Microsoft's Edge browser could get big on rounded corners with a new potential change spotted in (limited) testing now.
Neowin (opens in a new tab) reports that XenoPanther highlighted the potential change on Twitter, with a screenshot showing Edge Canary (the first test build) with rounded corners for the actual browser area that the page site displays.
Just noticed that there are now rounded corners for the area around the site noticeable pic.twitter.com/B0U3RCkb7e Jan 2023, XNUMX
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Even the sidebar for scrolling through the website is rounded at the top and bottom, and that's clearly not to everyone's taste (we'll talk about that in a bit).
Note that, as XenoPanther notes, there are other Edge testers out there, some of whom comment in the above Twitter thread, saying they don't see this change.
So it would appear to be a modification that was only rolled out for a small number of testers (so-called A/B tests) and depending on how things go, may be rolled out to more people (still in testing). , psyche - to gauge a greater reaction from a larger user base).
Analysis: Consistency first, but is this going too far?
Some people really dislike the new rounded look of the central area where the website is displayed on Edge. And the additional problem here is that the rounding is not only present when the browser is displayed in a window, but also when it is in full screen.
The latter looks rather strange, we must agree, and unpleasant when it comes to showing a full screen video, for example, and it also wastes a lot of screen space to show the video clip.
As one user told Microsoft on Twitter (slur removed): "Stop going all out on round corners!"
We get it though: by embracing the round look instead of the clean look as the general look of Windows XNUMX, Microsoft remains relentless. That seems a step too far, though, perhaps, especially the full-screen aspect of rounding; but this is still just an initial test, and the idea will undoubtedly be further refined (or even scrapped based on feedback, perhaps).