Latest Microsoft Edge released for Windows

New tutorial:

Enable Backspace Key to Go Back a Page in Microsoft Edge Chromium

Brink said:

New tutorial:

Enable Backspace Key to Go Back a Page in Microsoft Edge Chromium

Nice! Hopefully this will become available in the release build eventually

LEOPEVA64 said:

New?:
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Update: This is also available in the Dev. and Beta versions so it's not that new, I only noticed the flag until today (the flag is disabled by default).

Thank you Leo.

New tutorial below for this setting.

Enable History and Favorites Suggestions in Microsoft Edge Address Bar

Brink said:

New tutorial:

Enable Backspace Key to Go Back a Page in Microsoft Edge Chromium

That would be terrible! I use the backspace key often and the last thing I need is to have it taking me back though web pages.

Who would want this, and why? All I can see is an incredible annoyance.

Live and learn. Turns out I already have (and have had for quite some time apparently) that feature in Seamonkey and probably in Firefox as well. I guess that explains why I sometimes jump back a page or two.


Now I need to figure out how to disable it in Seamonkey/Firefox.

Ztruker said:

That would be terrible! I use the backspace key often and the last thing I need is to have it taking me back though web pages.

Who would want this, and why? All I can see is an incredible annoyance.

Hey Rich.,

It's not enabled by default. Just another option for those that may want it.

Dave44 said:

new update stable version

New Microsoft Edge Canary 86.0.576.0 version released. See first post for more details.

LEOPEVA64 said:

In Canary, now WWW and HTTP are hidden in the omnibox by default:


This change was made in Chrome some time ago and it was quite controversial, you have to double click on the omnibox to show these two elements:

Yes I dont like this as we need the correct url for work. Is there a way to restore it?