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Introducing Workspaces in Edge | New feature
HotCakeX Is this feature available in the most recent Canary build for MacOS? I'm not seeing that little button next to the "Turn on vertical tabs" button. Thanks!
Hi,
it's not rolled out to everyone just yet.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/controlled-feature-roll-outs-in-microsoft-edge/m-p/763678
I only use Windows.
- Great feature, I activated it according to https://www.realmicentral.com/2021/04/12/microsoft-added-a-new-hidden-workspaces-feature-to-edge-canary/
But later, I updated my windows 10 to 21H1 beta 19043.906, the workspace button disappeared 😞- I'd let it come to your installation naturally, using those brute force methods can cause unknown problems, so it's all at your own risk.
Jeffz9527 Thanks for sharing that article. Is it possible the reason the feature disappeared after your Windows upgrade is because your modified Canary shortcut (with the command line argument) was overwritten during the upgrade?
I'm on a Mac so I tried launching Canary from the terminal using this command:
open -a "Microsoft Edge Canary" --args -–enable-features=msWorkspaces
Canary launched, but the Workspaces features was not enabled.
HotCakeX Do you know who from Microsoft moderates this forum and could give us a more definitive understanding of the status of this interesting new feature? Example: Is it only currently available in the Windows build of Canary? Thanks!
If you're still trying to make this work, the reason your command isn't working is because one (or both) of two things; you have existing flags set in edge://flags that are overwriting your argument, or the command you used doesn't work at all. Anyways if you want it to work reset your edge://flags and use my command line, it should work that way. There are some other things I enabled on there that you can disable if you'd like.
mac:
"/Applications/Microsoft Edge Canary.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Edge Canary" --enable-features=GlobalMediaControls,GlobalMediaControlsPictureInPicture,TabHoverCards,UnexpireFlagsM90,msEdgeTabGroups,msEdgeTabGroupsAutoCreate,msTabGroupsCollapseFreezing,msTabSearch,msWorkspaces &!open -a "Microsoft Edge Canary" --args "--enable-features=GlobalMediaControls,GlobalMediaControlsPictureInPicture,TabHoverCards,UnexpireFlagsM90,msEdgeTabGroups,msEdgeTabGroupsAutoCreate,msTabGroupsCollapseFreezing,msTabSearch,msWorkspaces,msRightSideWorkspacesButton"
windows: "C:\Users\[username here]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge SxS\Application\msedge.exe" --enable-features=GlobalMediaControls,GlobalMediaControlsPictureInPicture,TabHoverCards,UnexpireFlagsM90,msEdgeTabGroups,msEdgeTabGroupsAutoCreate,msTabGroupsCollapseFreezing,msTabSearch,msWorkspaces
add ",msRightSideWorkspacesButton" if you want the button to be on the right, but I don't think this works on mac. You can make a .app out of this by using automator. I've uploaded my own https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WVSmDAhJqt-3CdNxKhhcac90KlflVHNc, but you should probably make your own.
HotCakeX Thank you for sharing that link. I was not aware that is how MS deploys features to the Canary channel.
- You're welcome, it also applies to Dev, Beta and in some cases stable channel.
HotCakeX I did try to manually turn on this feature per the article you shared. I could not find anything related to Workspaces edge://flags.
This feature caught my eye because I think it will mesh well with my working style.
Do you know if there is a way to determine if it is even available yet in Canary for MacOS?
