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MVP

Mar 15, 2021

What if Edge automatically switched to Vertical tabs when too many tabs in horizontal tab strip?

Vertical tabs is great, no denying it, but it's useful the most when you have more than just a couple of tabs open, that way you can easily scroll through them, view their titles, resize the panel et...

Bronze Contributor

Mar 16, 2021

"What if Edge automatically switched to Vertical tabs when too many tabs in horizontal tab strip?"

What if Edge left it up to users if and when to use horizontal/vertical tabs, instead of imposing rule-based UI changes, opt-in or not, on users in the middle of trying to get some work done?

As for the pop-up ad disguised as a "suggestion", it is an unnecessary distraction and Microsoft ought to dump it immediately.

Kam

Silver Contributor

Mar 16, 2021

"As for the pop-up ad disguised as a "suggestion", it is an unnecessary distraction and Microsoft ought to dump it immediately."

IKR, very distracting when I'm playing games. Maybe the Edge devs should add some red circle where the update icon is on the ... ellipsis. If you click that it at the top of the menu it says "Want to try out vertical tabs? Click here for more information." and then it shows that pop-up. The same thing for sleeping tabs, very distracting when I'm playing games or searching on Bing.