“Microsoft Edge will automatically update when the browser is idle. Your tabs will automatically be restored,” reads the text description.

This update mechanism will imitate the “Updates are available, install now” option in the Win11 system, allowing Edge users to experience relevant new functions/features earlier.

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Simply put, some websites use trackers to collect information about a user’s browsing, which can be used to improve their service and deliver personalized ads to the user, among other things. However, there are also some trackers that also send the collected information to another website.

In response to this problem, major browsers such as Microsoft Edge offer three tracking protection modes: basic, balanced (default), and strict, with the strict mode blocking most trackers from all sites, making it difficult to personalize many ads, which also leads to the possibility that some sites may not be accessible properly.

A large number of users have reported that Google is blocking them from watching YouTube videos if Microsoft Edge has “Strict” tracking protection mode enabled.

As early as May 2023, there were reports that Google had been testing an anti-ad-blocking experimental feature for YouTube, when it detects that some users are using an ad-blocking program, it will pop-up window to remind the user unless the user disables the ad-blocker or subscribes to YouTube Premium, or else they will not be able to access the site. This user, for example, was alerted by a pop-up that the video player would terminate after 3 videos.

Google has actually been fighting ad blockers for a long time, briefly banning them from the Play Store in early 2016, for example, but reverting back to its original strategy shortly afterwards. But clearly, it didn’t stop there.

More and more YouTube users are starting to see this warning and pop-up as Google gradually strengthens its anti-anti-tracker features, and this time it’s even directly confronting the browser’s optional tracking protection mode.

As we can see from the Google Alert, Google maintains that “ad blockers violate YouTube’s Terms of Service”:

• You may have activated an ad blocker. You must either allow YouTube or turn off the ad blocker to continue playing the video.
• Ads allow users around the world to access YouTube.
• For an ad-free experience, users can opt for YouTube Premium, which ensures that content creators are still paid.

Therefore, users have only two options: allow YouTube ads or purchase a YouTube Premium subscription. But the good thing is that this issue doesn’t affect all users, which suggests that Google is still in grey-scale testing and will hopefully tweak it later.

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It is found that users have three ways to open the “Screenshot” tool, one is through the right-click menu of the web page, the second is to open the “…” button in the upper right corner and select “Screenshot”; the third is to use Ctrl+ Shift+S key combination.

After enabling the “Snipping” tool, users can select a page area. However, unlike the “Web Capture” tool, the Snipping Tool can capture content outside the browser window, but does not support long screenshots of web pages; the “Web Capture” tool only Limited to the browser window, drop-down can select subsequent content of the web page.

After the user selects the screenshot area, there will be options such as square, circle, arrow, draw, mosaic, text, etc. In addition, users can also perform operations such as sharing, downloading, canceling, and copying.

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As spotted by Twitter user @Leopeva64, a recent Edge Canary update introduced a feature that rewrites text with Bing AI. This feature allows users to select a piece of text in the input box and use the Alt + I shortcut to rewrite it. Edge will pop up a window showing the text rewritten by Bing AI, and there are several buttons to replace the selected text, adjust the generated results, or try to regenerate the text.

Like SwiftKey on Android and iOS, the feature can use Bing AI to rewrite text in different styles. Users can choose from four tones: professional, casual, enthusiastic, and informal; change the format: paragraph, email, blog post, and idea; and choose length: short, medium, and long. Then click the Rewrite button to apply the settings and regenerate Bing AI’s responses.

Currently, the Bing AI rewrite text function is being pushed to some internal test users of the Canary channel. This is an A/B test, meaning not everyone will have access to this new feature. Edge Dev has a similar feature: Right-clicking on highlighted text and selecting the “Ask Bing AI” option will open the Bing sidebar where the text can be interpreted, modified, or extended.

It is noticed that Microsoft has also recently started pushing Bing and Bing Chat’s dark mode support to desktop users. Additionally, Microsoft is finally allowing access to Bing Chat from other browsers, such as Google Chrome and Safari.

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The most notable improvement in this update is that users can see link thumbnails when viewing the browser history.

The iOS version of Edge browser has a new button to exit InPrivate mode after the update; the Android version saves content to albums with the new Drop feature.

The 115.0.1880.1 update fixes as follows

Fixed the issue that the browser crashes after allowing microphone access.

Fixed the browser crashing when clicking the Send Feedback button on the sidebar.

Fixed browser crash when playing video in full screen on macOS platform.

Web selection has been re-added with Ctrl + Shift + X combination shortcut

Fixed an issue where opening a PDF file still jumped to the last viewing location when the relevant option was disabled.

Fixed an issue with some websites not rendering correctly.

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Earlier this year, Microsoft added Personalize My Top Sites to the Set Custom Sidebar option to help users curate a personalized experience, in addition to creating a dedicated keyboard shortcut (Note: CTRL + SHIFT + /), which can be used to auto-hide or always show the sidebar in Edge for enhanced accessibility.

Now, Microsoft is working on a new feature that will let users detach the sidebar from Edge and move it to a desktop like Windows 11. According to the Microsoft 365 roadmap, the feature is expected to begin rolling out to users sometime next month.

This enables a side-by-side experience for any Windows application, including the Edge browser itself, and users can enjoy simplified access to artificial intelligence tools and web-based services, including Bing Chat, without launching a browser window. Administrators can control its availability with StandaloneHubsSidebarEnabled.

Once the feature is generally available, users will be able to attach the sidebar from Edge to their Windows desktop by clicking the pop-out icon at the bottom, but users will need to manually opt-in to it.

