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josh_bodner Of course! I was:
1. Hold down Alt
2. Press and release Tab
3. Release Alt
Repeat these 3 steps relatively quickly and the behaviour occurs when Edge is open.
I've reproduced this using the on-screen keyboard so that it's more obvious what I'm pressing: https://imgur.com/a/FIjo0ps, copy included below as well.
Microsoftlonglam Okay, so I think the best way to describe this issue would be, sometimes you alt+tab to what should be Edge, but instead of switching to Edge, a different window is brought to the front (in this example, the alarms app). What version of Windows are you seeing this on? And also, can you see if you can get this to happen in an older version of Edge like Beta? The reason I ask is because I've seen weird things happen with Windows alt+tab in general where I switch to an application, but a completely different window is brought to the front. And in that case, the application wasn't Edge. So, if you can get it to happen with an older version of Edge (or even another app that can have multiple windows, like Word or Excel), that would actually point to an issue with Windows, which is what I'd like to try to rule out.
Right, that's the perfect description. I'm on Windows version 20H2 build 19042.508. I got it to happen on Beta and Stable as well, only recently though, I think it started happening when the update that shows Edge tabs in the Alt-Tab menu came.
It seems to happen only if Edge is the first or second app interestingly, if it's the 3rd or further and not selected, the issue just never occurs.
So in short, it only happens when Edge is running and is the 'front' app. Occurs on Dev, Beta and Stable, currently on Windows version 20H2 build 19042.508.
- josh_bodner
longlam Since I'm not on 20H2 and still see something similar, I'd guess this is an existing Windows issue, but our team might be interested if our work to show Edge tabs in alt+tab is making it worse, so I'll definitely make sure they know. And the fact that it only happens when you quickly alt+tab (since moving to the 3rd or 4th slot takes time) suggests that this may also be timing-based, like Windows can't figure out fast enough which application it's supposed to bring to the front.
josh_bodner Ah I might have phrased that badly, I meant that when switching between 2 top-most apps, as long as neither of them is Edge, the issue just never happens, even if I'm switching between them rapidly (I bind a touchpad gesture to Alt-Tab, that's how I'm doing it so quickly).
However, when Edge is used (either the 1st or 2nd app), the issue start to occur. Apologies if there were confusions.
