As we had already warned you last week, Microsoft Edge Dev reaches version 97 after version 96.0.1047.2. And this time it focuses on improvements in printing and other details that we will see below in Edge 97.
Microsoft Edge Dev is updated to version 97.0.1060.2
Added features in Edge
- The ability to draw arbitrary highlights on PDF files has been added.
- Added an option to print odd or even pages.
- Auto-fill and create blended passwords on account registration web pages so you can create new website accounts with one click.
- Combined personal information and payment information are automatically filled in on certain shopping websites so that coupons can be applied and paid with a single click.
- Enabled by default one-click password update by adding a button to the leaked password settings page that goes directly to the website’s password update page and then using password generation to automatically fill in a new password.
- Added Downloads button to windows opened with –app command line prompt.
- New Management Policies (Administrative Templates and Documentation Updates may not have been released yet):
- A policy has been added to control whether the Internet Explorer mode toolbar button is enabled.
- Included a policy to control whether Edge’s ability to automatically enhance images is enabled.
- Built-in directive to control whether accessibility image tags are enabled, which controls whether a service can be used to generate descriptions for images that do not already have them.
- Developer
- An experimental webView2 API has been added to control basic website authentication (Problem 120).
- Added an experimental API to WebView2 applications to send and receive post-iframes web messages (Problem 139).
- New API for WebView2 applications to query the location of the user data folder.
Performance improvements
- Fixed a crash at launch on Linux.
- Fixed a crash on Mac when clicking the… button.
- Removed a crash on Mac when updating the browser.
- Found a crash when closing the browser.
- Found a crash when closing certain pop-up windows.
- Solved a crash when searching for text in a PDF.
- Fixed a crash when using video capture.
- Fixed a Web Widget crash when switching profiles.
- Smartphone
- Fixed a crash when typing in the address bar.
- Fixed an issue where closing the browser and then reopening it will immediately crash it.
- Mitigated a crash when sending a tab to another device.
- Completed a crash when viewing certain Settings pages.
- Eradicated a crash when browsing on iOS when using a VPN.
- Fixed a crash when navigating tabs in IE mode.
- Removed a crash in Kids mode when installing a theme.
- Fixed an issue where background processes would frequently hang, causing high CPU usage.
- Developer:
- Fixed a crash in WebView2 applications when using certain management directives (Problem 1860).
- A crash in WebView2 applications has been ended after downloading a file (Problem 1723, Problem 1765).
Behavior improvements
- The name of Web Widget has been changed to Edge Bar.
- Changed the keyboard shortcut to open a new Application Guard window.
- Reduced the number of alerts that the browser is out of date for work or school users whose browser (and therefore updates) is managed by your organization.
- Reduced the number of sites that update to HTTPS when automatic HTTPS is enabled that shouldn’t be, such as intranet sites.
- Amended an issue where automatic https can sometimes cause navigations to hang if the website forcibly navigates back to an HTTP page.
- Fixed an issue where the PDF layout is remembered between print jobs when it shouldn’t be, causing the default print layout to be incorrect for the current PDF page layout.
- Mitigated an issue where PDF files with portrait and landscape pages do not print correctly because all pages are forced into a single layout.
- Completed an issue where the browser constantly steals the focus of other applications.
- Fixed an issue where an error sometimes occurs when trying to display the original text after translating the text on a web page.
- Found the issue where an error occurs when dragging and dropping files onto web pages to upload.
- Fixed an issue where mini context menus appeared on websites that they shouldn’t because those websites have their own menus that appear when selecting text.
- Fixed an issue where context menus would not appear when activated by touching a touch screen.
- Fixed an issue where the vertical tab panel scrolls more slowly with large turns of the mouse wheel than with small turns.
- Fixed an issue where bulk password removal on the Password Settings page does not honor the current page filter.
- Fixed an issue where pinned side panels would appear at the top of full screen web pages.
- Completed an issue where double clicking on a word to select it sometimes does not work.
- Eliminated an issue where Smart Copy would sometimes cause certain data to be copied twice.
- Fixed an issue where searches sometimes fail when using Family Safety.
- Fixed an issue where a dialog box appears unexpectedly to choose an application to handle certain links.
- Fixed an issue where certain UI is difficult to see or is colored incorrectly if custom themes are installed.
- Fixed an issue where the user’s profile image does not load when logging in to the browser.
- Smartphone:
- Fixed an issue where the settings to choose whether links can start external applications were missing.
- Eliminated an issue where web page location permissions were being requested more frequently than expected.
- Fixed an issue where the guided switch would sometimes not work.
- Amended an issue where certain internal sites cannot be logged into certain internal sites for work or school users.
- Mitigated an issue where downloads sometimes fail.
- Fixed an issue on iOS where certain files would not download.
- Found a problem in Android in which sometimes the work or school accounts cannot be accessed and, instead, it is requested to log in to the browser even if the user is already logged in.
- Developer
- Fixed an issue where WebView2 applications do not work properly when StartupUri does not create the main view (Problem 1577).
- Fixed an exception in NET-based WebView2 Applications (Problem 946).
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