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Edge browser "moving tabs to a different window feature is broken"
hi Davecon1 This is a really solid write-up 👌 — the kind of feedback Microsoft actually pays attention to if it’s submitted through the right channels. For Edge browser issues like broken features or missing APIs, you have a few official options:
Best Places to Raise the Issue
- Microsoft Edge Feedback Hub (Windows built-in)
- Press Win + F to open Feedback Hub.
- Category: Microsoft Edge → Browser Experience → Tabs and Windows.
- Attach screenshots, repro steps, and optionally diagnostic logs.
This is the most direct way to get it in front of the Edge engineering team. - Microsoft Edge Feedback (in-browser)
- In Edge, go to … (menu) → Help and Feedback → Send Feedback.
- Paste your full write-up there.
- This goes straight to the Edge product team and gets triaged.
- Microsoft Tech Community – Edge Insider Forum
- Post here: Microsoft Edge Insider Discussions.
- Edge engineers and PMs are fairly active and sometimes comment directly.
- Great for visibility and community validation ("I have this issue too").
my recommendation would be : Submit via Feedback Hub first (so it’s in Microsoft’s official pipeline), then post your detailed version (like what you wrote above) in the Tech Community forum to rally other users.
Microsoft has done many things in recent years that made Win11 worse.
They stopped caring about what users want; instead of adding requested features, they add only things they can monetize or use to collect more user data, etc.
Win11 was never finished. Previous operating systems were fairly polished when released. 11, however, was and still is a skinned version of Windows 10 with changes that piss users off (see below).
They intentionally made some things more difficult just to suit their purposes and, in some cases, outright make it impossible or frustrating to do simple things, or turn things off that MS wants us to keep on, so they can collect data etc.
Case in point: in win10 you could go to 1 spot in settings and flip a toggle to turn off all background programs or quickly toggle on and off various programs. Took almost no time at all.
In 11 you have to go to settings, then to apps, then all apps, click the 3 dots on a program, select advanced features, which for a lot of MS programs doesn’t show up stopping you from doing anything (although if you search the program from the start menu you can still get to advanced settings for programs that don’t show it in the apps section). Once you do that, you can click the dropdown to stop the program from running in the background. Then click to go back… all that for 1 single program, and you have to do that over and over and over and over for every single program.
Then, for good measure, they reset some MS apps when you update to run in the background again, forcing you to go back to apps and turn them all off again, 1 at a time, over and over and over every time you update.
Makes it impossible to keep track of and too time-consuming to keep doing.
Same with certain apps (like Copilot, widgets etc). You uninstall them but as soon as you update windows or update in the MS store they come back, totally ignoring the fact that you chose to uninstall them MS just keeps ramming them down your throat endlessly till you finally give up and leave a bunch of their crap installed because you’re tired of having to waste time removing it over and over again every time you update.
MS has deliberately forced us to do things their way, forced us to let them do what they want on OUR computers, totally ignored user requests (still can’t move the **bleep** taskbar), and all they ever add is more unwanted AI, ads, recommendations, and more software we don’t want or need. Basically, they don’t add anything to windows unless they can use it to make more money off us.
And to insult us further, they’ve basically stopped developing Windows at all; every update now is almost exclusively for Copilot + PC’s rather than general users.