How to Turn on and Use Vertical Tabs in Microsoft Edge?

Microsoft will add a new feature vertical tabs to its web browser Microsoft Edge. It is good news if you are using a modern widescreen display. When this feature is enabled, all the opened tabs’ icons will be displayed on the left side of the browser. You can disable or enable vertical tabs to switch the tabs display modes between horizontal and vertical tabs.

This new feature is not added to the new Windows 10 20H2 that was released on October 27, 2020. But it is available in the Dev and Canary versions of Microsoft Edge. You can go to the Microsoft Edge Insider Channels download center to get these two versions.

How to enable and use vertical tabs in Microsoft Edge? We will show the steps in this post.

How to Turn on Vertical Tabs in Edge?

If you are using the Dev and Canary version versions of Edge, you can follow these steps to turn on the vertical tabs feature.

1. Open Microsoft Edge.
2. Click the three-dot menu and then select Settings.
3. Click Appearance from the left navigation.
4. Turn on the button for Show vertical tabs button under Customize toolbar. Later, if you don’t want to use this feature, you can turn off the button.

How to Use Vertical Tabs in Edge?

After you enable vertical tabs in Edge, you can feel free to use this feature. Here are some things you can try:

Access the vertical tab sidebar

You can click the Turn on vertical tabs button (like a window) at the top left side of Edge to open the vertical tab sidebar.

The appearance of the vertical tabs sidebar

The opened tabs will show on the left side of Edge. The top side will only show the current page icon you open.

By default, the sidebar is wide. But you can click the Collapse pane arrow to narrow the sidebar.

Then, when you move your mouse to the narrowed sidebar, it will automatically extend, allowing you to close tabs, switch between tabs, and open a new tab.

If you still want to use the wide sidebar, you can click the Pin pane button to show it.

Close the vertical sidebar

If you want to close the vertical sidebar and use the horizontal tabs again, you can click the Turn off vertical tabs button to close it.

You can choose to use horizontal tabs sidebar or vertical tabs sidebar according to your requirements.

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Bottom Line

Now, you should know how to turn on vertical tabs in Microsoft Edge and how to use it. This new feature is likely to be added to a stable version in Edge later in 2020 or in the early time of 2021. At that time, you can easily switch between horizontal tabs sidebar and vertical tabs sidebar.