Edge now has the ability to translate selected text thanks to the latest update on the Dev Channel

Microsoft continues to bet on bringing new features to its brand new Chromium-based browser and now it is the version that can be downloaded and tested from the Dev Channel that receives a more than interesting feature such aspossibility of translating the text selected on the screen

This improvement comes with the release of build number 87.0.658.0 within the Dev Channel and along with this improvement comes with a good number of bugs and bug fixeswith a view to being released in the Beta Channel but also in the stable version.This is the list of changes we are going to find.

New functions

• Added the ability to translate selected text on a page.
• Now we can set to never be translated from a particular site.
• Add an administration policy to configure speech recognition.
• The admin policy for enabling deprecated web platform features has been deprecated.

Improved Reliability

• Fix an issue where opening Edge would sometimes cause the device to cause a blue screen.
• Fixed an issue where opening the Downloads management page sometimes crashes the browser.
• Fixed a crash when opening a website installed as an application.
• Fix a crash when Password Monitor displays an alert.
• Fixes an issue where using certain accessibility features such as Narrator sometimes caused tabs to hang in certain versions of Windows 10.
• Fixed an issue where dragging items into a collection sometimes crashes the collections panel.
• Fix an issue where Edge sometimes opens many command prompt windows with ERROR: file io win.cc (180).

Other improvements

• Cards that appear when you hover over tabs are temporarily disabled.
• Fix an issue where there are sometimes blank spaces between tabs or between the new tab button and the last tab.
• Fixed an issue where Read Aloud sometimes doesn't start reading from the current location in PDF files.
• Fixed an issue where the profile image in the taskbar shortcut does not match the image in the browser.
• Fixed an issue where search on the history management page sometimes didn't work.
• Fixed an issue where using the guided switch opens an additional new tab.
• Fix an issue where guided switching was sometimes triggered for popups.
• Fixes an issue where selected text in PDF files is sometimes not deselected when it should.
• Fixed an issue where hotkeys registered by extensions sometimes did not work.

Known Issues

• Users of certain ad-blocking extensions may experience Youtube playback errors As an alternative solution, temporary deactivation of the extension is proposed , which should allow playback to continue. Here are more details about it.
• Some users still have a problem where all tabs and extensions immediately crash 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.
• Users of Kaspersky Internet Suite with the associated extension installed may sometimes see web pages such as Gmail not loading. This error is caused by the fact that Kaspersky's core software is not up to date, and therefore it can be solved by making sure that the latest version is installed.
• Some users are seeing duplicate bookmarks after previous fixes. The most common way this is triggered is by installing Edge's stable channel and then signing in with an account that has already signed in to Edge before. Fixing this should be easier now that the deduplication tool is available. However, duplication has also been seen to occur when running the deduplicator on multiple machines before any of them have had a chance to fully sync their changes, so while we wait for some of the fixes we've made to arrive to Stable, make sure you leave plenty of time between runs of the deduplicator.

• After an initial fix, some users are still experiencing Edge windows turn black Open Browser Task Manager ( the keyboard shortcut is shift + esc) and killing the GPU process usually fixes it. Note that this only seems to affect users with certain hardware and is most easily triggered by resizing an Edge window. For users with discrete GPUs, updating your graphics drivers may help.
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• Some users are seeing wobble behavior>, 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 disabling the edge://flags/edge flag -experimental-scrolling."
• There are some issues where users with multiple audio output devices sometimes get no sound from Edge. In one case, Edge was muted in the Windows Volume Mixer and unmuting it fixed it. In another, restarting the browser fixes it.

Remember that this version already shows the improvements that have previously been tested within the Canary Channel. You can now download the new Edge at this link on any of the channels on the platforms on which it is available. If you already have it installed, just go to preferences within the browser and check if you have any pending updates.

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