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bkonia
Brass Contributor
Jan 13, 2021

Pinned Tabs in Vertical Layout

What happened to pinned tabs in the vertical layout? They used to display as icons, like how they display in the horizontal layout. Now, in the latest Canary and Dev builds, they're displayed like re...
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HotCakeX
MVP
Apr 26, 2021
It's a change that made by Edge developers at the request of users, if you would like, please use the feedback button on Edge to share your feedback.
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gweather
Brass Contributor
Apr 26, 2021

HotCakeX 

Thanks for taking all our feedback into account

I, personally love the way it is now with only the favicon, I'm all for user options though. 

 

anugerah-accelbyte 

I wouldn't see much difference in a pinned and unpinned tab they looked the same, showing the site/page title. Since tabs can be rearranged, how would a pinned tab showing the whole title help over and unpinned tab that you have at the top of the list. (Serious question, not trying to be snarky)

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    Daikar295
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 22, 2022

    gweather  My reason would be when you want multipile pinned tabs that happen to share the same Icon, it's impossible to know what site is what without hovering over it. A way to customize the icon would be nice to

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    anugerah-accelbyte
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 26, 2021

    gweather they look the same but they behave different. Pinned tabs will automatically open when I launch the browser. And they won't be closed by the close other tabs option. If you have to keep tabs (no pun intended) on multiple tabs then it'll be a hassle to open them again each time.