Apr 09 2021 02:38 AM - last edited on Jan 06 2022 06:06 AM by Allen
Workspaces
you can create multiple Workspaces in Edge, have tabs in each of them, and when you close all Edge windows and open Edge again, you still have your workspaces, it's like a combination of tabs set aside + tab groups + pinned tabs
experimental feature in canary, probably CFR. works really well so far
Jul 19 2021 05:41 PM
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Sep 29 2021 04:38 PM
Workspaces is arguably the BEST feature we have seen added to Edge EVER. We have demoed Workspaces to all our heavy web browsing customers and ALL said they will switch from Chrome or Firefox when Workspaces is released.
Microsoft Edge Development Team - Workspaces is awesome! Thank You! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? Prioritize and release Workspaces!
Nov 09 2021 04:29 PM
Nov 09 2021 09:13 PM
@Jeffz9527 -- This is an EXTREMELY distressing find and let's hope we get a reply from Microsoft @HotCakeX on this very soon explaining what is going on. Is it possible Workspaces enablement has been moved into flags instead of the command-line only? I can tell you it's working great in the beta version using the command line enablement.
Joe
Nov 09 2021 11:39 PM
@HotCakeX please give us any update regarding this feature
Nov 10 2021 06:45 AM
@pzasuwa I'm pretty sure that @HotCakex is not a Microsoft employee.
Nov 14 2021 06:06 PM
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Dec 27 2021 05:59 PM
As of 27 December 2021...
Workspaces are still working in the production version:
Version 96.0.1054.62 (Official build) (64-bit)
Time will tell if they disappear for everyone when production shifts over to the 97.x branch.
Dec 27 2021 06:14 PM
@JimGrisham @HotCakeX Here we are, EIGHT months later, and I have NEVER had Workspaces. The thing is, in my use of Edge (all four flavors), I would've been an excellent test bed for that feature. It gets a bit frustrating that M'soft seems to forget about features and they languish in cyber-limbo.
Dec 27 2021 07:05 PM - edited Jan 12 2022 12:16 PM
If you'd like to play with the feature, you could try creating new browser profiles... perhaps by installing Edge in a VM.
(I believe that someone previously stated that the user assignment for these 'controlled-roll-out' features gets chosen at random during/after installation?)
I don't suspect that Microsoft has forgotten about this; rather, the team is likely holding it back* until they are more confident in the final form in which it will appear. Let's give them time (yes, perhaps even another year or more) to do user studies and get it right the first time.
Perhaps counter-intuitively: the longer it takes to be released, the more likely it will be retained as a long-term feature.
* If I were the project manager (and I'm most definately not), I wouldn't let this sort of thing get released until a) it was much more tested and polished and b) all of the other Edge fires were put out. (We're still in the midst of a pandemic, after all.)
Update 2022-01-12 (since the reply / quick reply buttons are disabled for me right now, for a reason that I can't extract from DevTools):
In Edge 96 or earlier, if one had launched Edge with the appropriate command-line flags and then later launched Edge using the normal icon, any workspace windows the user had created just appeared as normal windows.
If Edge was closed and re-opened with the correct command-line flags, the workspace windows that were previous closed would appear and be classified by the correct workspace name/color.
After the v97 update, this behavior changed, and any workspace windows that weren't actually open prior to the update appear to have been lost!
These windows may return after downgrading to Edge 96... but in the meantime: if anyone has been using Workspaces and has not yet updated to v97, make sure you back up those windows before the update occurs on your PC.
Dec 27 2021 08:04 PM
Jan 08 2022 11:26 AM
As of Microsoft EdgeVersion 97.0.1072.55, Workspaces switch no longer works both on my Mac and PCs.
Anyone has the same issue and what's the milestone for this?
Jan 08 2022 02:59 PM
I can absolutely confirm that workspaces has been removed as of Edge 97 production release as I've been using it since it was put into beta and recommending it to many others. I had dozens of Workspaces which incredibly improved my productivity. Workspaces WAS THE BEST new feature of Edge and the whole reason I and many others I demoed it to switched from Chrome to Edge.
The last few years has seen one bad decision after another at Microsoft:
I could go on and on but I regress from the topic at hand...
Solution:
For those in the same boat this is what I did to stay productive and have 99% of the functionality which Workspaces provided:
https://pureinfotech.com/rollback-previous-version-microsoft-edge/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-porter-export-restore/hjbdgionekajacbeocbgopledpkegkmo
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/workspaces/hpljjefgmnkloakbfckghmlapghabgfa
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-porter-export-restore/hjbdgionekajacbeocbgopledpkegkmo
Regards,
Joseph Worrall
Lakewood Communications
Port Townsend, WA
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