After a week without news, a new update arrives to the Edge Dev channel loaded with improvements and news

Microsoft continues to go strong with the new Edge and today relaunches a new version on the Dev channel And it is that users of They were looking forward to this channel after running out of updates last week as the middle of the week coincided with the 4th of July holiday in the United States.

On the return to normality, Edge on the Dev channel reaches version 77.0.211.2 in this build. An update that gives it a series of new features inherited from the Canary channel. This is the list of changes that it incorporates.

New Features

• Ability to read aloud in PDF files
• The secure reception of payment card data is enabled.
• Reputation of the application is enabled from SmartScreen by default
• Support for Dolby audio in Windows 8.
• The family safety feature has a space at edge://flags.
• Direct launch for ClickOnce applications has been enabled.
• Added support for HEVC decoder.
• Windows Defender Application Guard is enabled by default
• "Add Recent category in history management page"
• InPrivate has been disabled when browsing profiles managed by Family Settings
• Added tracking prevention under a flag at edge://flags.
• Added the ability to save pages as MHTML from reading view.
• Single sign-on (SSO) and Azure Active Directory (AAD) are supported
• PDF DRM is supported
• We are working on support for 11 new languages.
• Enabling SmartScreen on macOS by default
• Enabling SafeSearch functionality for all Bing searches.

Reliability improvements

• Fix for TouchBar on macOS in full screen YouTube mode.
• Multiple fixes for engine timing.
• Improved crash reporting and loading.
• Fixed a crash on loading URL
• Fixed a bug when sync was turned off and turned back on repeatedly.
• Fixed a crash when trying to write to a read-only date attribute
• Fixed a crash when moving the tab between two windows on separate screens.
• Fix a crash that occurred when synchronization occurred before login was completed
• Fixed a crash that occurs on some navigation requests.
• Fixed a crash on popup windows
• Fixed crash launching Microsoft Edge on macOS Sierra and High Sierra
• Extensions can be automatically repaired by default.
• Fixed a problem with the guest. More support on the privacy and services settings page.
• Fixed crash on launch of macOS Microsoft Edge.

Behavior improvements

• Improvements to dark mode in various controls and pages.
• Select the last Chrome profile used by default when importing from Chrome.
• Move multiple controls to Fluent UI
• Improve cleanup logic in the installer.
• Limit New Tab page content for Education SKUs and Windows 10s.
• Added fixes to the new WebView control rendering
• Added fixes for importing defaults from Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer
• Added fixes for Reading View toolbar
• Added fixes for importing pinned tabs and settings during First Run Experience
• Add fix to use user preference for font size instead of default default.
• Allow to automatically move keyboard focus to address bar after First Run Experience
• Fixed swipe gesture for History on macOS
• Fixed sync icon badge in user dropdown.
• Audio download fixes to improve performance and battery life.