One more week we are with a new compilation of Microsoft Edge on the Dev channel. Remind you that they have a weekly frequency and that we see very interesting things. This time we have the latest version of compilation 96, next week we will go to 97. In this version they also remember that the team has released its first PWA Summit, very interesting to see everything that can be done as PWAs.
Also, the Microsoft Edge team wants us to decide on the layout of the scroll bars. You can carry out the survey through this link and help them in the decision. These people do not stop improving the design of the browser and it shows.
Greetings, Insiders! Dev channel update to 96.0.1047.2 is going live today. We have a lot of fixes we implemented this week, so head over to our Insider forums to read up on what we worked on this week from Josh: https://t.co/u7ArMf0HLT pic.twitter.com/coPMBQ6GUE
– Microsoft Edge Dev (@MSEdgeDev) October 20, 2021
Microsoft Edge Dev is updated to version 96.0.1047.2
Added features in Edge
- Added support for displaying the Downloads button and menu in pop-ups that do not have a standard address bar / toolbar.
- Support for adding citations to items in a Collection has been added.
- Added more support for resetting sync data for work and school accounts.
- Including support for Super Duper safe mode on Linux.
- Added a management policy to control Internet Explorer integration complex navigation data types, which controls how form data and headings are submitted on tabs in IE mode. Note that administrative template or documentation updates may not have occurred yet.
- Added an API for WebVew2 applications to print to PDF (Problem 364).
Performance improvements
- Fixed a crash when a web page displays a pop-up alert.
- Fixed a crash when using the Web Widget.
- Solved a crash when activating or deactivating synchronization.
- Removed a crash when opening a popup window like… by clicking its button on the toolbar.
- Smartphone:
- Found a crash after logging out of the browser.
- Mitigated a crash when saving a password.
- Amended a block when a website requests a new permission.
Behavior improvements
- Fixed an issue where syncing would not work for work and school accounts.
- Found and fixed an issue where certain websites were not working when Super Duper safe mode was enabled.
- Completed an issue where the Collections panel sometimes cannot be closed.
- Fixed an issue where editing text in a collection sometimes causes the panel to scroll unexpectedly.
- Fixed an issue where sidebar searches would sometimes show a content break.
- Fixed an issue where the What’s New page did not appear after updating the browser.
- Smartphone:
- Improved ad blocking on certain websites.
- Fixed an issue where the browser sometimes cannot log in.
- Fixed an issue where a sync error dialog sometimes appears and when clicked, it doesn’t navigate to sync settings.
- Fixed an issue where proxy settings were sometimes being ignored.
- Fixed an issue where clickable links in InPrivate tabs sometimes open in non-InPrivate tabs.
- Fixed an issue where certain settings were not remembered after being activated.
- Fixed an issue where the new tab page was displayed incorrectly.
- Mitigated an issue where InPrivate would sometimes not be disabled via management policy when it should be.
- Eliminated an issue where Rewards would request a login to a business or school account, even though Rewards is not available for that account type.
- Completed an issue where certain internal websites would sometimes not load correctly for business or educational users.
- Fixed an issue where websites sometimes have to log in twice in a row to be able to log into the site.
- Found an issue where tabs sometimes close unexpectedly.
- An exception has been fixed in WebView2 applications (Problem 1781).
Known bugs for this build
- Users of certain ad blocking extensions may experience playback errors on YouTube. As a workaround, temporarily disabling the extension should allow playback to continue.
- Some users still have an issue where all tabs and extensions crash immediately with a STATUS_INVALID_IMAGE_HASH error. The most common cause of this error is outdated antivirus or security software from vendors like Symantec, and in those cases, updating that software will fix it.
- Kaspersky Internet Suite users who have the associated extension installed can sometimes see web pages like Gmail not loading. This error is due to the main Kaspersky software being out of date, so it is fixed by making sure the latest version is installed.
- Some users are seeing “wobbling” behavior when scrolling using trackpad gestures or touch screens. Here scrolling in one dimension also causes the page to subtly scroll back and forth in the other. Note that this only affects certain websites and appears to be worse on certain devices. This is probably related to the work in progress to bring the offset back to parity with Edge Legacy behavior. So if this behavior is undesirable, we can temporarily disable it. Disabling the edge flag: // flags / # edge-experimental-scrolling