Vertical Tabs! Enable control of pin/collapse pane (please!)
Edge's native implementation of vertical tabs when combined with tab groups make it an ideal browser for organized productivity and that's why I continue to use it as my daily driver on all desktop platforms. There is just one major pain point I find with using the vertical tab features: toggling its visibility. Of course, using vertical tabs makes more efficient use of screen real-estate (for landscape-oriented displays), but that does mean less screen space for actual webpage content, a reality which becomes obvious with 2+ vertical-tab-enabled browser windows open side-by-side. Thankfully, Edge includes convenient UI buttons to "Collapse" and "Pin" the vertical tab pane's visibility, but this is currently the only way to toggle this behavior, diminishing productivity of keyboard-centric use. Recently, the Edge team added the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+,(comma) — which switches the UI between vertical and classic tabs at the top. This is great, but it negates the value of having a collapsible vertical tab pane which would still show webpage favicons in the same visual paradigm of a vertical list and feels like a much more natural UI toggle. Some other users in the Edge Insider community have pointed out that such a side-panel collapse/expand key shortcut exists in many other popular programs as well. I've been trying to find some way of automating the collapse/pin behavior of the vertical tab pane, but it doesn't seem feasible without a proper menu option. Please consider adding a key shortcut specifically for this behavior, or instead include an option in the alt-menu dropdown that can be triggered via something like Power Automate. Thanks again to Edge team for all their work
How do you handle sensitive PDF files in Edge without third-party cloud uploads?
Hi everyone, When working with sensitive PDF documents (like financial or personal files), most online PDF editors require uploading files to third-party cloud servers. This raises obvious privacy and security concerns for many users. The most reliable way to maintain data privacy today is using Client-Side Browser Processing (WebAssembly & JavaScript), where operations run entirely inside the local browser memory without transmitting any data over the internet. Key advantages of pure client-side processing: Total Privacy: Zero file transfers or external server logs. Instant Speed: Processing relies on your local CPU, bypassing slow upload/download waiting times. No Software Installation: Works directly inside browsers like Microsoft Edge. For those looking for a practical example of this architecture, https://pdfdocflow.com is a free tool offering 24 browser-based tools (merging, splitting, compressing, watermarking, and signing) operating 100% locally with zero server uploads. How do you usually handle sensitive PDFs while browsing, and do you prefer client-side web tools over installing dedicated software?
How to type on a PDF?
Hi everyone, I need to type directly on a PDF, but the document does not contain fillable form fields. I can open it in Microsoft Edge, but I’m not sure whether there is a reliable way to add text anywhere on the page and save the changes without affecting the original layout. Is there a built-in or free way to do this, especially if I need to change the font size and move the text into the correct position? I’d prefer not to convert the PDF to Word first, as that may change the formatting. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!
Feature Request: Per-profile default account selection in Microsoft Edge
Summary Allow the default account and external-link account-selection behavior to be configured independently for each Microsoft Edge profile. Description Microsoft Edge supports multiple profiles, which are commonly used to work with different Microsoft Entra ID / Microsoft 365 tenants and accounts. Currently, settings such as “Default profile for external links” and related account-selection behavior are shared across Edge profiles. This can cause one profile's account-selection preferences to affect the behavior of other profiles. We would like these settings to be profile-specific. For example: Profile A → user work account Profile B → admin (onmicrosoft.com) account When a user opens an external link while working in Profile B, Edge should consistently use the account/profile configured for Profile B, without inheriting or being affected by the preferences configured for Profile A. Expected behavior Each Edge profile should have its own configurable default account/profile for external links and related account-selection behavior. Changing the setting in one Edge profile should not change or override the corresponding setting in another profile. Use case This is particularly useful for administrators, consultants, developers, and users who regularly work across multiple organizations or Microsoft 365 tenants. Having profile-specific account selection would make multi-tenant workflows more predictable and reduce the risk of opening links with the wrong organizational account. Requested functionality Please make the relevant default-account and external-link account-selection settings profile-scoped rather than globally shared across Edge profiles.
Webview2 exe missing after edge update
After the recent edge update, the webview2 exe is not updated together. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\151.0.4129.59\msedgewebview2.exe is missing. This breaks webview2 apps on Windows. Is there some change to location of webview2? Any new API to get the location of the new webview2, or this is a genuine bug that need to be resolved by Microsoft?
[Wayland] PWAs no longer appear as separate app windows — all group under main Edge icon
Hi, Since around 2025-09-07 to 2025-09-10, I’ve noticed that on GNOME (Wayland) all installed PWAs (even across different profiles) now appear grouped under the main Edge browser icon in the GNOME Shell dash/taskbar. Previously, each PWA would open in its own window group with its own icon. This is still the behavior in Chromium/Brave/Chrome, and can be restored there by editing the PWA’s .desktop file to set: StartupWMClass=<same value as Icon> However, Edge now seems to ignore StartupWMClass completely on Wayland, breaking workspace separation and making task switching hard. Environment: Ubuntu 25.04 GNOME 48.0 / Mutter (Wayland) Kernel 6.14.0-29 Intel Iris Xe GPU Edge (latest stable, observed post 2025-09-13) Repro steps: Install any PWA (e.g. Outlook, Teams, Spotify) from Edge Launch it (from any profile) Observe that it appears grouped under the main Edge browser icon Expected: PWA shows under its own icon and window group like in Chromium-based browsers Actual: All PWAs are bundled into the main Edge window group Editing StartupWMClass in the .desktop file no longer helps This regression makes PWAs much harder to manage on Wayland. Please route to the Linux/Wayland team if possible. Thanks!
Edge Block/Add Site Notification - How to Disable with GPO?
Hello, I haven't been able to find answers anywhere so far to figuring this out. Currently looking into using GPO for disabling the Block/Allow to send site notifications tabs found in Privacy, search, and services -> Site permissions -> All permissions -> Notifications. I have been able to block to turn off notifications for all websites by default and block the "Ask before sending" notification settings in the same menu as mentioned above. I did so by creating a GPO with the following settings: Computer Configuration -> Policies -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Edge -> Content Settings After navigating to this folder, I opened the "Default Notification Setting" setting. Inside of it I switched it to Enabled and Don't allow any site to show Desktop notifications. I have already looked at the "Allow notifications on specific sites" and the "Block notifications on specific sites" settings, however these just allow you to add websites that you want to block or allow that the user cannot remove. I have discovered that putting a wildcard "*" into the "Block notifications on specific sites" settings values will not allow the user to add any more sites to the list. However this still leaves the user to add any site they wish to the "Allow notifications from specific sites" setting, which is the main concern considering all sites should have notifications disabled. Has anyone else had this problem and found a solution or workaround? This works in Chrome, but Edge has been difficult Thanks.