It’s also worth noting that even with the Edge browser closed, users can use the sidebar directly on their Windows desktop and also access everything pinned to the tool.

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Microsoft Edge for Business is a new work-focused browser experience with dedicated visual elements and a rich set of enterprise controls, security and productivity features. When a user signs in using Azure Active Directory or AAD, it becomes the standard browser mode activated by the organization.

Microsoft Edge for Business is designed to solve the problems caused by hybrid work where the lines between personal and work experiences blur. On the one hand, customers want to keep their private data, passwords, browsing history, and other parts of their daily browsing separate from the organization. IT administrators, on the other hand, work hard to maintain the company’s security. As a result, many organizations support multiple browsers, which in turn reduces the security and convenience of the experience.

The new work-centric Edge experience separates users’ personal and work lives into dedicated windows with their own icons, cache, browsing data, passwords, storage locations, and more. Additionally, Microsoft hopes to make the switching process automatic and seamless by launching Microsoft Edge for Business when you sign in to Microsoft 365 and other websites with your work account. Since every organization and user has their own needs and preferences, Microsoft allows a list of customizable sites that trigger switching between personal and work experiences.

In addition to providing a more convenient browsing experience for end users, Microsoft Edge for Business also makes life easier for IT administrators, requiring only one browser to complete all tasks. Microsoft says this approach reduces cyberattacks and ensures personal data remains private and in sync with the enterprise.

Microsoft Edge for Business is available in public preview on managed devices starting today and Microsoft says the feature will be available on unmanaged devices in the coming months.

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For example, if you’re a salesperson browsing a prospect’s website, you can ask Copilot in the Edge browser for everything you need to know about that customer, including previous meetings, emails and chats. copilot can also help you reply to emails from your boss asking about the customer’s progress based on the information you’re viewing.

Microsoft 365 Copilot is Microsoft’s comprehensive office digital assistant, powered by OpenAI. It’s similar to the classic Clippy assistant, but this time Copilot can actually help you draft content suitable for sending to colleagues or add data to documents.

Copilot in the Edge browser is available in the browser’s sidebar and can be used at any time while you browse the web. As with other Copilot instances, you simply interact with a Bing AI-like dialog box and instruct it to do something in natural language.

In a new blog post, Lindsay Kubasik, product manager for Microsoft’s Edge Enterprise Group, describes some examples of Microsoft 365 Copilot in Edge:

You can enter a natural language request, such as "Tell my team how we updated our product strategy today," and Microsoft 365 Copilot will generate a status update based on the morning's meeting, email and chat threads. Combined with Edge, Microsoft 365 Copilot becomes more intuitive, providing better answers by tracking the context of what you're viewing in your browser. For example, when you view a document shared by a colleague, you simply ask, "What are the key takeaways from this document?"

In addition, Microsoft’s Enterprise Data Protection extension to Microsoft Edge for Business will become the standard browser for organizations using Azure AD. Edge for Business can protect corporate data and block personal data by providing a separate window with a separate Web cache to automatically separate work browsing from personal browsing content syncing back to the company.

Microsoft also made other Edge-related announcements, including the launch of Edge Workspaces, a feature that supports tabbed collaboration, in the coming months and now supports Edge sidebar app development — which helps make progressive Web apps work better with your browsing experience. edge will also support the new Microsoft 365 Copilot plug-ins that enable the experience of people interacting with apps using chatbot prompts.

Currently, Microsoft 365 Copilot is currently only available as a private preview and must be used with an Azure AD-based work account. With the addition of Edge, this account requirement remains unchanged “to meet existing commitments to enterprise data security and privacy.”

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The whole operation is very simple. The user can drag and adjust an application icon on the sidebar to the specified position. At present, this feature is only invited to some users of the Canary channel to test.

In addition to adjusting the position of the sidebar buttons, the Edge browser has also added thumbnail previews for favorites in the latest version, including “small thumbnail view”, “medium thumbnail view” and “large thumbnail view” , users can choose according to their needs.

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New features include:

• In the vertical tab area, you can drag and drop links to any location to open a new tab of links.
• The discovery panel is now resizable.
• macOS: Added Control + Option + Command + Down shortcut to open spell-checked correction cards.
• Enterprise: Added DiscoverPageContextEnabled policy. Added a policy for configuring the Recommended Settings dialog.

Reliability improvements include:

• Fixed a browser crash when selecting text in the privacy window.
• macOS: Fixed a browser crash when prompted for proxy credentials.
• Android: Fixed a browser crash when quickly tapping the forward or back button twice.

Other changes include:

• Fixed an issue where videos could not be played on certain websites.
• Fixed an issue with AV1 media playback.
• Fixed issue with workspace not reconnecting after losing connection.
• Fixed edge://app-settings page showing “This page is blocked by Microsoft Edge” message.
• Fixed missing discovery panel title.
• Linux: Fixed spell-check suggestions not working in some cases.
• macOS: Fixed an issue where the browser did not get focus when opening links from other apps.
• WebView2: Fixed an issue with ScriptDialogOpening of type before unload (#3355)
• Lunching External URI API has been upgraded from experimental to public.
• Enterprise: Fixed issue with external unmanaged links not opening in the privacy tab on Android. Fixed an issue where shortcuts to discovery features remained active after being disabled by a policy.

Users can download Microsoft Edge Dev version 115, which supports Windows 10 and 11, Linux, macOS and Android, from the official website. Microsoft plans to release version 115 to the stable channel during the week of June 29, 2023.

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