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ukp2021
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Mar 15, 2021

Edge Vertical Tab not working in MacOs

I am using latest version of MacOs Big Sur (11.2.3).

There seems the vertical tab not working in full screen mode. 

When i am making full screen mode it switch back to horizontal tab mode automatically.

 

is anyone facing this issue ?

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  • Hi,
    this is not an issue/problem since the vertical tabs support for full screen mode simply hasn't been implemented yet.

    comment from an Edge developer:
    "vertical tabs aren't enabled on any platform in full-screen yet since we're still determining, among other things, the interaction that would make the most sense. "

    https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/dev-channel-update-to-89-0-774-4-is-live/m-p/2112350/highlight/true#M43209



    there have been changes to the vertical tabs, this is the most recent one:

    https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/awesome-new-feature-vertical-tabs-now-hide-title-bar/td-p/2205826
    • Cleefun's avatar
      Cleefun
      Copper Contributor
      Any progress on this issue? Is MS working on it? It's such a bad experience when switch from Windows with vertical tabs on to MacOS.
    • JPG87's avatar
      JPG87
      Copper Contributor
      Is this "reason" still valid in 2023? There´s no solution even in 2023

      • ukp2021's avatar
        ukp2021
        Copper Contributor
        Seems like Yes, there is no solution Yet for Mac Device, but seems it is there for Windows devices
    • mrc__'s avatar
      mrc__
      Copper Contributor

      Vertical tabs in fullscreen mode were working a few months ago, however they were a bit buggy. In a frustrating update, the feature was entirely disabled in fullscreen mode again and is still fully disabled. I believe the ability to use vertical tabs in full-screen mod was probably a bug before with how they disabled it on Mac, letting you re-enable vertical tabs in full-screen mode when you weren't supposed to be able to in the right-click context menu.

      It technically isn't a bug now, but it is something that would be nice to have. Having to keep Edge in a shared/normal desktop instead of being able to fullscreen the application is a frustrating limitation in MacOS, where full-screening an application is the only way to give it a dedicated virtual desktop (a workflow I think is a little easier in Windows).

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