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Elliot Kirk
Microsoft
MicrosoftTab Preview - Discussion
Hi Insiders, thanks so much for your feedback on the tab experience in the new Microsoft Edge. From reading your comments, it is clear that many of you would like an easy way to view more information...
Elliot Kirk, both options you describe would be nice, but please keep in mind some people may have trouble hovering their mouse over each tab to show a page preview once the tabs become very narrow. Also, you cannot hover over tabs to show a preview for the tabs that are not visible to the right (if Edge shows X number of tabs, once you have more than X tabs open, you cannot see those additional tabs on the right side).
Having the dropdown button to show all open tabs in a scrolling list should always work.
Another option is to have a scrolling tab bar to scroll through unpinned tabs. Firefox does this with "<" and ">" buttons at either end of the unpinned tabs.
Thank you for working on a solution to this problem.
jhahn0 I suggest you also uvote these suggestions on the feedback portal:
MarinM thank you for the links. I have upvoted each feature.
I'm using profiles in Edge (one browser for standard online user accounts and a second browser for online admin accounts with different themes for each browser to help differentiate the two browser windows). I'm using vertical tabs in the browser that has a lot of tabs.
This is working well for me. It took some getting used to going to the left instead of the top for tabs, but it does allow you to scroll through all the open tabs. Pinned tabs stay in the upper section and unpinned tabs are in a section below that I scroll through. Vertical tabs means a narrower, but taller view for websites, which works fine, if not better, for many sites.
Even if the features above get implemented, I may continue to use vertical tabs. Vertical tabs was not a long term solution for me, but after using it for several weeks, I like it more and more.
