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Edge browser "moving tabs to a different window feature is broken"
I am writing to bring attention to fundamental browser functionality issues that significantly impact productivity and user workflow organization.
**Primary Issues:**
- **Tab Manager Extension Limitations**: Browser extensions like Tab Manager Plus cannot access custom window names that users create, despite these names being clearly visible in the browser's own interface (such as Edge's right-click "move tab to window" menu). This prevents users from effectively organizing tabs across multiple named windows.
- **Broken Tab Movement Feature**: Microsoft Edge's right-click option to move tabs to specific windows is currently non-functional, randomly placing tabs in unintended windows rather than the selected destination. This feature worked properly until approximately 8 months ago.
**Technical Inconsistency:**
The most concerning aspect is the inconsistent access to window name information. Edge displays custom window names in its native right-click menu, proving the browser can access this data. However, this same information is not available to extensions, creating an artificial limitation that serves no apparent security purpose.
**Impact on Users:**
These limitations force users to manually drag tabs between windows and prevent efficient workflow organization. For users managing multiple projects simultaneously, this represents a significant productivity barrier.
**Request:**
Please consider implementing API access for extensions to read custom window names, and prioritize fixing the broken tab movement functionality in Edge. These are fundamental organizational features that enhance rather than compromise user experience.
**Comparison to Other OS Features:**
It's worth noting that displaying user-created names for folders, files, and other OS elements has never been considered a security concern. Window names should be treated similarly.
I hope you will prioritize these user experience improvements in upcoming updates. Many users rely on systematic browser organization for their daily workflows.
Thank you for your consideration.
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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.
