Edge Linux: Collections and Workspaces
Hey y'all, I use Edge Dev on both Linux (at home) and Windows (at work). I started using Collections recently, and I was upset to find it doesn't work on Edge Linux (yes, my packages are up to date). Although I haven't tried Workspaces yet, it's not working either on Linux. Even if you enable it, it doesn't show up. I can see that the tab expands, but the button doesn't appear. With Collections, enabling has no effect at all. Is this a known bug, or it just doesn't work on Edge Linux yet? Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS x86_64. Version 115.0.1851.0 (Official build) dev (64-bit).
Microsoft Edge Collections Consistency Issue
I have two versions of edge capabilities in regards to the collections feature. I have a M365 account and a business account. On the personal M365 account the collections features are limited. I cannot sort, drag, drop, re-arrange, or unpin/pin but compared to my business account edge these features are enabled. Is there different versions of edge running for different account types? Cheers, Quan
Edge Collections - Star To Collect - bad idea not to include a remove option
I noticed in the newer versions of edge collections "Start to collect" - After searching I've found this to be a very bad addition to collections. Collections actually got me away from pocket but with this "Start to collect" I am wanting to go back to pocket. I submitted feedback but am hoping MSFT is reading these as Edge is a great browser - the collection option is great - especially when my favorites are full/unorganize I use collections for my "focus on" options.
Ability to snip a web page section like crop it, and save it to Collections.
One of the features that I have come to love in Opera GX, is the ability to crop a part of the web page as in capture say an image and text in one shot, and save that to a pinboard in OPera. Edge is very close to having this, and while it can do Images and Text, it would be so great if it could do both as suggested. I have looked high and low for Edge to be able to do this and I can not find it. The beauty about Pinboards is I can see the image and what it potentially is before being clicked on and directed to that website, and while collections can do this. I would be greatful if it was polished a bit more.
New Features for Collections
Collections are such an amazing feature. I hope you guys will make it complete by adding some features that are really needed for using collections on a daily basis. Some things I believe would help to achieve it's full potential: - Add a website to a collection through it's url (without having to open it and then add current page) - Add groups of tabs to collections - Add window to collection - Move tabs between collections - Search all collections, search in collection - Sub-collections for better organization - Export collections to bookmarks - UI option to change view type inside of collections (make them smaller, show only website icon instead of huge thumbnail) It would be amazing if basically the same features we have for tabs and bookmarks (group, transfer between groups, save window to group, etc) could be in collections. The potential for session management is amazing: sort and manage current sessions, save groups and tabs for later, archive for future reference, restore previous session (all tabs of a similar category), bookmark for easy use. Sessions could eventually be merged with bookmarks given enough development. The workflow would be amazing. There are a lot of other posts talking about features for collections, I'll link some here: Collections Feature Request: Adding Multiple Tabs To Existing Collection - Microsoft Community Hub Edge Collections Feature - Signs of Decline vs. Untapped Potential - Microsoft Community Hub Thanks so much and great work! This will make using edge so amazing.Edge Collections Feature - Signs of Decline vs. Untapped Potential
I remember this used to be such a lively place around the time of Chromium Edge's release. Hopefully, posting feedback here won't be like speaking in an abandoned theatre... Feedback: Sort: The sort feature had been broken (for me at least) for over two years. A duplicate sort dialog would be displayed every time. Your selected sort option would be lost anyway—as soon as you closed and reopened Collections. Now, it appears Sort has been dropped altogether and replaced with Reorder. While simple manual reordering is a nice option, the loss of automatic sort by name or date is a decline by any measure. Moving tabs to/from Collections: My use of Collections dropped dramatically over a year ago out of frustration. Development of options for moving tabs and tab groups to and from Collections stalled just short of what was needed to make it fully useful. As I recall, you could move one tab to collections or all tabs (maybe), but you couldn't move selected tabs to a specific Collection or a tab group to a Collection of the same name which should have been obvious capability. Another missing capabilty that should have been obvious is moving a Collection to a tab group (and back) when needed. Also as I recall you could only copy and not move in some or all cases which left us with the frustration of manually cleanup up afterwards (if you wanted to move). These few missing capabilities left me searching for solutions like the One Tab Group extension which itself is still in need of improvement. Now it appears ALL functionality has been removed except for the ability to add the current page to a collection. 