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Say hello to the new Favorite Sidebar feature in the Edge browser
Microsoft Edge Version 87.0.654.0 (Official build) dev (64-bit) (This could be a controlled feature rollout meaning only available to a subset of insiders) this is the new view you get ...
HotCakeX In the current state this feature is strange. In the ... menu it effectively breaks quickly browsing your favorites in a submenu, which seems counterintuitive since History and Apps have quick menus there. There's the additional issue it's slow to appear, making quickly getting to a Favorite if you don't have the bar set as always visible a much longer process now. Reported it as a bug.
lindhartsen I recently was in a location with internet speeds of about 3 Mbps instead of my usual higher speed (>200Mbps) location. The new favorites menus took 4 to 5 seconds to load instead of the sub-second time I have been used to. When I returned to my high-speed location, the menu returned to fast display.
I also find the need to click on a sub-menu instead of maintaining the hover/flyout behavior to be less smooth for my ways of working.
ms4132 After seeing this comment I was curious and tried right clicking in this new view and sure enough it's a miniature webpage. I guess that could explain the performance penalty
Just got the feature in today's Canary build. It is impressive, but it opens a miniature webpage has some unwanted attributes like delay and white flash initially, as explained by lindhartsen. I hope the team can improve on this and it will be perfect!
I didn't understand the first part (maybe record a video?), but the second part about slow animation, I notice it too that should be faster
HotCakeX If you go into the ... menu you can move your mouse down and quickly get a submenu for History (shown below) or Apps.
With the new Favorites system that menu is gone, requiring the panel to appear separately
Oh okay I think i got it, so you think it's quick because you have to click on folders inside favorites list to open them (see their contents), whereas before you could just hover over them and see their contents.
I prefer this new method. don't see this as a problem to begin with. I see it as an improvement because it's more stable than before. I can hover my mouse cursor over favorites folder and pass by them with out worrying that I might accidentally open them. if i accidentally open them (like in previous implementation) i have to go all the way back and move my mouse in certain way to close it.
also this new method takes less space which is another improvement i love. everything opens in the same specified column, it's clean and neat, no more messy.
