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Introducing sidebar search in Microsoft Edge
While I love this feature finally being available, I think the current implementation is jarring and I hope it's just a foundation for a better update in the future. There are in particular three issues that bother me:
1) First of all, I expected the Sidebar to be a flyout menu that stays above the current web page, instead it's the same container used for Collections, that pushes the webpage to the left, which is a very poor solution since it makes me loose focus on what I was reading
2) Once you summon the Sidebar, there's no visual feeback to close it, there's no close button and pressing shortcuts like ESC don't do anything. The only way to close it is to right click on the sidebar and press the Close button from the submenu
3) Using Google as the default search engine produces nasty results in the sidebar: I see the whole Google search page and I have to scroll it horizontally to see the search results. It should instead fit the sidebar width:
Thank you for using sidebar search and providing feedback!
Future iterations of the sidebar search UX will take of the the first and second issue that you flagged.
Regarding your 3rd issue, All non-Bing pages should open in a new tab. Could you please send feedback via tool in Edge with some details on how you got to this experience?