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cepowell
Copper Contributor
Jun 15, 2023

Edge Sidebar detach to Windows / re-attach to Edge (missing from 116)

I was enjoying and becoming dependent on detaching the Sidebar but it has disappeared from Dev.  Is Sidebar detach dependent on any flags (Did I do something?), or has it been recalled?
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atlanto
Iron Contributor
Jun 21, 2023

Just to make sure, open edge://metrics-internals and go to "Variations" tab, find "standalone" in the page. (never mind a warning when leaving this page, btw)
You may or may not be able to find the element such as below.

 

        "ShorelineEdgeBarPrototype": {
            "enableFeatures": [
                "msShorelineStandaloneSidebar",
                "msEdgebarHoverToLaunch",
                "msEdgeSidePaneUnpinInEdgeBar",
                "msEdgeSidePaneResizeInEdgeBar",
                "msShorelineSearchSidebarPinning",
                "msUndersideSidebarPinning",
                "msUndersideResizable",
                "msEdgeShoppingShorelineHeader",
                "msShorelineHeaderMenuDisableNotifications",
                "msEdgeShoppingInEdgeBar",
                "msShorelineStandaloneSidebarPrefsFlyoutMenu"
            ]
        },

 

If you have it and no detachable sidebar, something wrong on your edge.
If you don't have it, your edge is configured as such. Edge is receiving the configuration whenever launched. This configuration is being changed at any time. You can wait it until be changed as you expected... No one can say it will come, though.
You can apply those features via command-line temporarily but it's too long. A batch file may be required then. Even if it is not practical.

 

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Dev\Application\msedge.exe" --enable-features=msShorelineStandaloneSidebar,msEdgebarHoverToLaunch,msEdgeSidePaneUnpinInEdgeBar,msEdgeSidePaneResizeInEdgeBar,msShorelineSearchSidebarPinning,msUndersideSidebarPinning,msUndersideResizable,msEdgeShoppingShorelineHeader,msShorelineHeaderMenuDisableNotifications,msEdgeShoppingInEdgeBar,msShorelineStandaloneSidebarPrefsFlyoutMenu

 

 

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