By pressing Alt & Tab together, you can now see all of your active tabs at once. This is something that Chrome and Firefox users have taken for granted for years, and we’re not sure why Microsoft is so late to the party, but we’re glad they’ve finally made it. For times when you have ten or more tabs open, you may not actually want to see all of them at once, but Windows has a fix for that. Enter your settings menu and configure the command to show you only the three or five tabs you’ve looked at most recently if that would suit you better. When you’re flitting between the same few tabs rapidly, this is a time and labor saver.
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There Are Huge Browser Privacy Upgrades
Microsoft’s default browser is no longer the runt of the internet litter. Internet Explorer might have died the death that its long history of failure and poor design deserved, but Microsoft Edge is a different animal – and a very safe one. Google memorably issued a security warning to all Microsoft Edge users last year – much to Microsoft’s displeasure – about perceived security flaws, but Microsoft always maintained the risks were overstated. Now they’ve been eliminated altogether.
The cleverest thing Microsoft has done here makes it very difficult for Google to criticize them without also criticizing themselves. In what we can only describe as an example of the bare-faced cheek, Microsoft used Chromium – the open-source version of the Google Chrome browser – as a foundation for the redesigned Edge. When Google decided to make its flagship browser open-source, the company wouldn’t have imagined in a million years that its biggest rival would take them up on the offer, but here we are. Edge now has all the best bits of Chrome with a few Microsoft-built enhancements. Website compatibility has never been better, and the new tracking blocker means that nobody – not even Facebook – can track your movements around the internet if you don’t want them to.
