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I'm having an issue with Edge's "overall appearance" setting not persisting. I took a look at the preferences file at ~/.config/microsoft-edge/Default/Preferences, and found that the setting is linked to a variable at browser.theme.color_scheme2. When I change between light/dark/gtk theme in Edge, the preferences file updates that value. And when I close the browser, the value is persisted. But when I open Edge again, it defaults to light theme, and the value is overwritten within a few seconds.

This isn't the only setting that's doing this, but it is the one that I actually found the value for in the preferences file. The background toggle on the new tab page settings, for example, gets reset to on. I have sync enabled, but both of those settings, I'm pretty sure, are not included in sync. This is a relatively new install, so the issue might have been present from the start without me noticing, but I did recently update to version 145.0.3800.70-1. Anyone else having this issue? Any ideas on what might be going on?

@brycec - thank you for the links! Looks like this is known issue and another release should be available soon, according to the microsoft issue https://github.com/microsoft/linux-package-repositories/issues/310

@iedame - Seems that there was a packaging issue with 145 and presumably Microsoft has removed the .deb until they can sort themselves.

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5777038/latest-ms-edge-deb-package-(145-0-3800-58-1)-repla
• https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/edgeinsiderdiscussions/latest-edge-dev-deb-installer-installs-google-repo/4484650

(I just googled "microsoft edge 145.0.3800.58" and found those.)

Any idea why the .deb URL is now returning a 404: Not Found error? It looks like the upstream source may have moved or removed the file.

@hii, @lnabc03

It's not hyprland exclusive. Edge in v144+ tries to create a window to show tooltips under Wayland, which causes layout reflow in tiling WMs. This causes flicker in hyprland/niri because it tries to tile the tooltip window (which closes automatically after a few milliseconds). Tooltips don't show for me under either KDE or niri (to be precise, they appear for a split second in niri, but then are closed automatically, in KDE there is no visible effect apart from brief focus loss on main window). I already reported this via Send feedback menu item, but it would be good if more people report it too because it's extremely annoying (but I need this browser for work).

For niri a similar window rule as @hii suggested can be used, since the tooltip window has an empty app ID. (This will also force other windows without app ID to be opened in a floating window, which may be a minor annoyance if you have such misbehaving applications.)

window-rule {
    match app-id="^$"
    open-floating true
}

This won't prevent the focus flicker, but at least it prevents layout changes. Another workaround is to force XWayland via --ozone-platform=x11 --disable-features=UseOzonePlatform command line parameters.

@lnabc03 This seems to be a Hyprland-exclusive issue where a separate window with autofocus is created when hovering over any element with a tooltip (think the title HTML property). Started happening to me after upgrading from 140.0 to 144.0.

I managed to make it bearable using this scuffed windowrule: windowrule = no_initial_focus true, float true, move cursor_x cursor_y, match:class ^()$,match:title ^()$,match:initial_class ^()$,match:initial_title ^()$

hopefully it doesn't break anything else since hyprctl doesn't give much to work with:

  {
    ...
    "class": "",
    "title": "",
    "initialClass": "",
    "initialTitle": "",
    ...
  }

There is a bug in the Hyprland environment. When I open Edge's favorites or history, move the mouse over them to give them focus, and after the mouse stays still for 2 seconds, the entire window screen flickers, accompanied by the favorites or history page being closed. It's very strange, and I'm not sure where the problem lies.

Guess you could report it either directly to Hyprland or to Edge. othing we can do there.

When I use Edge on Hyprland,it crashed. These are some logs before Edge crashed.

microsoft-edge-stable    01/31/26 -  6:52 下午
[96254:96254:0131/185248.713794:ERROR:media/gpu/vaapi/vaapi_wrapper.cc:1627] vaInitialize failed: unknown libva error
[96204:96204:0131/185248.850249:ERROR:ui/ozone/platform/wayland/host/wayland_wp_image_description.cc:184] Incomplete image description info from compositor.
[96204:96204:0131/185248.850392:ERROR:ui/ozone/platform/wayland/host/wayland_wp_image_description.cc:184] Incomplete image description info from compositor.
[96204:96204:0131/185248.923803:ERROR:dbus/object_proxy.cc:573] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get: object_path= /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: 无此接口“org.freedesktop.portal.FileChooser”
[96204:96204:0131/185249.046111:ERROR:ui/ozone/platform/wayland/host/wayland_wp_image_description.cc:184] Incomplete image description info from compositor.
[0131/185251.467678:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/snapshot/elf/elf_dynamic_array_reader.h:64] tag not found
[0131/185251.467997:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/snapshot/elf/elf_dynamic_array_reader.h:64] tag not found
[0131/185252.575884:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/util/file/directory_reader_posix.cc:43] opendir /home/hamster/.config/microsoft-edge/Crash Reports/attachments/319cd9bd-b639-475b-a11f-97673d5d24a7: No such file or directory (2)
[96256:96272:0131/185253.759716:ERROR:net/socket/ssl_client_socket_impl.cc:930] handshake failed; returned -1, SSL error code 1, net_error -3
fish: 作业 1, 'microsoft-edge-stable' 终止于信号 SIGSEGV (地址边界错误)

@vpont I reinstalled the package, and now it almost works as intended, and respects the NoDisplay value in app drawer. However, when choosing default web app in Gnome settings, it still lists two Microsoft Edges. It might be the Gnome problem.