Vertical Tabs is undoubtedly one of the popular and unique features of Microsoft Edge, apart from Startup boost, Collections, Sleeping Tabs, and others. Last year, Microsoft introduced Vertical Tabs for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The feature puts all horizontal tabs in one column on the left side. Users running ultrawide monitors may love the feature. Upon request from users, Microsoft has planned to add one more feature for Vertical Tabs. Continue to read on for more details.
Vertical Tabs in Microsoft Edge
Whether it is Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome, if you’ve plenty of tabs open, the tab bar gets shrunk to accommodate dozens of tabs horizontally, making it difficult to identify tabs and site titles, you can only see icons, not titles then.
Vertical Tabs avoids this issue by displaying all tabs on the side, titles will be clearly visible.
To turn on Vertical Tabs, click on the tab actions menu on the top left of Edge and click “Turn on vertical tabs”. You can do this faster by using the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+. The shortcut toggles Vertical tabs on and off.
If you want to be more focused, you can collapse the pane where the left column only shows the icons. To interact with tabs on the side again, hover over it again.
To sum it up, Vertical Tabs allow moving tabs to side, hide the title bar. The layout makes it easier to quickly scan, identify and switch to the right tab. You’ll be able to organize tabs where you’ll be able to multi-select, close, and reorder desired ones.
Edge with Tab Search feature may even allow searching through Vertical Tabs also.
Microsoft to allow users to move Vertical tabs in Edge to the right side
Users have requested Microsoft to allow them to place Vertical Tabs on the right side, till now they appear on the left side of the screen by default.
Microsoft in the Top Feedback summary for the December post said it has planned the feature.
“We are moving Users can move Vertical Tabs to the right side of the screen from under Review to Planned this month!. We don’t have any specifics that we are sharing with this update, but know the team is looking at different ways this can be done. We will share more once we understand these options!”
Here is how Microsoft defines “planned” in relation to Edge features: “We have reviewed this feedback and have a plan to address it. However, we aren’t ready to share a target time frame just yet.”
The feature could make its way into the Edge browser, no ETA has been announced. Stay tuned for more updates.
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