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MicrosoftDev channel update to 86.0.622.3 is live
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Vertical tabs are not that useful to me if the space at the top remains the same. Just pointing out.
M_S If the title bar goes away, there will be no place for the minimize, maximize, or close buttons. I had the same thoughts until I really thought it through. Where should those buttons go? I also wish you could resize the vertical tabs. Just the icon is not enough to know which tab you need if several tabs use the same icon, but the full tab is too much.
Russ_Turrentine This would be a perfect use for reveal tabs: both hovering over individual tabs, and a button to reveal all. You know, the feature that's been discussed for close to a year, with absolutely no response from Microsoft and josh_bodner (sigh).
- josh_bodner
Russ_Turrentine if you haven't yet, make sure you file feedback about being able to resize the vertical tabs, that way we'll be able to count how many people are asking for it!
- M_S Agreed. The vertical space needs to shrink. The title bar itself needs to go away to make any difference in vertical height. josh_bodner any plan for this?
- josh_bodner
ankitbko That unused space is now just a standard window title bar like most other applications have (the ones that don't have a standard title bar still have one, they just put extra stuff in it like Office does, or for that matter like we do when the tabs aren't in vertical mode). That's actually much harder to get rid of than you'd think, since as somebody else pointed out, the window control buttons have to go somewhere. And since title bars are very standard UI pieces in any operating system, it would be a lot of custom work to get rid of it. You also would need some way to drag the window around, and by that point you're adding more buttons and multiple areas of dead space to the address bar area (only a single dead space won't work if that space is the part of the window that's off screen; Edge Legacy suffered from that problem, and we got TONS of feedback about people who couldn't move their window because the draggable space wasn't visible), making it even more cluttered and hard to use. And an address bar that's too skinny to see the full website is also a security concern, at least compared to its current design. I'm not saying we'd never do it, but because of all those things working against us, it would be pretty low on our priority list unless we got overwhelming feedback about it.
