Forum Discussion
Feature Requests: Keyboard Shortcut to hide/show vertical tab bar
I'm loving the vertical tab bar natively, but just have a few simple feature requests that would make it that much nicer for a power user:
1) Provide a keyboard shortcut to collapse and expand the vertical tab bar. I love the vertical tab bar for allowing for titles to be visible even when you have a decent number of tabs, but it does take up a lot of horizontal space, so I am often switching between it being and expanded and collapsed. A keyboard shortcut (something that requires only left hand) would make this so great.
2) Remove the 'x' from each tab unless the pointer is hovering over it. The 'x's on every tab just takes away space for showing more of the tab titles.
17 Replies
- I am disappointed that this isn't already a feature. 😞
Sometimes, when presenting, I want to hide all of my tabs. I hate the auto-hide behavior because when you have a sensitive mouse, it opens-closes-opens-closes-opens-closes, etc. In a lot of applications, you can expand and collapse the side-bar with `[` or `]` keyboard shortcut. Would really be nice to have this with Edge, now that I've switched to it from Chrome and Firefox. charlescharles Hey now standard macOS keyboard shortcut for Switching to next open window for the active app (Cmd + <) is hijacked by Hide/Show Vertical Tab Bar!
You can't do that. Don't hijack system keyboard shortcuts. Bring it back. Now.
- Just wanted to bump this in case anyone missed it; is this a feature anyone else would be excited by?
- Hi,
I don't think keyboard shortcut would help me. even if i open the vertical tabs sidebar with shortcut, i still have to move my mouse cursor over there to select a different tab, so that key press would be unnecessary since it automatically expands when i hover near there.- Two points on that:
- Sometimes I just want to see the titles of other tabs, and not necessarily navigate
- I commonly switch tabs with keyboard shortcuts - Command-Option-Left and Command-Option-Right (for macos), or Ctrl-Tab, Ctrl-Shift-Tab
