You can also open a new window by left-clicking the options button and clicking Open in New Window, or you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+N. You can also open up a new tab in a new InPrivate Window by clicking the options button or you can use the keyboard Ctrl+⇧ Shift+N.
Refresh the tab. This will refresh the window - but won’t clear the cache. Context-click the tab, and click refresh or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+R when the browser is focused on the window you’d like to refresh. Duplicate the tab. Need two tabs starting at the same website. Context-click the tab and click “Duplicate tab” or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+⇧ Shift+K. Pin the tab. Need to stash the tabs page away, yet don’t want to lose the current webpage on screen? Try pinning it. Context-click and select “Pin tab” Mute the tab. If your site provides Windows 10/11 push notifications to the action center, you can stop these persistent notifications and mute notifications until you close the tab! Context-click the tab and click “Mute tab” or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+M. Add a tab to a new group. There’s a brand new feature to group tabs together but won’t close them. Context-click the tab then click “Add tab to new group”, however, if you have tab-groups already opened, this will be seen as “Add tab to group” and will provide groups already begun. Tab groups require a tab color - which will be seen when you begin the tab group - and a tab name. You can later pin/unpin the group, add a page to this group, ungroup the tabs or close the entire group, or move the entire group to a new window - assuming you have more than one tab open when the group is begun. Try sending the tab/page to other Edge-provided devices if there are more than 2 devices on your Microsoft account. Click “Send page to your devices. " If you have two or more tabs open, you can also make a secondary tab part of its own window. Context-click that tab and click “Move tab to new window”.
With vertical tabs, you can minimize the browser to just the tabs and no title bar at the top of the page (through the search), and return to horizontal tabs just click the same button and click “Turn off vertical tabs”.
To reopen a closed tab back farther than the last-closed tab (even from another browsing session on another day), you may have to use the keyboard shortcut more than once or by clicking the history button (Ctrl+H and clicking “Recently closed”. If you closed a tab on another Edge-controlled device, open your history page and click “Tabs from other devices” and let it check for these closed tabs/windows/pages. Don’t try to context-click a tab then click “Reopen closed tab” (in vertical tabs view) or through context-clicking the area to the right of the + button. Instead, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+⇧ Shift+T, because there’s a bug that opens up Edge to your Settings page controlling this setting’s options if you context-click to this option at this time.
If you closed down the only tab in your browser, you’ll have closed down your browser - unless you have another browser window of tabs open. Closing down windows on one device, won’t close down tabs and windows on another - not even if the windows are displaying the same thing on two different devices.
