

You can then control music or video playback and, in the case of a video, activate Picture-in-Picture mode to continue playback in a remote window. Click on it to bring up the mini multimedia controller. Microsoft Edge supports Chromium extensions, and you can publish your extensions to Microsoft Edge Add-ons website with minimal code changes. You should see a new icon appear in the Edge toolbar. Then go to your favorite site to start playing audio or video content. Then click on Restart to restart the web browser. Click on the drop-down menu displayed on the right and change the Default value to Enabled.

In the search box displayed at the top of the Edge Experiences interface, search for Global Media Controls.

Some of these features under testing can then be built into the browser natively or, in some cases, disappear for good. Launch Microsoft Edge and go to the browser flags by entering the address edge: // flags.Īs a reminder, flags are experimental features, currently being tested in the browser, but not enabled by default. Disabled by default, here’s how to take advantage of it right away. As on Chrome, it includes multimedia control buttons to manage the playback of audio and video content in any tab of the browser. But Microsoft’s web browser has more than one trick up its sleeve.
