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Microsoft Edge discussions on WindowsForum.com cover browser security, enterprise compatibility, and user-facing features. Recent threads highlight the planned disablement of full uBlock Origin by end of 2026 due to Manifest V2 changes, confirmed Windows 11 issues with IE mode affecting legacy applications, and security updates addressing Chromium vulnerabilities in Edge 151. Practical guidance includes exporting favorites to HTML before a PC reset, while roadmap news points to a Vertical Tabs rebuild targeting December 2026. Default browser choice frustrations among Windows users are also a recurring theme. These topics reflect Edge's role in Windows environments, from troubleshooting to feature planning and security patching.
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    Edge 152 Auto-Revokes Notifications After SmartScreen Blocks

    Microsoft Edge 152 now revokes website-notification permission automatically when a notification leads a user to a page that Microsoft Defender SmartScreen blocks as a scam, phishing site, or malware destination. The change addresses a familiar Windows support problem: a user clicks “Allow” on...
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    Microsoft Edge 152 Removes Drop, Requires Text Note Downloads

    Microsoft Edge 152, released to the Stable channel on August 27, removes Edge Drop outright while adding Apple-account sign-in for Windows and macOS. The pairing is easy to misread as a routine feature shuffle. For people who used Drop as a lightweight cross-device scratchpad, it is a deadline...
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    Enable Edge Sleeping Tabs to Cut RAM and CPU Use

    Microsoft Edge can reduce the RAM and CPU consumed by its inactive tabs without closing them: turn on Sleeping Tabs in Edge’s Performance settings, then reserve exclusions only for pages that must continue running in the background. For Windows 10 and Windows 11 users who keep research...
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    Edge 143 Defaults Work-History Sharing to Copilot Search

    Microsoft has updated its Edge privacy-dashboard guidance to point users toward a setting that shares browsing history with Microsoft 365 Copilot Search, but the company’s own policy documentation shows the feature is an enterprise Copilot capability, not a general privacy-dashboard control for...
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    WebView2 Runtime 152 Bridges to Biweekly Updates in 153

    Microsoft WebView2 Runtime is moving to a two-week major-release cadence alongside Microsoft Edge, but developers should treat version 152 as a transition release rather than assume the new schedule is already fully in effect. Microsoft’s Edge team says WebView2 Runtime 152 is due during the...
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    Edge 154 Ends WIP and Application Guard on Windows 10

    Microsoft Edge 154 will stop supporting Windows Information Protection and Microsoft Defender Application Guard on Windows 10 when Microsoft’s worldwide retirement rolls out in late September 2026. For the relatively small set of organizations still using either control, this is a hard...
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    Chrome Gemini Nano Is 4GB but Needs 20GB Free to Download

    Chrome now treats a large local generative-AI model as a background browser component on eligible PCs, while Microsoft Edge is making comparable models available to websites through a developer-preview API. The common 20GB free-space requirement is an eligibility threshold, not the model’s...
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    Microsoft Edge PARAKEET Was Abandoned, Never Shipped

    PARAKEET was Microsoft Edge’s abandoned answer to a problem that still has no clean solution: how to sell targeted advertising after third-party cookies without handing every ad-tech company a stable way to recognize the same person across the web. The proposal, first published by Microsoft in...
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    Edge Canary Android Themes Require Default Browser Status

    Microsoft Edge Canary for Android is testing image backgrounds for its new-tab page, but Windows Central reports that applying them currently requires users to make Edge the phone’s default browser first. The condition was spotted by browser watcher Leo Varela on August 21, 2026, and it turns a...
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    Fix Windows Location Not Working in Edge, Maps and Weather

    Windows location detection usually fails at one of three gates: the device-wide Location services switch is off, the affected app lacks permission, or the Windows Geolocation Service has been disabled. Fixing the right gate restores location in Maps, Weather, Edge websites, automatic time-zone...
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    Microsoft Edge to Disable Full uBlock Origin by End of 2026

    Microsoft Edge has begun its consumer transition away from Manifest V2 extensions, putting the full version of uBlock Origin on a path to being disabled by default before the end of 2026. Firefox seized on the announcement with a blunt social-media message that its uBlock Origin support “isn’t...
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    Windows 11 Edge IE Mode Issue Confirmed, No Fix Yet

    gHacks reports that Microsoft has confirmed a Windows 11 issue that can prevent Microsoft Edge from loading sites in Internet Explorer mode, putting legacy internal web applications at risk for affected organizations. The immediate problem is not that Internet Explorer itself has returned or...
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    Chrome 151 and Edge 151 Fix Five High-Severity Chromium Flaws

    Google and Microsoft have now shipped browser updates for the same five High-severity Chromium vulnerabilities. Google fixed the set in Chrome 151.0.7922.137/.138 for Windows and macOS and 151.0.7922.137 for Linux. Microsoft then documented Edge 151.0.4129.86, based on Chromium 151.0.7922.138...
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    Microsoft Edge Export Favorites to HTML Before a PC Reset

    Microsoft Edge can export your favorites as a portable HTML file that you can store outside the PC and later import into Edge on Windows 10 or Windows 11. Do this before a Windows reset, a profile cleanup, a PC migration, or major browser changes: Edge sync is useful for keeping devices aligned...
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    Microsoft Edge Vertical Tabs Rebuild Targets December 2026

    Microsoft plans to replace or substantially rebuild the implementation behind Vertical Tabs in Microsoft Edge, with a general-availability target of December 2026. The newly published Microsoft 365 Roadmap entry, ID 569217, says the work spans the vertical-tabs pane, layout, controls, tab...
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    Windows Default Browser Choice Still Frustrates 72% of U.S. Users

    A Browser Choice Alliance survey released August 12 says 72% of U.S. Windows users who tried to change their default browser in the past two years encountered problems, from Edge recommendations to links continuing to open in the previous browser. The useful finding is not that Microsoft Edge...
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    Windows 11 iPhone Clipboard Bridge Targets EU Fall 2027

    Windows 11 users in the European Economic Area are on track to receive a native iPhone-to-PC clipboard bridge that Microsoft asked Apple to build through the EU’s Digital Markets Act process. It is a real interoperability win, but it is neither imminent nor guaranteed to leave Europe: Apple says...
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    Google Search Console AI Report Still Rolling Out to Sites

    Search Engine Roundtable’s August 11 forum recap flags a genuine shift in how Google measures and sells AI-driven search exposure, but its biggest headline needs a correction: Google Search Console’s Generative AI performance report is not fully live for every site owner. Google’s own current...
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    Opera GX vs Edge: Edge Has Split Screen Since Version 117

    Opera GX used a TikTok meme on August 11 to cast Microsoft Edge as its “evil version,” and Edge’s official account answered, “well well well.” The exchange, archived by Know Your Meme, is a joke rather than a product announcement, but it lands on a real point: Opera GX and Edge are competing...
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    Edge Canary Renames AI Search to AI Mode, Not a New Product

    Microsoft has renamed an experimental Edge Canary address-bar option from AI Search to AI Mode, but the evidence so far points to a user-interface relabel rather than a new search product. Windows Report first spotted the change in the Canary channel, and PiunikaWeb independently confirmed that...