One useful feature you get in Brave but not in Chrome is ‘vertical tabs’, which displays your tabs in a panel on the left-hand side of the browser rather than in a bar across the top. As well as requiring less mouse movement to click tabs, this stops them being squashed whenever you open new ones, so you can always view their full titles and browse them more easily.
Brave 1.63, released at the end of February, expands the feature by letting you place vertical tabs down the right-hand side of the browser, instead of the left, if you find that easier to access. You can then open new tabs by clicking the ‘New tab’ button at the bottom of the panel, or by pressing Ctrl+T.
To activate the new option, click Brave’s three-line menu button and select Settings then Appearance. Scroll down to the Tabs section and switch on ‘Use vertical tabs’ ( 1in our screenshot below). This will open the vertical-tabs panel on the left, but you can now choose ‘Show on the right’ 2to move it to the right.
To stop the vertical-tabs panel taking up too much space, either drag its edge to resize it or click the button in its top-right corner 3to reduce it to a narrow sidebar, which shows only the favicons for the sites in your tabs. Select the ‘Expand vertical tabs panel on mouseover when collapsed’ option to reveal your tabs by hovering your cursor over this bar, without needing to click anything.
EDGEAsk Copilot about the contents of screenshots
In Issue 679 (page 43), we wrote about the improved Screenshot feature in Edge 122, which lets you capture screen grabs of areas outside the browser. Microsoft has now added a screenshot function to its Copilot tool that lets you ask the AI assistant questions about the contents of your screenshots.
This allows you to get information about an image or section of text on a web page without having to look it up yourself, and is actually one of the more useful benefits of Copilot.
To try the new feature, open Copilot in Edge by clicking its button in the top-right corner, then click the ‘Add a screenshot’ button below the ‘Ask me anything’ box (see screenshot above) to launch the browser’s Screenshot tool. Drag the crosshairs over the content you want to learn more about, then click Done to capture the screenshot.
Once the image is added to the ‘Ask me anything’ box, type a question you want to ask about its subject and click the Send button. Copilot will then respond with a detaile
