Window Display in MS Edge Randomly Blurs

Anonymous
2023-09-06T17:46:20+00:00

Good day,

Sometimes when I am using MS Edge, the window display blurs seemingly without cause and stays there for a few minutes. When I say "window display" I mean it only applies to the Edge Work window I have open (I don't remember it occurring with other profile windows), and it isn't the whole window, but only the page display which is everything below the URL line.

At first, I suspected this might have something to do with Sleeping Tabs since it sometimes occurs when I step away from my computer. When I return, if I click anywhere on the page display, it returns to normal. However, I tried disabling sleeping tabs when it occurred randomly (while I was using the page) and it still persisted.

Apart from when I have left the computer for a while and clicking, there is nothing that I have found that consistently restores the normal unblurred screen. I have had some level of success with opening new tabs (this sometimes fixes it), but this does not always work and is not predictable.

Below are two screenshots - normal and blurred:

My current version of Edge is 118.0.2060.1 (Official build) dev (64-bit). I have also reported this through Send Feedback.

If anyone knows about this, I would appreciate any assistance.

Thank you.

Microsoft Edge | Other | Windows 11

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Anonymous
2023-11-01T16:16:34+00:00

119.0.2151.42 (Beta) and 120.0.2186.0 (Dev/Canary) should have the fixes.

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Anonymous
2023-10-24T21:59:22+00:00

I'll reply back with the Edge versions that have the change that allows "no policies" to imply "never blur for inactivity". The change that I previously mentioned that is in Edge Canary is going to require a second fix (due to technical reasons). Hopefully that will land in Canary within 1-2 days; and then both fixes will be taken together to Beta/Stable.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-09-25T23:27:26+00:00

    yep it does, and in my case always did. The timing of when it occurred was inconsistent, but clicking any Edge-work-profile session brought all the tabs back into focus immediately.

    Apologies I may have misunderstood the nature of the feature/bug. This is an intentional thing that someone in my corporate EUC/DLP team decided was a good idea to turn on?? Oh jeepers, what a damn annoying feature to make available and to then enable.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-09-25T21:27:50+00:00

    Does the blurring go away when you click the page? Note that the blurring after an admin-configured period of inactivity is intentional.

    If you have any specific steps to the reproduce the issue of the blurriness *not* going away (after interacting with the page), that would be helpful.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-09-25T21:11:49+00:00

    morning.

    @SSatMS sorry still occurs. I did an Edge update this morning, no reboot, and left Edge running in the background for about 10 mins. I've not done a test to see if it also impacts sites that don't use corporate SSO, I tend to use Edge only for work stuff, and other browsers for non-work.

    Win11 Pro 10.0.22621

    Edge for Business Version 117.0.2045.43 (Official build) (64-bit) (it was .41 prior)

    Would you like me to chase the internal Intune folks for anything specific from their policy conf?

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