[Tip] Hide or Remove Title Bar in Vertical Tabs Mode in Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge web browser comes with a very useful feature called “Vertical Tabs“. With the help of this feature, users can move the tab bar from top to the left-side pane in the browser.

Usually all web browsers display all opened tabs at the top in the built-in tab bar but Microsoft Edge allows users to remove the tabs from top and show them in form of a left sidebar.

Following screenshot shows Vertical Tabs feature live in action in Microsoft Edge web browser:

Vertical Tabs feature is a great addition specially for wide screen users. But there is a glitch or bug in the Vertical Tabs feature which is the annoying title bar which still displays at the top in the browser window. Because of the extra unnecessary title bar showing at the top, the purpose of Vertical Tabs fails as the user doesn’t get any extra free space in the browser window. The whole space which was previously occupied by the Tab bar, is now automatically grabbed by the title bar.

Many users complained and requested Microsoft to remove the title bar from Vertical Tabs mode and finally Microsoft has listened to the requests.

Newer versions of Microsoft Edge (version 91 and later) allow users to hide or remove title bar in Vertical Tabs mode. The feature is disabled by default and interested users are required to modify a hidden preference/flag to enable it.

Following screenshot shows title bar removed from Vertical Tabs mode in Microsoft Edge:

If you also use Vertical Tabs mode and want to get rid of the unnecessary title bar from the top in Microsoft Edge, following steps will help you:

1. Open Microsoft Edge web browser and type edge://flags/ in address bar and press Enter. It’ll open the advanced configuration or experiments page.

2. Now type vertical in the “Search flags” box.

It’ll directly go to following option:

3. To hide or remove the title bar in Vertical Tabs mode, set the above mentioned option to Enabled using the drop-down box.

4. Microsoft Edge will ask you to restart the browser. Click on “Restart” button to restart Microsoft Edge.

That’s it. Now the title bar will no longer display in Vertical Tabs mode.

PS: In future, if you decide to re-enable title bar in Vertical Tabs mode, set the above mentioned preference/flag to Default in edge://flags page.

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