The context menu entry marked with a red arrow says Show search highlights. But Werner wrote the following in a second mail:īut the colleagues do not have the choice at all A short search on the Internet initially didn't really brought me any further. The reader (who contacted me) can't really make sense of these icons and their functionality and I really didn't a clue. My guess was that Microsoft is testing a new functionality (a back port from Windows 11 search) and is running an A/B test with selected users. Is Microsoft running an A/B test with search? But since the icons are displayed in the search box, it must have some other meaning (now it's clear, it has something to do with search highlight). I myself didn't realize at first quick glance that it's not a notification in the taskbar status area (I would have guessed application icons). The arrow in the above screenshot points to the newly appeared icons. I have a new icon next to or rather in the search bar of Windows 10 since today: The user contacted me because he suddenly gets new icons like a triangle, a pencil and an olive branch (I'll just call it that) displayed in the search box in the Windows 10 taskbar. New Search Highlights icons in Windows 10 search box contacted me via email and brought an issue to my attention, that I have not encountered before. It puts your tabs to sleep so they don’t use up unnecessary memory and CPU cycles.German blog reader Werner P. The other new feature is “sleeping tabs,” which does pretty much what you expect it to do. This shouldn’t have too much of an effect on your Windows 10 bootup time, so it’s probably a trade-off worth making, but I also can’t recall anybody complaining about browser startup times in the last couple of years either. It simply loads some of the core Edge processes whenever you boot up your Windows machine, so when you task Edge with starting up, there isn’t all that much work left to do. The way Microsoft does this is pretty straightforward. One new feature is Startup Boost, which allows Edge to start up almost instantly.

Since Microsoft develops Edge in the open, these may also feel familiar to those who keep a close eye on the Edge roadmap - indeed, I think I’ve seen most of these in Edge 90 already… At its annual Build conference today, Microsoft announced a couple of new features for version 91 of its Edge browser that, like so much at Build this year, aren’t earth-shattering (developer velocity!) but nice quality-of-life upgrades for its users.

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