Microsoft Edge brings Dolby Vision support with latest Dev channel release

We're midway through the week, and Microsoft has dropped some other weekly update for the Microsoft Edge Dev channel. This latest release adds support for Dolby Vision HDR, which should come equally a nice surprise for anyone who happens to have a laptop that supports it. Otherwise, there's also back up for using cards saved in MSPay on webpages, a keyboard shortcut for immersive reader, and a ton of fixes and improvements.

Here's a full await at what's new and stock-still in Microsoft Border Dev aqueduct version 81.0.410.ane.

Added a keyboard shortcut to enter Immersive Reader fashion.

Enabled support for cards saved in MSPay to be used in webpages.

Enabled Dolby Vision back up for capable devices.

Added support on Mac for reading PDFs protected with Microsoft Information Protection (MIP).

Added a limit to the corporeality of text that can be added to an item in a Collection. Notation that nosotros are yet measuring this limit and may adjust information technology in the time to come.

Fixed a crash on startup when sync is enabled.

Fixed an issue where certain websites crash upon load.

Fixed a crash when starting a download.

Fixed a crash when manually importing information from other browsers.

Fixed a crash when searching for text on a webpage.

Stock-still an issue where deleted favorites sometimes re-appear when another device tries to sync.

Fixed an result where enabling Application Guard causes high CPU usage when idle.

Fixed an issue on Mac where enabling SmartScreen causes high CPU usage when idle.

Fixed an issue where there is sometimes a delay when opening a new window before anything loads.

Fixed an issue where webpages that apply the Windows credential prompt for logging in crash the browser when showing the prompt.

Fixed an issue where websites installed every bit apps sometimes don't open.

Fixed a browser crash when closing the Collections pane.

Stock-still an event where opening the Collections pane sometimes causes a browser crash.

Fixed a crash when navigating to certain websites for Collections users.

Stock-still an issue where syncing a Drove sometimes crashes the Collections pane.

Fixed a crash when closing the browser.

Fixed a crash when closing the browser for users of extensions.

Fixed an issue where disabling Internet Explorer in Windows and then attempting to utilise IE manner causes a browser crash.

Fixed an effect where websites sometimes don't load in Awarding Guard windows after updating Edge.

Improved the reliability of syncing favorites with long names.

Fixed an consequence where Collections that are created while sync is off don't get synced once sync is turned back on.

Stock-still an upshot where certain encrypted PDFs can't be opened.

Fixed an event where the trackpad gesture to scroll is sometimes interpreted as a right-click on certain devices. Note that this fix comes with the tradeoff of sometimes dropping the gesture to correct-click (which is a two-finger tap by default), which volition be fixed in the time to come.

Fixed an issue where Edge'due south update progress reporting in Settings isn't accurate.

Stock-still an issue where swapping betwixt the News and Office New Tab Page contents besides resets the layout.

Fixed an outcome during the commencement run experience where clicking cancel when customizing which data types to sync results in those data types still being selected for sync.

Improved messaging on the Sync Settings folio for when a particular information blazon is disabled server-side even though sync in full general is enabled and functional.

Fixed an result where the autoImportAtFirstRun management policy stopped working.

Stock-still an issue where certain data types sometimes aren't imported from some other browser properly.

Stock-still an upshot where websites that are pinned using the Pinning Sorcerer aren't pinned properly.

Fixed an upshot where clicking certain links in PDFs does cypher.

Fixed an issue where attempting to roll a webpage by very big amounts sometimes fails.

Fixed an issue where scrolling on a webpage sometimes causes pages to jump to the beginning or end instead of scrolling the expected amount.

Fixed an issue where the identity button has an incorrectly-colored background.

Fixed an upshot on Mac where the Translate icon sometimes is non seen in the accost bar when it should be.

Fixed an issue where dragging images into a Collection from certain websites fails.

Fixed an issue where adding a page to a Collection sometimes results in the incorrect paradigm being used.

Fixed an issue where data and images from sure websites aren't properly added to Collections.

Fixed an issue where attempting to close a window after downloading a file in an IE mode tab sometimes results in a alert non to shut the window due to an in-progress download even though the download already completed.

For more on this update, including a await at the current known problems, you can check out Microsoft'south full release notes. If you're already using the Dev aqueduct release, the update should be available to download at present. Otherwise, you tin bank check out the Microsoft Edge Insider builds now at the Edge Insider site or grab the release version of the new Edge.

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