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Introducing Workspaces in Edge | New feature
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/763678
I only use Windows.
But later, I updated my windows 10 to 21H1 beta 19043.906, the workspace button disappeared 😞
- I'd let it come to your installation naturally, using those brute force methods can cause unknown problems, so it's all at your own risk.
Jeffz9527 Thanks for sharing that article. Is it possible the reason the feature disappeared after your Windows upgrade is because your modified Canary shortcut (with the command line argument) was overwritten during the upgrade?
I'm on a Mac so I tried launching Canary from the terminal using this command:
open -a "Microsoft Edge Canary" --args -–enable-features=msWorkspaces
Canary launched, but the Workspaces features was not enabled.
HotCakeX Do you know who from Microsoft moderates this forum and could give us a more definitive understanding of the status of this interesting new feature? Example: Is it only currently available in the Windows build of Canary? Thanks!
If you're still trying to make this work, the reason your command isn't working is because one (or both) of two things; you have existing flags set in edge://flags that are overwriting your argument, or the command you used doesn't work at all. Anyways if you want it to work reset your edge://flags and use my command line, it should work that way. There are some other things I enabled on there that you can disable if you'd like.
mac:
"/Applications/Microsoft Edge Canary.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Edge Canary" --enable-features=GlobalMediaControls,GlobalMediaControlsPictureInPicture,TabHoverCards,UnexpireFlagsM90,msEdgeTabGroups,msEdgeTabGroupsAutoCreate,msTabGroupsCollapseFreezing,msTabSearch,msWorkspaces &!open -a "Microsoft Edge Canary" --args "--enable-features=GlobalMediaControls,GlobalMediaControlsPictureInPicture,TabHoverCards,UnexpireFlagsM90,msEdgeTabGroups,msEdgeTabGroupsAutoCreate,msTabGroupsCollapseFreezing,msTabSearch,msWorkspaces,msRightSideWorkspacesButton"
windows: "C:\Users\[username here]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge SxS\Application\msedge.exe" --enable-features=GlobalMediaControls,GlobalMediaControlsPictureInPicture,TabHoverCards,UnexpireFlagsM90,msEdgeTabGroups,msEdgeTabGroupsAutoCreate,msTabGroupsCollapseFreezing,msTabSearch,msWorkspaces
add ",msRightSideWorkspacesButton" if you want the button to be on the right, but I don't think this works on mac. You can make a .app out of this by using automator. I've uploaded my own https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WVSmDAhJqt-3CdNxKhhcac90KlflVHNc, but you should probably make your own.
Daniel00000 Thank you so much - success! I just tried my command line argument approach and it still didn't work. I then built up an app using automator (your tip) and I now have Workspaces enabled in Canary on the Mac. Many thanks!
- Thanks, The shortcut link still contain the flag, I turned off startup boost according to HotCakeX's suggestion, the feature came back.
Jeffz9527 Glad that worked out for you! As far as I know Startup Boost is only a feature on the Windows version of Edge. I'm thinking that Workspaces has not yet been ported over to any of the MacOS versions of Edge.
- Moderators are OK with this when I asked them,
as far as I know features like this in Edge shouldn't be related to Windows insider builds.
some of the features activated like this might only work on certain platforms/OSes.
when you modify an Edge shortcut, make sure launch Edge always from that shortcut and also try turning off startup boost because it keeps Edge executables running in the background and you won't see the effect on the new feature you activated.
hope that helps
