Edge on the Dev Channel is updated: support for biometric authentication arrives

Microsoft continues to update its Chromium-powered browser through various testing channels and now Biggest changes are coming to Edge Edge Dev , a channel that sees how it jumps from version 92 (now coming to the Beta Channel) to version 93

Microsoft has released the first build of Edge 93 on the Dev Channel, specifically the build number 93.0.910.5. For their part, those who use Edge on the Beta Channel can now also download a new version, the one with number 92.0.902.9. In the case of the Dev Channel version, we know the list of changes, while for the Beta Channel they are not yet reflected in

In this case there comes a series of interesting functions, some of them also designed to be used in macOS, such as the possibility of authenticating using fingerprints. Others of them had already gone through the Canary channel, such as the possibility of using the HTTPS mode automatically or a new menu to share web pages.

New functions

çAdded a button on Mac that will appear directly on certain videos to allow users to enter Picture-in-Picture modeAdded the ability on Mac to use fingerprint authentication to allow viewing or auto-filling a password. Added Share option to menu… in PWA and websites installed as apps.Latency of displayed images has been improved

Other improvements

• Fixed a crash when navigating to a website.
• Fix a crash when using the profile switcher in PWA.
• Fixed a crash when using Google Meet.
• Fixed an issue where certain Settings pages were blank.
• Fix an issue where the Immersive Reader toolbar was sometimes blank.
• Fix an issue where icons on the toolbar that had text bubbles, for example extension buttons, were clipped or only partially visible .
• Fixed an issue where pinning a website to the taskbar would sometimes fail.
• Fixed an issue where website notifications would sometimes not appear.
• Fixed an issue where theSave / Save As buttons in the Downloads popup were not displaying correctly on certain Languages.

• Fixed an issue on Mac where opening a new tab sometimes did not scroll the vertical tab panel to make it visible the newly opened tab.
• Fixed an issue where irrelevant data was saved by autocomplete.
• Fixed an issue where user-installed fonts would sometimes not display correctly.
• Fixed an issue where guided switching settings for specific websites were sometimes not honored.
• Disabled the ability to customize the list of sites for guided switching on devices that already have information protection applied The functionality is broken in this scenario.

Known Issues

• Certain extensions, such as the Microsoft Editor extension, do not work on Linux. As soon as they are installed, they are blocked and disabled. We are currently investigating.
• 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 are still having an issue where all tabs and extensions immediately crash with a error STATUS_INVALID_IMAGE_HASH Most common cause of this error is caused by out-of-date security or antivirus software from vendors such as Symantec, and in those cases, updating that software will fix it.
• Users of Kaspersky Internet Suite who have the associated extension installed may sometimes see web pages such as Gmail fail to load This error This is because Kaspersky's core software is outdated and therefore can be fixed by making sure the latest version is installed.
• Some users are still seeing duplicate favorites This issue should be reduced now that automatic deduplication has been introduced to Insider channels , but we are still implementing it in Stable. We've also seen duplications occur when running the manual deduplicator on multiple machines before any of them have had a chance to fully sync their changes, so make sure you allow plenty of time between runs of the deduplicator.
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• Some users are seeing wobble behavior> or touch screens, where 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 seems to be worse on certain devices. This is most likely related to our ongoing work to bring scrolling back to parity with Edge Legacy behavior, so if this behavior is undesirable, you can temporarily disable it by turning off the edge://flags/ flag edge-experimental-scrolling."

Via | Neowin