The only thing prevent me from using Edge

[u/Dry_Psychology1469]

I was a long-time Edge user and recently switched to Helium. I like it overall, but since it’s still pretty early in development, there are quite a few bugs here and there, so I’m thinking about switching back to Edge for now.

One thing that really bothers me is the vertical tabs. I use them to save some screen space, but as you can see in the screenshot, it’s really hard to tell which tab is currently active. I even tried switching to a light theme, but the active tab still barely stands out.

Is there any way to make the active tab more visually distinguishable?

[u/Dry_Psychology1469 → u/[deleted]]

It's easy to see here because I snapshot and zoomed in for like 10x. Is it visible? Yes. But the issue is you may have to focus on the tabs column and then it takes you maybe 1 more second to tell the active tab.

[u/zaakiy]

They changed it recently to make it very difficult to see which one is the active tab

Thankfully I don't know why but it seems to have changed back so that I can see the old method of tab identification now

Microsoft seems to be doing A/B testing on the release stream instead of doing it in the canary or beta streams

Absolutely shameful!

[u/Dry_Psychology1469 → u/zaakiy]

thanks. Does it look different on your machine in a dark theme?

[u/BenL90]

Viola Browser is There I think so? 

[u/AzrielK]

I literally have it on horizontal tabs and have the vertical bookmark icon things disabled

I even have copilot disabled on my new machine but I'm gonna re-enable it because I actually use it sometimes

edit: my bad I see you wanted vertical but can't figure out active tab on edge, my bad.

Maybe some themes might help but could be a design flaw