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Introducing Workspaces in Edge | New feature
Workspaces
you can create multiple Workspaces in Edge, have tabs in each of them, and when you close all Edge windows and open Edge again, you still have your workspaces, it's like a combination of tabs set aside + tab groups + pinned tabs
experimental feature in canary, probably CFR. works really well so far
- This must be the alternative to set aside tabs that was announced in the top feedback summary. Finally!
As of Edge Version 91.0.858.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit)
the icon has the ability to appear on the right side of the GUI now.
What do you think? right is better or left? maybe option for user to choose it.
- Since it seems to be a candidate to replace Set Tabs Aside, I'd prefer it to be on the left to not screw my muscle memory lol
Workspaces and vertical tabs are two different thing. You can turn on both workspaces and vertical tabs at the same time, you can also have workspaces and traditional horizontal tabs. For me, I like to put workspaces button to right side.
1) Less mouse moves
2) Workspaces is a light weight use profile, they should put together. You can have 2 different workspaces while do not need to setup your favorite extensions and adblock rules again. If you do want to open another user profile, It is not too far.
HotCakeX Apparently this feature is still not available on MacOS -- neither Canary nor Dev have it at the moment.
- Having the control/menu on the right makes a certain kind of sense, since it’s near the profile selector (workspaces seem to be a sort of “subclass” of a profile, eh?)
- On the left next to the vertical tabs toggle... seems a little crowded
You’re right; it seems this may replace most* remaining “set aside tabs” functionality not available using existing workarounds involving the use of favorites and collections (i.e. maintaining per-tab forward/backward navigation history and tab page scroll position).
* Except for “Boss key”-style single-click functionality and (maybe) remembering which tab was selected. (Marking the selected/frontmost tab is actually the thing I miss most now that I use the “Save all tabs to favorites” feature.)P.S. This is an interesting addition along with the new well-designed “Kids Mode”.
One nice (per-workspace?) option might be to close all existing tabs/windows when switching, as is done when entering “Kids Mode” today.
Example:
- At the end of a workday, one could select their “Evening” workspace, and everything assigned to their “Work” workspace would disappear (from screen and hopefully from mind) automatically until they switched back the next morning.
That sort of 2-4 click functionality for context switching is still missing from the new Edge browser.
If this really preserves tab selection and page scroll location like the legacy “Set-Aside Tabs” feature, restoring everything as if nothing had happened, that would be quite amazing!
- Thanks for sharing this, since it's not in my Dev channel yet. There is a "workspaces" feature in Opera and I always thought it was brilliant. I can't wait to have something similar in Edge. I mean, it's like virtual desktops for your browser!
JordanQ wrote:
Thanks for sharing this, since it's not in my Dev channel yet. There is a "workspaces" feature in Opera and I always thought it was brilliant. I can't wait to have something similar in Edge. I mean, it's like virtual desktops for your browser!you're welcome, yeah it's something like that.
Workspaces is arguably the BEST feature we have seen added to Edge EVER. We have demoed Workspaces to all our heavy web browsing customers and ALL said they will switch from Chrome or Firefox when Workspaces is released.
Microsoft Edge Development Team - Workspaces is awesome! Thank You! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? Prioritize and release Workspaces!
- Just updated to dev 97.0.1069.0, "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Dev\Application\msedge.exe" --profile-directory="Default" -enable-features=msWorkspaces,msRightSideWorkspacesButton switches not work anymore. workspaces button is gone. Please make it back
Jeffz9527 -- This is an EXTREMELY distressing find and let's hope we get a reply from Microsoft HotCakeX on this very soon explaining what is going on. Is it possible Workspaces enablement has been moved into flags instead of the command-line only? I can tell you it's working great in the beta version using the command line enablement.
Joe
- Need my Workspaces back please!!!!
It is gone on Version 97.0.1069.0 (Official build) dev (64-bit).
Why remove one of the best features???? It is just great! One for Personal, One for Work, one for Finances, etc... Open/Close with a signle click.- I totally agreed with you, you can leave your message in thread https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/dev-channel-update-to-97-0-1072-8-is-live/m-p/2978378
As of 27 December 2021...
Workspaces are still working in the production version:
Version 96.0.1054.62 (Official build) (64-bit)
Time will tell if they disappear for everyone when production shifts over to the 97.x branch.
- I never got it, being a controlled rollout. ☹️
It is gone.
Microsoft use this for a totally different scenario: share tabs within groups
- Well, sharing workspace is an option. But you can still use them personally, can't you? So, it looks like it is back.
I can see this new Enable Workspaces flag now on the latest Edge build version 107.0.1418.8 (Official build) dev (64-bit), turned it on, but no Workspaces feature that I can see. Anyone got it working?
edge://flags/#edge-workspaces
- Well, at least we have closure, I guess. I was really hoping they'd bring it back. I'm sure this new feature will be a godsend for a lot of people, but it's odd that it's wearing the face of our cancelled feature.
AlienNation I've been using Workspaces Browser Extension, along with Tabs Aside. If M'soft won't do it, I found a workaround.
HotCakeX Is this feature available in the most recent Canary build for MacOS? I'm not seeing that little button next to the "Turn on vertical tabs" button. Thanks!
Hi,
it's not rolled out to everyone just yet.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/controlled-feature-roll-outs-in-microsoft-edge/m-p/763678I only use Windows.
- Great feature, I activated it according to https://www.realmicentral.com/2021/04/12/microsoft-added-a-new-hidden-workspaces-feature-to-edge-canary/
But later, I updated my windows 10 to 21H1 beta 19043.906, the workspace button disappeared 😞
- There are some issues though:
1) In vertical tab mode, there is some align issue of workspace button, Workspace name can not fully showed, but when I hover the mouse cursor on it, the name showed with a different background color.
2) When edge closed and launched, It entered a unsaved workspace window with last session' tabs. I have to select a named workspace and close the unsaved workspace window. - I added the command line parameters and it is a neat feature and the perfect implementation of Set Tabs Aside!
I cannot find a keyboard shortcut to switch between workspaces fast. Any ideas, anyone?
- Doesn't seem to be implemented yet, but you can send it using the feedback button on Edge as a suggestion so they will consider it.
(feedback shortcut: Alt + Shift + i )
- Great, just need to be synced
