Someone, anyone, please deliver me from Edge Version 156.0.4314.42 I got today


barreleye

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First thing I noticed was the new, purposeful color background to my workspace bar, which was formerly the same color as the rest of the window background, blended in seamessly, and was JUST FINE the way it was. I mean, I never gave it a single thought until today. I said to myself, "Well, that's a choice", but I plodded on.

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Next thing, my tab highlight color is now BRIGHT RED. Are you kidding me? ARE YOU KIDDING ME. No, Microsoft is not.

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And of course, an ongoing issue remains, the huge flyout infolabels that can't be suppressed and flit back and forth between the left edge of the vertical tabs pane and the right edge, sometimes appearing simultaneously with the traditional small tooltips. This isn't useful. This is distracting and stress-inducing when you move over the tabs at normal speed, as I do toward the end of the video.



Does Microsoft have a department whose mission statement is, "What can we do to make things worse this week?" Because garbage like this makes me really curious.

I've been through Edge://flags and Settings and found nothing that affects any of this. I restarted Edge, and that didn't help. Any suggestions?
 

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I upgraded to .42 yesterday, and didn't see any changes.

I'd try rolling back to a previous System Restore point.

Failng that, download the .MSI of the version you previously ran.

Then, run the following in an elevated Command prompt...

msiexec /I Path\FileName.msi /qn ALLOWDOWNGRADE=1

I'd suggest either creating a Group Policy setting, or a Defender Firewall rule to block automatic Edge updates.
 

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It all survives a reboot, too. Switching to light mode in Edge darkens the red tabs and workspace bar background. This all seems very deliberate.
 

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Create a second edge profile just to see if the red tab still shows. If not it’s probably tied to an extension or theme you have installed.

The flyout should be controlled by Tab Hover Cards in settings
 

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"Show tab preview on hover" is off. I turned that off a long time ago when I investigated a way to stop the distracting nonsense recorded in my video. It doesn't help. I didn't find anything else that did. The other stuff is new, as in, today, when Edge proudly announced its new release version to me. The only extension I run is uBlock Origin LIght.
 

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I've used Edge for more than five years. I have the latest upgrade, and I don't see what you're seeing.

Microsoft Edge is up to date.
Version 156.0.4314.42 (Official build) (64-bit)
 

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