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Tab 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 about your tabs to quickly identify which one you are looking for. This problem can be particularly painful when you have many tabs open at once, perhaps appearing similar to each other with repeated site titles or icons, and you'd like to avoid having to switch to each of them to find the right one. Many of you specifically cite "tab preview" from the legacy version of Microsoft Edge as a helpful tool in this situation.
Top Feedback Item: Bring the tab preview feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge
As we investigate this feedback further, we'd like to ask for your help to make sure we are solving the right problem and get the experience just right. For example, in the Microsoft Edge Legacy , there were actually a couple of methods to preview the contents of a tab. One way was to hover over a tab, and a little thumbnail and description of that specific tab would appear with more information. Another method was to select an arrow to the right of the new tab button to open a persistent preview of all the open tabs simultaneously.
Could you tell us more about your experience in this area, and what you would like to see going forward? For example, which of the legacy version of Microsoft Edge tab preview features did you specifically use, and how did you use it? What problems did this feature help you solve and how? What types of information is particularly useful in a preview of a tab and why?
Thanks for your help, we look forward to working with you to improve the new Microsoft Edge in this area.
132 Replies
- Page previews in table of contents as a tab
I like both features, hover and small arrow. Both are useful.
I also wants to add a simple shortcut like Ctrl + Down Arrow to show the previews of all tabs (or Active Tab) in this way we don't need to move the mouse arrow from browser.
Think about it.
and also i want to know that is the tab preview also works for vertical tabs, coz in the vertical the preview looks like a snippet used in wikipedia.
- Hi ,
I would like to see the improvement that when I scroll through my open and muted tabs in the sidebar the only this tab gets unmuted when I choose it .
At the moment all feeds gets unmuted when I scroll over it via mouse Allow Tab Previews to be displayed Without the title of the tab and the domain name
Elliot Kirk Thanks for sharing.
I've always considered tab preview very unhelpful and quite annoying. I've rarely could identify the tab by preview, probably because I tend to have text heavy pages for a couple of websites only, github, wiki, asana, couple of news outlets. The best way for me to identify the tab is and icon and page title.
I would rather prefer to have an option to use address bar to double as search bar for open tabs. E.g. suggestion option with 'Open tab' indicator.
I hope that if preview is implemented it would be possible to turn it of and out of sight completely.
Elliot Kirk I hope a feature like this will be able to be turned off in a way that it occupies no hardware resources. I had other recently activated-by-default features use insane system resources (>400 Edge processes starting up at once can pretty much wreck a system, as expected, but even knocked my router offline) and would like to dodge further 'improvements' of that type.
- I feel that a lot of the time in verticle tabs that the text gets cut off and is hard to read. Having the ability when verticle tabs are pinned to make the side panel resizable/adjustable to how wide you want it so that we can possibly read the text for the tab. Or you could make the text for the tab move like with song titles in music players so that you would be able to read the entire text.
Elliot Kirk We can choose alternate that is Link Preview.
consider when you right-click on a link and choose link preview and the web link shown in a small rectangle box without needed to open it on new tab and this will save time and at the same time loading problems.
I got this idea from Wikipedia preview like this one.
Just Consider about it.
Thank You.
- So far, I really like tab preview, a lot! I'm noticing that the previews don't seen to populate until I've actually viewed the web page--e.g., if I open the browser to reopen tabs from the last instance.
Elliot Kirk This is already available.
Tab info: edge://flags/#tab-hover-cards
Tab preview images: edge://flags/#tab-hover-card-images
I have enabled both of these, and I like it.
Kam, @Elliot Kirk I enabled those two flags, and it works, to some extent. Many of the web pages display; some don't, for some reason. It took several seconds for them to populate, but so far it's very, very promising.
Regards,
Dan
