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HotCakeX
Nov 15, 2019MVP
Finally here! the Real Full Screen Experience in Edge insider Browser
Now if you go to full screen mode, by either pressing F11 on keyboard or this button you will see the tabs and address bar in a drop down fashion, just like in Edge classic. to do th...
adamrdrew
Nov 15, 2019Brass Contributor
HotCakeX I appreciate the update, and this is a nice addition for desktop users, but this isn't what I requested. I asked for better touchscreen support for fullscreen mode. The browser still instructs me to "Press F11 to exit fullscreen mode" even when there's no keyboard attached. And the nice UI overlay you added doesn't appear on a touchscreen; there's no way to trigger it.
This is a good start, but you need to add a few more things. Please make it so swiping down from the top brings the app UI back down - just like what you have hovering the mouse at the top of the screen doing. If you think of the app UI as a physical object moving up above the screen the gesture should pull it back down again. Old Edge does this today, just give it a shot with a Surface and see. Just copy exactly what it does.
And please make sure by release it doesn't say "Press F11 to exit fullscreen" when the keyboard is detached. That's the worst part and is the kind of thing that people poke at Microsoft for. I still have no idea how to exit fullscreen mode without a keyboard. And this update seems to have made it worse by getting rid of the little circle-X that used to appear on (I think) long press near the top of the screen. Instead, it now pops up a context menu and you have to tap a menu item that says "Press F11 to exit fullscreen." That is definitely not how it should work.
If I can be of any assistance please let me know. "Little" stuff like this is really important. It Edge doesn't work well on Surfaces that's going to look bad. Its the kind of thing that gets bad press. If I can do a screen sharing session or make you a video or mockups or whatever I can do to help get this working as well as every other browser on tablets I will volunteer any time I can.
HotCakeX
Nov 15, 2019MVP
Yes unfortunately it's not working well on touch devices but at least it's a start, as a flag, it's experimental and more features will be added to it in next updates. for now we can test it and report the problems that we find 🙂