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What do you think about vertical tabs?
Since vertical tab features released to the stable version of the Microsoft Edge, I believe majority of Microsoft Edge user would be able to try this feature out . I am wondering how is your experience about this feature?
Do you love it?
Are you using vertical or horizontal tab in most of the time?
Reza_Ameri I don't use them at all. Unless you have 15-20 tabs open, the vertical tab panel is mostly empty space, wasting a lot of screen space that could be used for content. Horizontal tabs take up a lot less space.
I'm curious about why you "believe majority of Microsoft Edge user have been using it". I suspect exactly the opposite.
- It doesn't take more space than the horizontal tab strip now that it hides the title bar. it takes the same amount of space.
in your screenshot, it's just expanded, that's why.- That's false. The viewing area is smaller on the screen even the vertical tabs are not pinned. You can activate it on this board for instance and watch the Microsoft logo shift.
- Regarding to "believe majority of Microsoft Edge user have been using it" what I was referring was like it is available in the released version of the Microsoft Edge. My sentence is misleading what I am referring to is since it is in the stable release , then almost all Microsoft Edge users would have access to this features.
- Thanks, Reza. As you say, almost all Edge users now have access to vertical tabs. Users who prefer vertical tabs or have a need for using vertical tabs will do so. My guess, though, is that most Edge users will stick with horizontal tabs because that is what they are used to, remains the current Edge default, and horizontal tabs meets the needs of most.
- Not interested in vertical tabs and never use them. What I want in Edge is scrollable horizontal tab bar, as in Firefox and also able to be switched on in Chrome (though my use of Chrome is miniscule). Lack of that keeps my use of Edge to just staying with my TV Guide open in it plus the Edge NTP and Bing homepage just to look for the daily pic in case I want to add it to my desktop background slideshow, while my real browsing is in Firefox where I often have 300, 400, even 600 tabs open, easily handled with the scrolling horizontal tabs.
- There are several features in the Microsoft Edge, and you might use what you want and don't use them if you don't see any benefit.
Regarding to this feature, you may share feedback about this through the feedback form.
- I'm not a fan of them, so I don't use them. It's good the option is there though.
Vertical Tab has come a long way since the initial introduction
implemented lots of features and changes in the meantime, such as making it Resizable and latest one was implementing this feedback from users.
Awesome New Feature: Vertical tabs now Hide Title Bar
my next favorite feature is Web Widget and its floating button
- Cześć
przeczytałem wcześniejsze opinie i jestem zaskoczony - ponieważ pionowe karty sa
doskonałe !
Ja od razu je ustawiłem i mam na wszystkich komputerach !
Zminimalizowane do ikony po najechaniu kursorem się wysuwają - jestem bardzo
zadowolony z tej zmiany !
Po przejściu na tryb pełnoekranowy - karty są pozime jak dawniej - ja uwielbiam
zmiany , a ta jest fatastyczna > polecam ! Reza_Ameri Love the idea BUT there should be a close tab button on top as its much too complicated to close one tab
this issue made me switch off vertical tabs
I'd like if the team would read my recommendations here:
I think tab grouped by domain should be default for pinned mode..
There's way too much vertical space available so it wouldn't hurt making some Titles for the Group like:[Favicon] DomainName
- TitleTab1
- TitleTab2
Then repeat that for the next group, it would resemble a real navigation menu making it more appealing to the eye as for the user.
//This is just a side note would be cool tho.
(You could even play around and place a search field at the top well like other modern navigation menus would be redundant tho. what wouldn't be redundant is following the fluent design guide line for side navigations placing settings and user'settings' at the bottom of the navigation thus moving one item from the top down to the navigation bar in case u don't know what I mean with user settings I mean that one round button at the top with user profile picture)
//Back to the feedback
As for the Flyout mode well thats annoying as hell the animation isn't smooth at all on well enough hardware I think thats a refresh rate issue on the rendering side.
I'd like to recommend being able to disable the flyout halfways replacing it with something similar that all windows users at least not hate a 'flyout' like on the Taskbar that shows a little preview of the site and the title (but please optimized so there's no loading lag) as for the close button just make it appear in front of the favicon as an overlay thats a much faster approach and less moving parts for accessibility reasons or something like that.
//A little quality time
Opening tabs is annoying to.. well atleast having more options wouldn't hurt
there are three ways to open tabs one of them is uhm just redundant so its okay (the one inside the three dots menu)
so there are two ways that are still kinda annoying one if you're not a power user you don't use
cmd + t the other one is the new learning curve that the new tab button now is inside a vertical list on the bottom moving farther down the more tabs u have but the first thing most of us do is.. well not looking down. (its okay for settings and stuff because thats something u want to look for if you need it)
So I'd like an option to move it up maybe switching place with [Disable vertical tabs] which should be able to be removable if someone chose to activate this feature I think they want to give it a try..
The other option would be giving it some space from the adressbar making it appear always at the top thus removing the learning curve for the end user.
Of course these are my personal opinions but give it a thought they're not that bad.
Reza_Ameri I absolutely love it! I usually have multiple tabs of one specific website open and I need to quickly see the title of each tab to distinguish between them (with horizontal tabs I need to hover over each of them to see this). I also like the fact that you can switch to horizontal on one window and stay on vertical on another window. Microsoft edge has turned from what I used to hate, to my favorite browser during the past year!
- Why would I use a feature that reduces usable screen estate from my browser? The title bar takes a good chunk of space that's pretty useless other than to display the title. My suggestion is to use the omnibar to show the title of the page, and show the url when you mouseover it. That way we actually save screenspace by using vertical tabs because the footprint of the top bar is reduced.
- Side bar is different story and you could customize or hide it.
The benefit of the vertical tab is when you have tons of tabs like 30 and you see them very small and it is hard to see icon and when you put them vertical, you see them as a list, and it is easy to manage.
It might not be helpful when you have few tabs but when you several tabs, then it would be a valuable feature.
