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Please Add Option In Settings To Hide Sidebar Automatically
Hi,
At least in my humble opinion it would be great to have the option available to be able to hide the sidebar automatically instead of only having the current two options that are available, to hide or display. I haven't checked yet in the 'experimental flags' area to see if an flag for doing this might in fact be available, but by having the sidebar showing it takes up valuable viewing area when I'm trying to view a webpage.
Thanks,
David
- Really need the ability to REMOVE (not switch off) this clutter from browser entirely - the new stupid icon on the top right switches it on if hovered over - even if you set Sidebar to OFF
This is a classic example of useless BLOATWARE, I thought Microsoft had learnt about that.To completely remove the sidebar (including the annoying 'Discover' button) you can use a group policy called 'HubsSidebarEnabled'.
Either in the Group Policy Editor by setting'Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/HubsSidebarEnabled' to 'Disabled'
Or directly in the registry by adding the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\
DWORD (32-bit): HubsSidebarEnabled
Value: 0
If the above doesn't work, add the registry key to the CURRENT_USER path instead (I assume this just affects users who have only Edge Canary installed):
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\
DWORD (32-bit): HubsSidebarEnabled
Value: 0
- Hi Davy,
I have checked edge://flags and don't see an option to enable this. I recommend sending feedback to the engineers, asking for this functionality to be added in a future release. To send feedback, click on the ellipsis(..) top right > Help and feedback > Send feedback.Hi Jeremiah-V,
Thanks so much for taking the time to respond back to me, I'm thinking that I'll take your advice and send some kind of feedback to the engineering dept., my motto is you will never know until you try..it's all about communication isn't it.
David
