In a spontaneous moment of curiosity today, I found myself looking into Microsoft Edge, with its neat new tricks and features.
Microsoft Edge Split Screen and Vertical Tab Bar
One cool thing I discovered is Edge’s split screen feature. By activating it via edge://flags#edge-split-screen, you can manage tabs as panels within the same window by pressing ctrl + shift + 2. The shortcut feels a bit clunky and strains the wrist, but it’s a neat feature. Pair this with the vertical tab bar, and you’ve got a pretty clean browsing session.
However, this split screen isn’t as handy when you’re bouncing between tasks on other applications, since the panes—thus the text—will be squeezed.
For instance, when multitasking between applications like Brave and my terminal, which I lock to the left and right of my screen respectively, the split screen feature loses its charm. I regularly switch between these two using win + 2 for Brave and win + 3 for my terminal and then revert to full screen with Windows Snap (win + arrow). But once in full screen mode, it might be a good addition.
Integrated AI Tools in Edge
One of the features that may appeal to a lot of people is the integration of several AI tools.
There is the “new Bing”, the integration of ChatGPT, of course, which you can easily access via ctrl + shift + .. But that’s not all. Edge also has text-to-speech, a handy math problem solver, and you can even access DALL-E 2 via the Image Creator.