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Tab preview in taskbar
HotCakeXI work on multiple topics at the same time and open each topic in a separate browser window to keep them organized. I don't always want to return to the last tab I was viewing. With the current setup, if I have 4 browser windows open, each with 4 tabs, I may have to switch to 4 different windows, and look through all the tabs before I find the one I want. With the IE setup, I had up to about 16 tab previews when I hover over the IE icon on the taskbar and could go directly to the one I want. Having the preview made it easier to deal with more open tabs, not harder. And If it's a screen size/resolution thing, then make it an option. that way people with large screens can enable it. (I don't even work on a huge screen, it's just a 15" 1920x1080 in native resolution 100% scale).
I just remembered something,
you can actually do this, hold SHIFT and click on Edge icon on the taskbar, you will get this
- shift no work in my Win10 Pro. Still shows just 1 of # of open windows with each app in taskbar. 😞 That was useful. I miss it. Seems recent update removed that to reduce system performance reductions. Mine did get bit laggy if i had lot of browser windows, document windows, MS 365 Outlook open doing email chk every 15 mins, task manager so i keep eye on when pc cpu busy, when it is i look on screen to see what hogging cpu and mem and disk. Sometimes it's obvious and short lived like Avast doing checks or Outlook chking email, or other not open but checking for updates maybe. Easy to end task stuff i don't want or need running then... maybe it's for the better since pc hasn't got laggy much if at all since this feature was updated out. Not a big deal I guess. Can adjust to it. IT STILL WORKS WITH OTHER APPS LIKE WORDPAD OR MS 365 WORD. I just tested that, once I open enough doc files that fills task bar, taskbar is set to combine windows in same app tab, they join, peek view shows all 5 open. 😉 SO IT'S JUST BROWSER TASK BAR TABS STOPPED FROM SHOWING ,,MU;TI OPEN BROWSER WINDOWS PEEK. JUST THE ONE LAST OPENED. OH WELL, INSTEAD OF PEEK JUST CLIK IT AND THEN THE TAB AT TOP YOU WANT.
HotCakeX Holding Shift and clicking on Edge/Edge Beta gets me a new window. It doesn't display all of my currently open tabs in a preview.
Alex Carlock wrote:HotCakeX Holding Shift and clicking on Edge/Edge Beta gets me a new window. It doesn't display all of my currently open tabs in a preview.
Yes but since you said you don't like to use tabs then you can open each tab/website in a new window to be easier to recognize.
HotCakeX Oh, I must not have been clear. I love using tabs. I typically open a new browser window and perform a search (say for Windows support), and I open each result I want to look at in a new tab. Then I open a new browser window to search for another topic (say OneNote help), and open each result I want to look at in a new tab. Repeat the process for what ever else I'm working on. This way each window is a different topic with multiple tabs for each result.
In IE, if I were to do that in one browser window, each new tab that's opened from another tab automatically gets the same color as the "parent tab". That doesn't seem to happen in Edge Beta. after enabling the option you suggested above, I have to manually click tabs and add them to a group. Also, if I move a tab left or right, it looses the tab group/color. Am I missing something? That doesn't seem as helpful as the old IE method (which because of my color deficiency wasn't as helpful for me as it may be for other people).
