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I must admit, I’m starting to get a little buried under the number of features being added to Microsoft Edge. To the point where I feel they need to add a minimum-install option to counter some of the bloat. However, the cryptocurrency wallet is probably one of the better features, certainly better than searching the web for shopping vouchers. Hopefully come the next crypto cycle it’ll be ready and help drive cryptocurrency into the mainstream by bringing “web3” direct to the browser....

One of the new features in the development build of Edge at the moment is this Discover button, for some users its a purple star, for others its got the Bing logo, and as expected connects to a wide range of Bing services, including the new Chat AI. As it stands at the moment this will likely ship in version 111, i.e. the next big release. I imagine the behaviour of this button will annoy many users as it looks distracting and opens on a long hover aswell as left-click, no doubt prompting many accidental openings....

An issue I’ve run into earlier this week involved the new Chromium-based Edge version 84 in this case. Edge was failing to launch when running via any shortcuts with the error message: The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incomplete. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail. If you navigate to the Edge install folder, on my system this is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\ and check for a new-msedge....