If you’ve come to anticipate a sure habits from Windows’ Alt + Tab shortcut—that it’ll cycle via all open home windows—you might be thrown for a loop when utilizing Microsoft Edge as your browser. Inexplicably, Alt + Tab presents you with not simply each open program, but in addition each open tab inside the browser.

I hate it.

Somewhere deep within the annals of Microsoft historical past exists a purpose for this resolution. There will need to have been focus teams and suggestions that confirmed that folk would love this function. In truth, among the many billions of Windows customers on the market, many individuals in all probability adore the inclusion of their final 5 energetic tabs when sifting via open home windows. You don’t must first convey the browser to the forefront, then discover the specified tab. You can leap straight to it.

But visible noise slows me down. I attempt to preserve my variety of open home windows to a minimal, in any other case hopping over to the one I need within the activity switcher is cumbersome. And this beneficial Microsoft Edge function provides undesirable visible muddle for my eyes to have to choose via. (So sadly, it’s not useful to me.)

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Thankfully, you’ll be able to disable this setting—although you received’t do that inside Microsoft Edge. You should as a substitute head to your Windows settings. Under Multitasking, you’ll see an choice for Alt + Tab. Choose the Open home windows solely setting. Now if you use the duty switcher, you’ll have the basic Windows expertise of solely open apps and File Explorer home windows to cycle via.

If you’ve gotten the exact opposite desire to mine, you can even as a substitute embrace chaos and violence by way of the Open home windows and all Edge tabs choice. That means sure, all of your Edge tabs change into a part of the Alt + Tab insanity. You have 44 Edge tabs open? Well, now you’ve gotten 44 additions to your activity switcher lineup.

The excellent news is that Microsoft really offers us a selection, together with the power to step down the variety of Edge tabs that seem. I’m unsure if I may preserve utilizing Edge in any other case, even with it already being considered one of my secondary browsers.