Microsoft Releases the Very First Build of Microsoft Edge 85 (Dev)

Microsoft has just released the very first build of Microsoft Edge 85 in the Dev channel, and unsurprisingly, there are only small changes this time, albeit the new update also comes with a series of welcome fixes and notable known issues.

First and foremost, there’s just one new feature in Microsoft Edge Dev 85.0.531.1, as Microsoft has added a setting to enable preloading of certain webpages.

While this doesn’t sound like much at first glance, it actually is, as preloading means searching and browsing are substantially faster because specific content is loaded in advance.

There are obviously lots of bug fixes, and you can check out the full changelog in the box after the jump.

But also worth knowing is that this build comes with a series of known issues, and one of them concerns Kaspersky antivirus software.

“Users of the Kaspersky Internet Suite who have the associated extension installed may sometimes see webpages like Gmail fail to load. This failure is due... (read more)