Microsoft Edge is about to make moving tabs between windows and different profiles a lot easier than before with the new “Move tab to” menu item in the tab context menu. The feature is available behind a flag in Edge Canary, here is how you can enable and make use of it.
With Microsoft Edge, if you’ve plenty of tabs open, Edge allows moving an active tab to a new window or another open window.
If you’ve set up multiple profiles in Edge, the browser allows sending tabs to different profile windows when you use the option in the tab context menu.
In both instances, you need to right-click the tab and select “Move tab to new window” and “Move tab to profile window”.
Microsoft Edge is now offering these options in one menu called Move tab to.
This menu item allows you to select a window or profile window to move the tab to.
Enable new design for Move tab context menu item on Microsoft Edge
- Ensure you’re using Edge Canary 92.0.866.0 or later
- visit edge://flags
- Find and enable “Move tab context menu item new design”
- Restart the browser.
In related news to Edge browser, Microsoft continues to experiment with new features in Canary. To the latest,
- The company is working to make the text on the web page look clearer, sharper, and readable
- Replacing the vertical tabs button with a new action menu that allows users to close vertical tabs, open recently closed, and add tabs to the new collection.
- Edge now allows adding screenshots created and saved with Web Captures to Collections.
- Microsoft promised it will let users create Vertical tabs as groups. The company recently said “users can find and manage their (vertical) tabs easily by organizing into associated groups. The Redmond software giant here could be hinting about the workspaces feature available to select insiders in canary.
