Microsoft continues to improve immersive Reader in Edge browser. After letting you change the font, immersive Reader now allows changing text column width on different screen sizes to enhance the reading experience. In addition to this, Edge 94 comes with Sleeping Tabs improvements and new Accessibility Settings.
Immersive Reader in Edge browser comes with the following features:
- Read aloud, an accessibility feature reads the text of the webpage pretty loud.
- Text preferences provide a number of options to change text color, size, and font. Click on Text preferences, and check text size, text spacing, font, and page themes.
- Grammar Tools help in reading comprehension by splitting words into syllables and highlighting nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
- Reading Preferences helps to focus on reading one or three or five lines, see the picture meaning of a word and translate selected text language/ entire page.
- Other than the above it features special support for Wikipedia.
Change text column width in Immersive Reader in Microsoft Edge 94
1. Launch Edge
2. Visit a webpage you want to read, click on the open book icon in the address bar, or press F9
3. Click on Text Preferences, under Text column Style
4. Choose column style from Narrow, Medium, and Wide. Edge applies the change without the need to reload the page like magic.
Sleeping Tabs improvements
Sleeping Tabs save memory, CPU, and battery life. The feature when enabled starts to take effect immediately in less span of time. Thanks to the new timer interval.
Edge now lets you put inactive tabs to sleep immediately.
- Visit System and performance > Optimize performance,
- Enable “Save resources with Sleeping Tabs”
- Choose “30 seconds of inactivity”
Edge now shows estimated savings for each sleeping tab when you hover over.
Accessibility Settings
The Edge 94 comes with new a section for Accessibility Settings.
Here, it contains options to manage the assignment of F12 key to developer tools, Page zoom, and open system preferences for captions.
You’ll find the new section below “Phone and other devices” and above “About Microsoft Edge” and on “edge://settigs/accessibility” page.
More on Microsoft Edge:
Microsoft Edge now lets you Search through Vertical Tabs
Microsoft Edge’s Super Duper Secure Mode is available in Settings
Edge Web Widget now needs Ad Blocker to be disabled to work, but there is a better Workaround
Microsoft Edge 92 stable for Android with Unified Codebase now available
