds of open Edge tabs, it may take you several seconds or even half a minute to open Task View once. And it may take you even longer to drag-and-drop browser windows between virtual desktops. Explorer will have a high CPU usage during the unresponsive time of Task View (and an unresponsive Task View is annoying because Task Manager is the only program that can appear above Task View). Restarting Explorer doesn't help, and restarting Explorer will become time-consuming as well, as long as there are that many Edge tabs open.

Also, if the count of open Edge tabs reaches about 2,000, File Explorer will become completely broken. It will be unable to redraw icons and texts. Restarting Explorer still doesn't help, unless you decrease the open tab count.

After some research I found the reason why Explorer got broken. In Windows, each process can have 10,000 USER objects and 10,000 GDI objects at most. As I open more and more Edge tabs, GDI objects and USER objects owned by Explorer also increases.

As shown in the screenshot, when I have about 1,000 open Edge tabs, Explorer has 5,650 GDI objects, which is more than half the maximum count (10,000). So as the tab count increases, Explorer will hit the limit of GDI or USER objects at some point and become unable to create more of them, which breaks its UI.

If you don't keep many tabs open, use other browsers, or are using a version of Windows without this Alt-Tab feature, you probably won't find this issue.

If someone wants to reproduce this issue, you can try this:

1. Open lots of, lots of tabs in Microsoft Edge. Note that the tabs only need to be "open", not "loaded", so you can discard all tabs immediately after opening them. You can, for example, open 50 tabs, discard all of them, then open another 50 tabs. You might need at least a few hundred tabs. The URLs you use do not matter. Even about:blank is okay.

2. If you want to see how slow Task View is, launch Task Manager first and make it always on top, then open Task View, create a virtual desktop, and drag the Microsoft Edge window into it. Task View might become unresponsive for a few second or a few minutes, depending on the open tab count. If it's taking too long, kill Microsoft Edge and restart Explorer with Task Manager.

3. Restart Explorer. Explorer will take much longer time to become usable. The more tabs are opened, the longer it takes.

4. Check the GDI and USER handle count of Explorer. When one of them reaches 10,000, Explorer will become broken.

Finally, I wrote my own program as a workaround. I found that if the object creation of the Windows Runtime class WindowsUdk.UI.Shell.WindowTabManager gets blocked, Microsoft Edge will think that the system does not have this feature and works without it, getting rid of that issue. So I wrote a program to inject hook code into Edge process before it launches.

I'm not sure whether it's an Edge issue or a Windows issue. But as the Alt-Tab feature is turned off, I shouldn't be affected by this issue.

System information:

• Microsoft Edge v108.0.1462.76

• Windows 10 Home 22H2 64-bit

EDIT:

In Edge v118.0.2088.46 Microsoft removed the #edge-window-tab-manager flag and it no longer works. However the issue mentioned in this post is still not fixed.

I tried my program written before and found that now I should block the WinRT class Windows.UI.Shell.WindowTabManager.

For those who are interested in my program, here's the GitHub link:

https://github.com/gexgd0419/EdgeWindowTabManagerBlock

In the current release version, this program only works if you launch the first Edge window by running the program manually. If you launch Edge directly then it won't work.

EDIT:

The #edge-window-tab-manager flag is back again on Edge v120.0.2210.61. Update to this version, set this flag to Disabled, and it should work.

The flag's gone again! But hey, here's a new version v0.4 of my GitHub program. Now if you choose to register the program as an IFEO debugger for Microsoft Edge, you can launch Edge in your usual way without running the program manually, and it can still work!

Where to begin:

1. "Start to Collect": WHO ASKED FOR THIS????? Get rid of it, or give me the option to turn it off!!!!!!!

2. "Following": Didn't ask for this either, but at least it can be turned off in settings. Still not sure I see the utility of this, but I don't "follow creators" anyway.

3. "Add tab groups to collections" is GONE. So much for the ability to "save" tab groups and restore them later. This is IMPORTANT, because if you have multiple windows open and close the one with tab groups first, the tab groups disappear even if "Open tabs from the previous session" is selected (yes, I understand why, which is why I started saving my tab groups to collections in the first place . . .).

4. Cannot add multiple tabs to a collection in any way, shape or form that I can see. (See #3 above for need).

5. This may be an artifact left behind by the (forced) upgrade, but when I click "see all", I found several collections I never created!

6. Collections can ONLY be accessed in a sidebar which is not configurable as a flyout (e.g. unpinned). Why, oh why, is MS forcing everything into sidebars that take up screen real estate anyway? I happen to have a huge monitor and even with that I find static sidebars a complete waste of space.

7. Not that it ever had them, but there are zero setting available to customize the behavior/functionality of collections except for turning off "following" as noted above. This would be useful, however it posits that the user has some sort of valid use case/opinion re: using collections that would be considered by the product team. Never mind . . .

If I try to understand the rationale, I guess maybe it boils down to me using Tab Groups "incorrectly", as I am really using them like collections. And then using collections to "back them up", which is not really the function of collections. However, given the limitations expressed in #3, #4, and #6 above, using collections as (now) apparently "designed" is cumbersome and frustrating. Maybe I should just bookmark them as favorites, because that certainly would be less messy. 🙄

Again, I'm not opposed to adding stuff (e.g. the "following" tab), especially if it can be turned off, however the deprecation of functionality without announcement, choice, etc. is super frustrating. Thanks for making Edge LESS useful folks.

...bing not having a dark mode not only degrades the User Experience of the search engine, but also of the Microsoft Edge browser and of Windows 11 itself.

I've checked, and the requests & queries for the dark mode in Bing go back upto 4 YEARS!

Even google had dark mode in beta by July last year, and major browsers have been supporting dark mode since 2019. So it's very unusual and inconvenient to have bing in bright white when your whole workflow of OS & browser support and use dark mode. And not to forget that dark mode can be a want for its cosmetics, as well as a need for the accessibility it can provide a user.

It becomes more of a evident problem when you consider the fact that microsoft edge's default search engine is bing, and it is even a default for and tied to many a experiences in the Windows OS itself. It's high time Bing gets a dark mode, since Microsoft has been keenly focusing on UX and UI lately, and bing not having a dark mode not only degrades the User Experience of the search engine, but also of the Microsoft Edge browser and Windows 11 itself.

Edit: Dark reader affects browser performance & Edge's dark mode flag doesn't give reliable experience across the internet.

Edit 2: Dark mode is here! You can enable it from the hamburger menu! (Three horizontal lines on the top right)