The feature is already being tested in the Canary build

Jul 31, 2020 05:38 GMT  ·  By

There’s a lot going on in the Microsoft Edge world these days. Microsoft, for example, has been super-busy in the last few hours to deal with a bug causing the browser to crash when users typed something in the address bar, all because of the suggestions that are displayed in the app.

And as it turns out, when not fixing critical issues, the dev team is hard at work on bringing new functionality to the browser, as @Leopeva64 has recently discovered another new cool thing coming to Edge.

It’s a tab preview feature, something that we’ve already seen in Google Chrome and which is now being prepared for Microsoft Edge too.

The latest version of the Canary build, which is 86.0.593.0, comes with the very first public release of this tab preview feature, allowing users to try it out before it makes its way to the rest of the Edge versions.

Already in Canary

Interestingly enough, this looks like a slightly different implementation of the tab previews, and @Leopeva64, who has previously discovered other new features coming to desktop browsers, spotted some differences.

“It's clear that this is the Microsoft's implementation because in Chrome the card with the title of the page is at the top, currently the feature has some bugs but that is to be expected,” the Twitter user explains in a message posted a few hours ago.

As to when this feature is supposed to make its way to the production builds of Microsoft Edge is something that is too early to anticipate, but the good news is that anyone can try it out right now in Canary. Some bugs do exist, that’s true, but this is nothing surprising given it’s just the first public test of the new feature and it’s the Canary channel, the whole thing kind of makes sense.