😞 Start to collect Feature: At first, I was annoyed to see Start to collect appended to the bottom of my Collections. But after playing with it a bit, I started to see the potential. First of all, the fact that the sample collection ideas have virtually no connection to topics I'm interested was a turnoff. Since my collections already have so many examples of what I'm interested in, why not use that to inform at least some of the suggestions? That one change could generate interest instead of annoyance. However, I actually started to get excited after finally clicking the "See more ideas" button and it opened up an entire page of easily addable image collections from Pinterest. And this is coming from someone who previously just turned off Pinterest integration without trying it. But the next "taking us frustratingly close then quitting" experience is when I tried filtering all those ready-made collections to narrow down to what I'm actually interested in—and the results no longer had the nice Save on hover button, but instead flattened out into a normal image search page. The ability to manually filter and add these ready-made collections and/or have them be more relevant automatically (for those like me who are willing to trade maximum privacy for relevance) could transform this from irrelevant annoyance to a killer feature. Managing Collections: Lack of ability to easily select and move one or more items between Collections was another "so close but no cigar" frustration. Dragging items individually was far too clumsy if once you get beyond having just a couple of items to move. I often needed to merge collections with lots of items in them, but this was far too labor intensive to be practical. Backing up Collections: Last but not least, I was pleased that we could export or at least copy a collection and save it elsewhere as a handy archiving solution. The problem was, once again stopping short of greatness, it was not possible to save/export all Collections (to Excel or some other format) as a one-click backup solution. If you have a lot of collections, exporting them one-at-a-time in a way that doesn't preserve the collection structure is simply not practical. Team Edge, what's happening to your amazing creation? I can guess that some features are being removed to simplify and due to lack of use. If true, in my opinion this can also be seen as giving up too easily. In addition to creating an esthetically pleasing UI, good UX involves making complex actions simple for end users. I know only enough about UX to realize this can sometimes be far from easy. Lack of developer talent is not always the issue. My sense is that Product Managers and even upper and senior management need to know at least enough about UX to understand why it's important to provide the necessary time and resources. Good luck!
Edge Collections - Sorting shows a duplicate filter
I have submitted this once via in-app feedback and got a response but cannot find it anymore in emails. In current Dev and Release the issue still appears. Repro: open Collections > ... > Sort by > it is a cosmetic issue, thanks for looking into this.Let us follow more creators in Edge, the current limit is too low
Edge 105 has a feature where it allows you to follow creators, so far that I tried it works for YouTube channels. I want to follow all of the YouTube channels I've subscribed to in Edge, but the current limit is too low, I have around 300 subscriptions. if I can follow all of them it will help me de-google a lot.Collections VS Workspaces | two different philosophies of saving tabs
Collections and Favorites (of all these tabs I want all of them) The idea of these is that you want to save a set of tabs outside the normal opening and closing of tabs so that they are sort of safe or protected from losing them. Collections differs from favorites in that the tabs are not so important individually and can be saved on mass. An important aspect is that tab saving is somewhat permanent, removing tabs has to be done manually. Workspaces and Tab Set Aside (of all these tabs I want at least one of them) The Idea of workspaces and tab set aside is that you cannot be bothered to know what tabs are important and which are not at the moment and want to "set them aside" for now. No tab is important enough to have a permanent safe place but at least one of them is probably important. Tabs can be added and (more importantly) removed on a whim without manually removing it from its group (just closing a tab) please do not use one of these as a replacement of the other. While technically both "save tabs" they are completely opposite in their use.
