Edge on the Dev Channel is updated for Windows and Mac with fixes and new additions to customize the home page
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Edge in the new version based on Chromium continues to receive improvements in the form of new updates Yes yesterday we saw how it could be downloaded and used On computers that still have Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, now it's time to talk about the Edge channel and the news with the latest update that Microsoft has deployed.
This is a new build arriving as 77.0.189.3 for both Windows 10 and macOS users .The improvements and fixes are substantially the same on both platforms with a few minor differences. And among all of them it is striking an aesthetic that affects the configuration of the pages
Improvements on the main page
"And from now on, all those Edge users in the Dev channel can determine what is the design of the main pagesThere are three layouts, Focused, Inspirational, Informational and Custom Layout, which allows the user to adapt the format to their liking."
"To be able to access these changes we must access the menu Preferences and within it look for the section New Tab Page and mark the design that best suits our interests."
Along with this aesthetic and at the same time functional improvement, the new version of Edge in the Dev channel offers a series of new features and improvementsintended to optimize browser behavior.
- Added a page to adapt the layout of the pages. "
- An option has been added to the menu Help and Feedback to warn about unsafe websites." "
- Now multiple tabs can be selected using the Ctrl + space key combination." "
- The Send Feedback dialog now has a dark theme."
- Added a separator between the active tab and the rest of the tabs when the color of the tab band makes it difficult to distinguish the difference the tabs.
- The color of the windows has been updated when they are inactive. "
- Fixed an issue where opening Settings as a guest crashes the browser."
- Fixed an issue where opening DevTools in InPrivate can crash the browser.
- Fixed a bug that causes load arrow and tab icon to appear overexposed.
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- Fixed a crash when using Read Aloud."
- Fixed an issue whereby certain webpages with videos may show crashes.
- Fixes a bug that could cause deletion of favorites when using them for the first time.
- Fixed an issue where installed websites could not be uninstalled from Windows Settings.
- Fixed an issue where DevTools extensions would not appear in the list of extensions.
- Fixes an issue where synchronization could fail when using a VPN.
- Fixed a bug that caused files displayed on the download page to use a generic icon instead of the file's own icon.
These are general level improvements and fixes. In addition, in the case of Mac there are a series of extra corrections:
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- Fixed an issue where clicking the Restart Application button when installing an update would not open the browser again. "
- Fixes a bug that sometimes caused the contextual menus to not be displayed. "
- Fix an issue where the text for the keyboard shortcut to open Downloads is different depending on where you it looks."
- Fix a bug where the prompt to add keychain credentials would appear only fleetingly after installing a new build .