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Introducing Workspaces in Edge | New feature
Workspaces
you can create multiple Workspaces in Edge, have tabs in each of them, and when you close all Edge windows and open Edge again, you still have your w...
Need my Workspaces back please!!!!
It is gone on Version 97.0.1069.0 (Official build) dev (64-bit).
Why remove one of the best features???? It is just great! One for Personal, One for Work, one for Finances, etc... Open/Close with a signle click.
It is gone on Version 97.0.1069.0 (Official build) dev (64-bit).
Why remove one of the best features???? It is just great! One for Personal, One for Work, one for Finances, etc... Open/Close with a signle click.
I totally agreed with you, you can leave your message in thread https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/dev-channel-update-to-97-0-1072-8-is-live/m-p/2978378
As of 27 December 2021...
Workspaces are still working in the production version:
Version 96.0.1054.62 (Official build) (64-bit)
Time will tell if they disappear for everyone when production shifts over to the 97.x branch.
JimGrisham HotCakeX Here we are, EIGHT months later, and I have NEVER had Workspaces. The thing is, in my use of Edge (all four flavors), I would've been an excellent test bed for that feature. It gets a bit frustrating that M'soft seems to forget about features and they languish in cyber-limbo.
If you'd like to play with the feature, you could try creating new browser profiles... perhaps by installing Edge in a VM.
(I believe that someone previously stated that the user assignment for these 'controlled-roll-out' features gets chosen at random during/after installation?)
I don't suspect that Microsoft has forgotten about this; rather, the team is likely holding it back* until they are more confident in the final form in which it will appear. Let's give them time (yes, perhaps even another year or more) to do user studies and get it right the first time.
Perhaps counter-intuitively: the longer it takes to be released, the more likely it will be retained as a long-term feature.
* If I were the project manager (and I'm most definately not), I wouldn't let this sort of thing get released until a) it was much more tested and polished and b) all of the other Edge fires were put out. (We're still in the midst of a pandemic, after all.)
Update 2022-01-12 (since the reply / quick reply buttons are disabled for me right now, for a reason that I can't extract from DevTools):
In Edge 96 or earlier, if one had launched Edge with the appropriate command-line flags and then later launched Edge using the normal icon, any workspace windows the user had created just appeared as normal windows.
If Edge was closed and re-opened with the correct command-line flags, the workspace windows that were previous closed would appear and be classified by the correct workspace name/color.
After the v97 update, this behavior changed, and any workspace windows that weren't actually open prior to the update appear to have been lost!
These windows may return after downgrading to Edge 96... but in the meantime: if anyone has been using Workspaces and has not yet updated to v97, make sure you back up those windows before the update occurs on your PC.
