The internet is an incredible tool for society, it allows us to carry out actions of all kinds just by being connected by means of a device that is compatible with the internet, from communicating through social networks with anyone on the planet, to carry out our studies through education platforms and even work on the internet and generate money.
All this is possible thanks to tools such as computers, smartphones and the internet, these have allowed us to evolve and these tools have also evolved with us.
Since about 20 years ago that they joined us, they have not stopped modernizing, bringing us today both applications and web browser services, including Microsoft Edge.
Microsoft Edge browser
Microsoft Edge is a browser patented by Microsoft Windows, this is the successor to the great Internet Explorer, since before Edge, this was the browser that every Windows system had, it was the default, however, Microsoft wanted to put itself in the browser market and gave Internet Explorer a 180 ° turn, giving us a new version known as Microsoft Edge.
This browser was released with the new Windows system called Windows 10, for its users the creation of the new browser was good, since it has a very pleasant interface for the user and with new functions, among them we can find functions from using Cortana with the browser until you enable the high-performance GPU in Microsoft Edge.
From having the aforementioned functions as well as having the standard functions that every browser has such as its incognito mode, screen capture tools, an integrated administrator to save your passwords and even a secret menu, among all these stands out one in particular which It is the vertical tabs that this browser has, then we will explain how they are activated.
How to activate vertical tabs in Microsoft Edge?
This is a very interesting function of the Microsoft Edge browser, with any browser if you open many tabs, it is difficult to know how they are located, since the more tabs are open, the smaller they become, with Microsoft Edge we have a function and that is that we can make these tabs are vertical and do not oversaturate that area of the browser, allowing you to see everything better, you can activate them like this:
- Within our Microsoft Edge browser we will go to the options menu and enter the Settings section.
- Once in the Settings, among all the options we will see a called Appearance, we will enter there.
- In Appearance we will see all the options that we can do in the browser, such as changing its design, style and others, among these we will see the function of the vertical tabs button, we will activate it and that’s it.
- In a case that this option does not appear available to you, it is because then you have outdated the browser, what we will do is update Microsoft Edge to its latest version and return to this configuration section.
And so in this way you can activate the vertical tabs of Microsoft Edge, this will be located on the left side of our browser, these tabs will be seen from top to bottom and we can see the full name of each of them, in addition this bar also It gives us the option to hide the bar to maintain the comfort and aesthetic aspect of it while performing certain functions, so you can block it:
How to use the vertical tab bar in Microsoft Edge?
- Once the vertical tab bar is activated, in the upper left part of our browser we will see something new, it is a square icon, if we press it we will see that the vertical tab bar will display.
- In the form of icons we will see the pages that we have open in Microsoft Edge.
- If we click on each of these, we can view the page, its title or even if we make a sustained click we can move them from place in the vertical tab bar.
- And just like the horizontal tab bar that we used to have, we can also anchor the pages that we usually search, this to save time, above we will have an icon similar to a pushpin, in which we can anchor, also if we want to hide the tab bar, giving click again on the square icon we will hide it.
