For this, you need to turn on the “Show Windows 11 visual effects in the title bar and toolbar (preview)” setting and restart the browser after that to apply changes. In case you missed the news, Edge allows adding the mica effect to its title and toolbars. Click on the Restart button to apply the changes to the Edge browserĪfter the restart, you can notice tabs being displayed with rounded corners.Toggle “ Use rounded corners for browser tabs (preview)” to enable.

Click on the 3-dot menu icon and select Settings.Search for appearance, in the highlighted results, for “ Show experimental appearance settings“, in the dropdown select Enabled.How to enable Rounded Corners for Tabs in Microsoft Edge browser on Windows 11 In the latest update, Edge Canary has brought rounded corners to tabs, here is how you can enable the feature right now. I even asked an unnatural question like 'Why are NFL refs so bad at officiating the game?' and Bing was smart enough to pull searches for 'NFL reds bas officiating' and 'NFL refs training.Recently we reported Microsoft is working to bring Windows 11 visual effects such as mica to the Edge browser toolbar and title bar. I asked questions like, 'What do I need to know about American football for the first time?' I got the basics of how the quarters work, scoring, and much more. As I was on my Twitter timeline waiting to tweet, Edge punched out some basics about the game for me, right in my browser. Being a person that knows next to nothing about the sport, I tried to use the Bing chat function built into Edge to increase my knowledge. I used the new Edge during Super Bowl weekend, a time when everyone seems to be united over American football. It's one of the most personal web browsers, ever, somehow feeling like a personal assistant. As crazy as it sounds, the new Microsoft Edge, infused with Bing and the new AI features, makes Edge a version of Cortana reborn. It sure does beat typing questions into the Chrome Omnibar and losing track of what you were working on!Īlright, who here remembers Cortana? It was supposed to be Microsoft's personal assistant, but it didn't fare well against Siri and Google Assistant. Heck, you can do all of this without leaving a webpage you're already on, which is huge for productivity. Click the Bing icon at the top left of the browser, and you'll get quick insights on the web pages you're on and the ability to compose, ask, or quickly generate text for emails and blog posts, even in different tones.Īnd that's all on top of the standard chat features, which help you ask more complex questions for things like learning about space telescopes - a feat many have said even Google's new AI struggles with.

Now, instead of being tucked away in the URL bar, Microsoft now put Bing's power front and center. I see Microsoft doing something similar with the newly AI-infused Bing on the new Edge, which nearly 1 million people have signed up for. Part of the reason Chrome became so popular when it first hit the scene was the Omnibar, which combined the URL and search bar into one and brought in a lot of Google search integration.

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