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Eric_VanAelstyn
Microsoft
Mar 23, 2023Edge Workspaces preview for consumer accounts now available
Today, we’re excited to announce that the preview of Edge Workspaces for consumer accounts is now available!
At Ignite 2022, we announced Edge Workspaces, the multiplayer browsing experience that lets you organize projects in separate, customizable browser windows which can be easily shared with others. Collaborators in a workspace share the same set of tabs so they can easily stay in sync and browse together. Previously, Edge Workspaces was only available as an enterprise public preview, but today we’re expanding that preview for anyone who wants to try it out at home on your own, or with friends and family.
Preview details:
- You will need to be signed into Microsoft Edge 111.0.1661.51 (or higher) on a PC with your Microsoft account to join the preview (macOS preview availability targeted for early April 2023).
- You will get five invites to send to friends and family to join the preview with you.
- We’re starting with a limited group of users to get feedback and will continue to roll out the preview to more users through the spring.
Click here to sign up for the Edge Workspaces Consumer Preview.
Please submit feedback using the thumbs up or down prompt in the Edge Workspaces menu, or through the feedback tool in Microsoft Edge.
- Anatoly YakubovCopper Contributor
Eric_VanAelstyn
August 2023, MacOS, Latest browser
Work profile - works fine.
Personal (MS) account - no option in menu, preferences, anywhere
A tab has "move to>>> another window" that later works as move to workspace.
But in general it is still a mess. Hard to find menu "Groups", Add to Collection everywhere, Worskpace..
All there should be present for a tab and in menu (right-click and menu-bar).- Anatoly YakubovCopper ContributorManaged to get it working on Mac.
Enabled Workspaces on PC using same account, so they showed up in Preferences on Mac too.
But it is unusable, as "Reconnecting to Workspace service" message-bar pop-up every 5seconds, because of many tabs opened (sleeping). Just in general, a few hundreds of tabs - makes Edge unusable in general (got broken in 2023).
- GetPsyched6Copper Contributor
Workspaces are great but a few issues. the three buttons on the top take up so much space that it's a bit annoying. it puts the actual workspaces section so far down. could put it in an overflow menu, perhaps? also, the color coding thing changes the color of the title bar, which looks really bad with a theme. and without color-coding it's really hard to see which workspace is which at a glance. what about a way to change the icon to any emojis? or maybe allow the color coding to just affect the workspace name without messing with the browser theme. Thank you!
And I hope eventually we can move away from it making multiple windows and make it completely contained in one window. a bit like safari tab groups. (could make this an option)
- montilaaaaCopper Contributor
- Iam_FelixCopper Contributor错误: 由于处理 URL 请求时出错,无法连接。请重试。错误代码: 36
怎么解决?- montilaaaaCopper Contributor
- starki7Copper ContributorWorkspaces are awesome!
I think it's a new milestone in browser usability.
My question is, are they coming to the mobile version?
Thank you for good work and best regards! - bambooliuCopper ContributorI like it, but sometimes the Workspaces Consumer Preview seems to have connectivity issues. I have created a new workspace, and occasionally I cannot open it. What is causing this? I am using it in China. Additionally, I would like to know if the data is stored in my OneDrive.
- I love this feature, specially when it automatically saves and syncs everything across devices!
For example few weeks ago I opened some tabs in a Workspace, now after reinstalling my OS on a new device, signed in, and went to Workspaces and opened it, there was my tab from few weeks ago! - jakeinator21Copper ContributorThis sort of feature is what I had hoped Collections would be, except even better because it's open to collaboration as well. Wish this had been released before my last week of college, could've been really useful for team projects lol. Really looking forward to trying this out though.
- Lukasz_SkrzypeckiCopper Contributor
Problem z udostępnianiem obszarów roboczych w innych profilach przeglądarki.
1. Obecnie mam trzy różne profile w przeglądarce.
2. Po przełączeniu do innego profilu obszary ustawione w innym profilu nie są wyświetlane. Zostanie wyświetlone okno dodawania nowego obszaru. Ponadto przycisk (+) jest lekko przesunięty w górę.
3. po wklejeniu linku zaproszenia pojawia się błąd: "Jeden moment, gdy łączymy się z Twoim miejscem pracy. Błąd: nie można nawiązać połączenia z powodu błędu przetwarzania żądania URL. Spróbuj ponownie. Kod błędu: 36"
- daniel2311Copper Contributor
its easier to collaborate if edge has something like teamsyncbookmark extension
- MaryBSteel Contributor
if you find that the link just goes back to this page, it means that you need to update your Edge browser: that might be a handy thing to note next to the link!