My observations on Edge

[eddman]

I just moved to windows 10 as my main OS and Edge (mostly for testing purposes) as my main browser. Although edge is a solid browser in general, there are some annoyances here and there.

 

1. There is no "Search with ..." function in the context-menu. There is "Ask Cortana" but I'd like to have a direct search function that would show the results in a new tab immediately.

2. Interaction with folders in the Favorites bar is quite rough. When I click a folder, its contents are shown in a list with a fixed width, which means long names are cut off, and opening a folder-in-folder from the favorites bar doesn't work. It simply opens the main favorites list on the right side of the edge.

3. It'd have been nice if there was an always visible download indicator to keep you aware of ongoing downloads. Also, edge doesn't warn you when closing the last tab when there are downloads in progress.

4. It's not possible to delete history items from the drop down list in the address bar with the delete key, like IE.

5. In IE I could open all the bookmarks in a folder with a middle-click. That cannot be done in edge.

6. I wish there was a way to disable "top sites" entirely and not just hide it.

7. It's not possible to change search providers from the address bar.

8. Not much of an issue but an option to disable tab previews would be nice.

9. This one is really a big annoyance for me. Edge's pop-up blocker is terrible at its job and fails to block most pop-ups. IE's blocker is very effective in comparison.

 

I think I'd keep using edge for now. It seems to be faster and more responsive than IE for me and I haven't had any major issues or crashes, yet. The adblock extension works quite well too. The underlying foundation seems to be quite good. It's the lack of small but useful features that hurts it the most.

[T3X4S]

OK - what kind of testing do you do ?

When you are only testing Edge and IE, (not the 2 browsers much of the world uses) & refer to Adblock - which was the adblocker to use....

Wait a sec.... are you from the past ?  Did you just send this from 2013 ?

hint:  ublock origin

 

[eddman]

I don't follow. Are you being sarcastic? I mainly use IE and FF and am now assessing edge. What's wrong with that?