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MicrosoftUpdates to the New Tab Page in Microsoft Edge Insider preview builds
Elliot Kirk Newbie here! I've just started using Dev Edge (New Edge as I call it) and one issue with tabs on the New Edge is how crowded they are; with Old Edge, I literally have 50 or 60 tabs open at a time and I can clearly tell what each one is. It does require that I scroll side to side to see them all, but with New Edge, all the tabs are shown at once, and with that many tabs open, they are so squished together, I can't identify a single one! Will you widen the tabs to better mimic Old Edge, or will this be customizable in the future so power tab users like me can actually tell what I've got open?
Also, this may be the wrong place to ask, but scrolling is much too fast on New Edge. Old Edge, on the other hand, is nice, and smooth, and reasonable. Anyway to currently adjust this, or if not, in the future maybe?
Thanks!
Hi,
you're right, in the Edge classic we could view a small picture of the whole tab preview at the top of them, however in Chromium there is something similar and it will show you a preview picture of the tabs at the bottom of them.
it's called Tab hover card images but it's not available in Edge insider, only google chrome and it'd look like this
I hope Microsoft adds it, for now only Tab hover cards is available
for Smooth Scrolling, it's also available right now in Edge insider and you can active is using the flag
only changes that will come are improvements to this flag to make it even better, some of them are coming this month in October, some will come at later time. more details:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Top-feedback-summary-for-October-1/td-p/886926
Thanks very much for the info!
Unfortunately, I can't find where to set the flag for Smooth Scrolling. I looked everywhere under Settings and I couldn't find any reference to it, or to Experiments for that matter. I even tried using the search function under Settings, but search also didn't recognize either Smooth Scrolling or Experiments. I'm probably missing the obvious, right? I'm using Dev Edge if it matters.
Also, I understand what you're referring to with the small tab preview in Edge Classic (Old Edge to me!), but I'm not even talking about that. The tabs themselves are much larger in Edge Classic so that I can see a website's icon as well as the beginning text of the page's name. In Edge Insider, the tabs are so tiny, if I don't recognize the little icon, I can't tell anything about them!
Here's what it looks like in Edge Classic with a boat-load of tabs open:
As you can see, Edge Classic had much bigger tabs. Thanks again for taking the time to reply. I was having some trouble getting these pictures to upload.
You're welcome!
Oh the flags are all here: edge://flags/
(type it in the browser Address bar)
sorry I didn't mention that earlier 🙂
Yes true that, in Edge insider, when there are a lot of open tabs, they tend to get so compact
