Microsoft Edge Dev Update

Microsoft has released Edge browser version 93 to the Dev channel. The Build 93.0.910.5 brings some new features to both Windows 10 and Mac users. For Windows 10 users it adds the share option to the … menu in PWAs and websites installed as apps. It also brings improved inking latency. 

For Mac users it adds a button that will directly appear on certain videos to let users enter Picture in Picture mode. It also adds the ability on Mac to use fingerprint authentication to allow viewing or autofilling a password. Read the full changelog below.

Added features: 

 

  • Added a button on Mac that will directly appear on certain videos to let users enter Picture in Picture mode.
  • Added the ability on Mac to use fingerprint authentication to allow viewing or autofilling a password. 
  • Added the Share option to the … menu in PWAs and websites installed as apps. 
  • Improved inking latency. 

 

Improved reliability: 

 

  • Fixed a crash when navigating to a website. 
  • Fixed a crash when using the profile switcher in PWAs. 
  • Fixed a crash when using Google Meet. 

 

Changed behavior: 

 

  • Fixed an issue where certain Settings pages are blank. 
  • Fixed an issue where the Immersive Reader toolbar is sometimes blank. 
  • Fixed an issue where icons on the toolbar that have text bubbles on them, for example extension buttons, are clipped or only partially visible. 
  • Fixed an issue where pinning a website to the Taskbar sometimes fails. 
  • Fixed an issue where toast notifications from websites sometimes don’t appear. 
  • Fixed an issue where the Save/Save As buttons in the Downloads popup aren’t shown properly in certain languages. 
  • Fixed an issue on Mac where opening a new tab sometimes doesn’t scroll the vertical tabs pane to make the newly-opened tab visible. 
  • Fixed an issue where irrelevant data is saved by autofill. 
  • Fixed an issue where user-installed fonts sometimes aren’t displayed correctly. 
  • Fixed an issue where Guided Switch settings for specific websites sometimes aren’t respected. 
  • Disabled the ability to customize the site list for Guided Switch on devices that have Information Protection enforced since the functionality is broken in this scenario.