Canary version now follows your Windows 10 theme settings

May 16, 2019 06:12 GMT  ·  By

The latest Canary version of Microsoft’s Chromium-based browser brings some welcome improvements, including a dark theme that no longer requires manual activation from the flags screen.

Microsoft Edge Canary 76.0.160.0 is now available for users on Windows 10, and it introduces a change that has previously debuted in Google Chrome (and which caused a major controversy regarding the way the dark theme is implemented).

Technically, the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge Canary can now adapt to your Windows 10 visual style, being able to switch to the dark theme automatically when the operating system itself uses the same mode. If Windows 10 uses the light theme, Microsoft Edge sticks with the standard look.

While this is without a doubt a welcome improvement, what’s worth noting is that users are not provided with options to use one without the other. In other words, if you want to use the dark theme in Microsoft Edge with the light theme in Windows 10, that’s not possible.

Most likely, Microsoft will resolve this issue before the dark theme makes its way to production builds of Microsoft Edge browser. A similar implementation, however, is available in Google Chrome 74, which is the latest stable version of Google’s browser, so users can’t use the dark theme in Windows 10 light mode either.

Spellchecking now enabled by default

As TechDows notes, this new version of Microsoft Edge Canary also enables the spell checker in the language that your Windows 10 installation is configured to use. Spellchecking support originally debuted last week in the Dev build of the new Microsoft Edge.

Keep in mind that this new browser is still a work in progress and Microsoft is yet to officially release preview builds for any other platform than Windows 10.

You can download Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser from Softpedia using this link.