How to enable Stacked Tabs in Microsoft Edge

Today, we reported Google is removing Stacked tabs from Chrome citing minimum usage, as Chrome still supports feature in 2021, you can expect stacked tabs to work in Chromium Microsoft Edge also. Here is how you can enable the feature in the Edge browser.

What is the stacked tabs feature?

The stacked Tabs feature appeared first as flag 8 years back in Chrome. When enabled, tabs never shrink, instead, they’ll stack one over another on left and right with plenty of tabs open when there is not enough space on the tab strip for allocation of new tabs.
stacked tabs in Microsoft Edge tab strip

Enable Stacked Tabs in Microsoft Edge

1. Right-click on Edge shortcut on the desktop
2. Select Properties
3. In the target field at the end after giving space append following
--force-stacked-tab-strip-layout
4. click Apply.

Now, Launch Edge and open tabs, you can see tabs stacked on left and right.
Microsoft Edge Stacked Tabs gif

Google is removing support for the feature in Chrome, this may take some time. Till then, you can continue to use the command line shortcut for the Tab Stacking feature in the Microsoft Edge browser.

Tab organization in Microsoft Edge won’t be difficult with Vertical Tabs and Tab Groups available out of the box. Edge might even get Chrome’s Scrollable Tabstrip in the future, do you still want to Stack tabs in Edge?  Let us know in the comments below.

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Venkat Eswarlu

Venkat is an independent technology journalist and the founder of Techdows. He has been covering web browsers, Windows, and software news since 2009. His exclusive scoops on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge features have been cited by Forbes, TechCrunch, Wired, CNET, and other major publications.

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