Dev channel update to 79.0.287.2 is live

josh_bodner The updates to the New Tab page are great, but in my personal opinion there is still one area where the New Tab page is sorely lacking - the quick links themselves. There is still no way to rearrange tiles, rename tiles, or have more than 7 tiles active at once.

The lack of those 3 core features undermines the usability of quick links quite a lot, as I (and many others) tend to use them for a curated list of very frequently visited sites. This serves a different purpose than the bookmarks bar and menus, but is very difficult to make good use of so far in Edge:

• Being unable to rearrange tiles makes organization and spatial orientation more difficult, and if you accidentally unpin a tile (happens with some frequency) you can't get it back to the place it was without manually removing all other tiles past it and then re-adding them all, which is very time-consuming and frustrating.
• Being unable to rename tiles means that more often than not the title is basically just "https://www." and then a couple characters from the site - forcing you to identify sites by their favicon alone. Several tiles from the same site are even more unclear.
• Limiting the selection to 7 tiles (the "plus"/add tile never goes away) doesn't make a lot of sense when there is already a ton of whitespace present and the ability exists to hide other elements on this page. It would make sense to approach it the way Firefox does, with a default of a single row but a toggleable option to simply show more tiles.

I do realize Edge is not pursuing customization at any cost in the sense that say, Vivaldi does - but I don't think there's a need for advanced features here like tile folders, custom icons or anything like that - just a solid, core feature set that makes the New Tab tiles actually usable rather than just keeping them for the sake of feature parity.

For what it's worth, Chrome has been terrible at this for a long time as well (recently starting to get a bit better) - whereas Firefox, Vivaldi and Opera have always handled the New Tab tiles in a very useful manner.

Thank you for your time!