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Wider tabs, when many tabs are open
Hi, welcome to the forum!
I've read your post and I understand that you're having trouble identifying which tab is which when there are too many open tabs in the same browser window.
to solve this problem, I wanna suggest something that is more achievable for the developers reading this post.
in the classic Edge (the one that is in Windows 10 by default), there is this feature called tab preview:
as you can see it works by hovering your mouse cursor over the tab. so if you have 200 tabs open, you can hover your mouse over them and see a preview so you can know what the tab is about.
another feature that is already in Google Chrome:
I think this one is even better because you can change the settings to show you both the tab title and the tab preview image. in Google chrome it's called tab Tab Hover Card Images and it can be activated by a flag which means soon to be integrated into the browser by default.
so Microsoft can use either of these 2 features that already exist and make it happen.
Also, try this in your Edge insider browser, go to the Edge:flags and enable this flag:
it will only show you the tab title when you hover your mouse over it, not the image preview.
so let me know what you think about them and if they can/will solve your problem.
HotCakeX Hi and thanks for the welcome 
Very happy to see that this feature is always available in this new version of Edge. Yeah this help me very much to find my tabs (personally I've less tabs that the screencapture of edge), thanks 
But I always think that Chronium, the base of the project of the new edge, went in the wrong way for the tab bar management. It's not a wish for short-term but more for a long-term. For sure I know that is a huge task but the original version of edge had this scrolling navigation.
I found an old post from 2011 about this. But google have always not change the navigation of the tab bar.
https://support.google.com/chrome/forum/AAAAJk-fN9wm3VFHLk9R3U/?hl=uk
A little thing which can optimise quickly the navigation : we see after the + on the tab bar, there is a little arrow which was the tab menu and it the "big preview of tabs". Why not to use this type of arrow on the tab bar to add a menu where all tabs where listed. That would be very helpful for users which have many tabs. I looked for in flags and nothing about a menu like that to activate 
But for sure, for the long term a reshaped tab bar, would be a a capital gain compared to chrome.
auligeur Apparently it is being developed for Chrome now, although the flag doesn't currently do anything: https://mspoweruser.com/google-chrome-is-almost-ready-to-counter-tab-overload/
- This, is a very good news 😃
borednsecure Hey yeah, I thought I had read somewhere in the past that Chrome was going to add a scrollable tab bar. Still hasn't happened. I imagine that would a Chromium feature and therefore come to Edge too.
- I hope Microsoft make their own version of it, the one they made years ago in classic Edge way before Google even realized the need for such feature.
Classic Edge UI + Google Chrome engines = the perfect browser
- You're welcome ^^
You know I think it was a good move that Microsoft decided to use the open source chromium for their new browser but they should keep the UI of the classic Edge, it's been worked on for a long time. this Big tab preview i like that too, also the set tabs aside, the web inking, pdf inking and all other unique features included in the classic Edge.
