You would forget that there was a time that Microsoft Edge was in fact the web browser who opened when you accidentally clicked on a link that had not failed in Chrome or Firefox.
But something shifted in 2020 when Microsoft switched the digital drive from Edge to Chromium, the technology that the Google Chrome -Browser and others like.
Edge colander suddenly his uncomfortable skin and emerged like a real competent – non -pleasant – waving experience.
And if you use Edge during your working day, a number of wonderfully useful traces of time are built into the core. Here are those I find most excellent.
Split screen: 2 for the price of one
Do you want to browse the contents of your heart while keep an eye on your e -mail? Try a neat small edge function called “Split Screen”.
Click on the three small dots in the top right corner and select this menu option, and the browser is split into two panels and you can open different sites. It even treats multiple tabs for each panel.
It is perfect forever on e-mail, social media or everything you need to constantly monitor without disturbing your main workflow. It is as if you have a mini-browser in your browser and is especially useful if you work from a laptop without several monitors to connect.
Collections: Your digital ideas board
If you often notice that you are investigating something, opens a few dozen tabs and you realize that you have to visit them again later. . . Then you and I are relatives, unorganized spirits.
Yes, bookmarks exist, but they are intended as fairly permanent and they are a bit awkward for quick ideas for the idea. ‘Collections’, on the other hand, behave as digital project managers to refer later.
Click on the Three-Dot menu and choose collections to get started. You can drag and drop pieces of text in a theme collection on the left, images, even pieces of text.
Plan a trip? Research into a new gadget? Build a shopping list? Collections keep it all neat and easily accessible. Imagine: real organization!
Performance settings: Nobody likes a Laggy browser
Even the best browser can be stuck the fleshy system when you have a Gazillion tabs open and a dozen extensions that are executed, and you stream a 4K resolution video.
The “Performance” settings of Edge is a quiet hero. It is intended to save CPU, RAM and battery by storing system sources, including a handy function that puts inactive tabs to sleep. It does not close them, but simply pauses them, which makes it clear to the resources for things you actively work on.
You can engage and adjust different efficiency functions in Settings> System and Performance. Your CPU fan will thank you.
Web capture: Screenshots made easily made
If you ever feel in the state of the world, know that it has never been a better, easier era to take screenshots. So that’s there.
What once concerned a delicate dance of print screen, sticking in paint, cropping and then realizing that you have missed a pixel is now as simple as clicking right -clicking in the open space of a webpage, selecting “Screenshot” and grabbing what you need.
You can take a specific area, the full page or exactly what you see in the browser. You can also annotate directly on the recording.
Shop functions: Save some money, save some time
I am usually not one for built -in shopping assistants, but Edge’s are surprisingly unobtrusive and really helpful.
If you are on a site that sells things, search for a blue price card icon to appear on the right side of the address bar.
Click on it and the function can automatically find coupons, compare prices, show you historical price trends and you can follow the item and be warned when it goes for sale. It’s like having a miniature, non -judicial personal shopper in your browser.
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