MS Edge Browser Horrors!

General
#1

Heads up Folks,

Have you all seen the new (to me anyway!) image hover feature in MS Edge? Appears on thumbnails, hi-res including slideshows. Encourages saving, editing…? Whatever next, shame on you Microsoft…

Thoughts?

Regards

Jon

#2

No, I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Are you using the Windows or MacOS version of Edge? Can you share a screenshot?

#3

I guess this is what you’re talking about?

#4

Not exactly Matt, I see this when I hover over an Image:

edge_hover

The top button appears first then the other two. On the bottom settings button, you get the option to edit the image! The Image is opened in an editor, where you can then change stuff…

#5

OMFG. What the actual shit, Microsoft?!

#6

I’ve always taken a stance of not messing working to block native browser behavior, but this it pushing me in the other direction.

#7

I Know, it stinks. Apparently this behaviour can be disabled in the Browser.

But where they lead others will follow, what with this and AI Grrrrrr.

#8

There’s an option to provide feedback. Just hover over “…”. After clicking on the thumbs-down icon, more options for feedback are provided!

It looks like using pointer-events: none might disable it. Haven’t tried it:

<style>
    .no-visual-search {
        pointer-events: none;
    }
</style>
<div class='img-container'>
    <img class='no-visual-search'>
</div>
#9

Yeah, but that causes other problems. I’m not sure yet whether this is a viable solution for us.