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Why give up the vertical Activity Bar?

Open kuankuan2007 opened this issue 2 months ago • 3 comments

I think it is very practical and was also a major highlight in the past. Why should we remove it?

kuankuan2007 avatar Oct 17 '25 14:10 kuankuan2007

A big fan of vertical Activity Bar as well as vertical Tabs who started using since day 1 feels super sad seeing vertical Activity Bar support getting discontinued.

chawyehsu avatar Nov 04 '25 10:11 chawyehsu

Agree with this post. Why remove it?

danj-zen avatar Nov 05 '25 10:11 danj-zen

I am also a user of the vertical tabs for me feel amazing in my workflow, like the browser tabs that I use in vertical mode too, I don't understand why removing this option

ShyroeJB avatar Nov 06 '25 13:11 ShyroeJB

the vertical activity bar is the main reason why I use Edge for web dev, I guess I'll have to completely bin off edge once it's removed. Hope this decision is walked back on.

MrScottyTay avatar Nov 10 '25 11:11 MrScottyTay

Thank you for opening the Issue. I also don't see a reason to remove it. The feature is already implemented, people can switch at ease, why remove the option?

vitorbonamigosassi avatar Nov 12 '25 11:11 vitorbonamigosassi

I'm quite disappointed about this. What is the point of removing such an awesome feature? This is one of the standout features of the edge dev tools. Hopefully, they reconsider this.

Superior126 avatar Nov 15 '25 00:11 Superior126

Do we have any communication at all on why? Like, is there another upcoming feature that needs this change? It's honestly one of the main reasons why I use Edge for developing.

fabbemannen avatar Nov 18 '25 15:11 fabbemannen