14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft Edge is a continuously evolving browser, and one of the biggest new features coming to the app is support for vertical tabs.
If you haven’t used Vivaldi already, you really should, as it’s one of the few apps right now coming with vertical tabs and it should help you figure out why this is such a cool feature for everybody.
Microsoft too knows that vertical tabs can make the browsing experience overall a lot more convenient, especially on large wide screens, so the company is currently offering this feature in the testing builds of Edge, with the goal of bringing it to the stable channel at some point in the future.
But in the meantime, Microsoft is working on further polishing it, so the Canary build has recently been updated with a feature that should have been there from the very beginning: support for resizing the tab bar, something that makes perfect sense given the UI would now adapt to the needs of each user much easier.
No ETA for vertical tabs just yet
But as noted by GHacks, the feature is still in its early days right now, so it’ll be interesting to see if it launches together with vertical tabs when the stable build of Edge gets it.
Microsoft originally announced vertical tabs in March 2020, but the company never provided an ETA as to when this feature could go live in the production builds of the browser.
“If you are like me when you research online, you find yourself with dozens of tabs open at any given time. When that happens, there’s less space for me to see which tab is which. I find myself losing track or I’ll accidentally close a tab as a result. Utterly frustrating as that is usually exactly the one page I needed,” Liat Ben-Zur, Corporate Vice President, said almost a year ago.