On its "What"s Next" section on the Edge Insider website, Microsoft has published today all the upcoming and currently rolling out features that the browser will receive. There are plenty of changes in store starting from changes in PDF handling to Tab Groups, as well as certain policy changes and much more. Since the feature roadmap has been updated just today, none of the changes are currently in the stable channel yet.
With that said, here are all the upcoming features in Edge:
- Free form text boxes added to PDF documents
- Starting with version 94, we are support for adding free form text boxes to PDF documents that you can use to fill in forms and add visible notes.
- Free form highlighting on PDFs
- Starting in Microsoft Edge version 94, the PDF viewing and markup experience will be improved with the addition of freeform highlighters. This will allow you to highlight sections on PDFs that you may not have access to comment on as well as scanned documents.
- Launch PWA instead of browser with URL links
- Starting in Microsoft Edge version 97, you can opt into launching the browser in a PWA rather than the full native browser.
- Notification from web apps show as coming from the PWA
- Beginning with Microsoft Edge version 94, notifications from progressive web applications PWAs will no longer show as coming from Microsoft Edge, but rather will display the name of the web app instead
- Improved handoff between IE mode and the modern browser
- Starting with Microsoft Edge version 95, the transition between the modern browser experience and the IE mode experience will improve. Referrer headers, post data, forms data and request methods will now be forwarded properly across the two experiences.
- Video Picture in Picture (PiP) from hover toolbar
- Beginning in Edge version 93, it will become even easier to enter Picture in Picture (PiP) mode. When you hover over a supported video, a toolbar will appear that allows you to view that video in a PiP window.
- Default for autoplay will be set to Limited
- To help you maintain your focus online, we have changed the default for autoplaying media to Limit from Allow, beginning with Microsoft Edge version 92.
- Family Safety: Improved protection on sites such as youtube.com
- Families using Microsoft Family Safety will soon see improvements to Content filters. Parents will also have more peace of mind knowing filtering settings for Allowed sites and Blocked sites will be improved for sites such as youtube.com to prevent children from navigating to videos that aren’t allowed.
- Family Safety: Allow many EDU sites with a single click.
- Families using Microsoft Family Safety will soon see improvements to Content filters. When using “Only use allowed websites” mode, parents will see an option to add a list of educational sites to the allow list with one click.
- Tab Groups
- The ability to categorize tabs into user-defined groups helps you more effectively find, switch and manage tabs across multiple workstreams. To enable this, we are turning on tab grouping beginning with Microsoft Edge version 93.
- Hide the title bar while using Vertical Tabs
- Get the extra few pixels back by hiding the browser"s title bar, while in Vertical Tabs. Starting with Microsoft Edge version 93, you can go to edge://settings/appearance and under the Customize Toolbar section select the option to hide the title bar while in Vertical Tab mode.
- Automatic translation for unknown languages.
- Starting in Microsoft Edge version 94, when you navigate to a page that displays in a language that is not one that you have set up as known, Microsoft Edge will automatically translate the content of the page to your primary language. We will then give you the option to return to the original page or disable further automatic translations.
- Price history in shopping experience
- Price History helps you decide whether now is the best time to purchase a product. You can now see price changes on products of your interest on Amazon.com and 9 other retailers, allowing you to have a quick, stress free shopping experience.
- Citation support added to Collections
- Starting with Microsoft Edge version 95, we have improved the Collections experience, especially for students and researchers. Collections will start supporting citations and reading lists.
- New policy to support more flexibility in Microsoft Edge startup
- Beginning with Microsoft Edge version 94, enterprise administrators will have more flexibility in the options they choose in their startup policy. This will include the ability to specify the start page, add/remove additional pages, and Continue where you left off", while ensuring that the set of pages specified by policy are also opened.
- Initial Preferences in Microsoft Edge
- Deploying Microsoft Edge to your enterprise will become easier starting in version 93, with the addition of Initial Preferences.
These changes will be gradually rolling out in due course alongside features that were added previously to the roadmap. You can view the official Edge Insider feature roadmap here.