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Oct 04, 2019

Updates to the New Tab Page in Microsoft Edge Insider preview builds

Preview builds of the next version of Microsoft Edge include an all-new New Tab Page, which gives users the option of personalized layouts that provide options for search, top sites, and a personaliz...

lister1911

Brass Contributor

Oct 10, 2019

Elliot Kirk

I initially reported that in Edge Classic, the tabs are much larger and easier to see, and that with Edge Insider (79.0.294.1 dev 64bit) the tabs are crowded and super tiny. Well, I discovered a related issue last night; in Edge Classic we could scroll side to side because not all the tabs were visible across the top of the browser. Since they were larger, scrolling side to side was necessary so you could get to the tabs you couldn't see off screen. Well, with the new Edge Insider, it will cram all the tabs together to try and fit them all on screen, except that after about 85 or so, the rest are simply off screen and not shown or accessible via the mouse. And there's no way to get to them except by using shortcuts (ctrl+tab or ctrl+sft+tab) because there's no side scroll capability. I'm not sure if you folks had noticed that, because I'd wager not a lot of people are silly like me and have over 85 tabs open at once! But if you do have that many open, it becomes a significant pain to find those invisible tabs.

Thanks very much!

HotCakeX
MVP
Oct 10, 2019
lister1911 wrote:
Elliot Kirk
I initially reported that in Edge Classic, the tabs are much larger and easier to see, and that with Edge Insider (79.0.294.1 dev 64bit) the tabs are crowded and super tiny. Well, I discovered a related issue last night; in Edge Classic we could scroll side to side because not all the tabs were visible across the top of the browser. Since they were larger, scrolling side to side was necessary so you could get to the tabs you couldn't see off screen. Well, with the new Edge Insider, it will cram all the tabs together to try and fit them all on screen, except that after about 85 or so, the rest are simply off screen and not shown or accessible via the mouse. And there's no way to get to them except by using shortcuts (ctrl+tab or ctrl+sft+tab) because there's no side scroll capability. I'm not sure if you folks had noticed that, because I'd wager not a lot of people are silly like me and have over 85 tabs open at once! But if you do have that many open, it becomes a significant pain to find those invisible tabs.

Thanks very much!
lister1911

This is great suggestion, I felt the need for this too, sometimes I have to keep at least 100-200 tabs open and that's when the problem starts