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Brass Contributor

May 23, 2019

Solved

Vertical Tabs

The ever shrinking tab sizes in Chrome/Edge as you open new tabs is a really bad UX. One reason I often keep too many tabs open is because I can't read the title to decide which of them I could close...

melvynadam
Oct 28, 2019
sambul95 Tab Groups only partially solve one of the problems mentioned by the OP. They don't solve the real estate issue and I'd argue they're only a partial solution to the UX issue. Vertical tabs are a game changer and Edge needs them.

cjc2112

Bronze Contributor

Aug 08, 2020

gwelch55 Some canary builds are coming with vertical tabs. Its not a flag though.

Pavlyukoff

Copper Contributor

Aug 10, 2020

Thanks fro screens. Installed canary (86.0.601.0), but cannot see those.

cjc2112
Bronze Contributor
Aug 13, 2020
Pavlyukoff They got removed yesterday in an update and I am really disappointed. I lost all my tabs that were in the vertical layout and I was just starting to get used to the layout. I honestly don't know why they removed it.

Edit: Its back now.
Edit: Nope its gone
Edit: Its back
Edit: ... its missing yet again.
- Oldschool2085
  Copper Contributor
  Aug 13, 2020
  What's wrong with using the Collection feature.
  - bkonia
    Brass Contributor
    Aug 13, 2020
    Apples and oranges. As Pavlyukoff correctly stated, Collections are just glorified bookmarks. Vertical tabs provide a completely different and far superior browsing experience. Right now, I have 20 tabs open, so all the tab titles are truncated and I have to navigate based solely on the favicons displayed in the tabs. With the tabs arranged vertically, there would be no truncation. It's disappointing that Microsoft promised vertical tabs many months ago, but this feature is still not implemented.