{"id":438500,"date":"2022-03-23T13:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=438500"},"modified":"2022-03-23T13:02:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T11:02:23","slug":"windows-11-file-explorer-is-getting-tabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/438500-windows-11-file-explorer-is-getting-tabs.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 11 File Explorer is getting tabs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft has started rolling out tabs for file explorer in the latest Windows 11 Developer Build.<\/p>\n

The much-requested feature is now available for testing to Dev Channel Insiders in Windows 11 Dev build 22579.100.<\/p>\n

The addition comes despite Microsoft stating the update would only serve to test the servicing pipeline and won’t come with any changes over the previous build.<\/p>\n

The tabs appear to be enabled by default and allow users to jump between directories or folders within the same window, similar to how a browser lets users navigate between websites.<\/p>\n

Windows Central previously reported that<\/strong><\/a> Microsoft hid the feature in an early preview build, and Windows Insider Rafael Rivera<\/strong><\/a> first uncovered it.<\/p>\n

The screenshot below shows the feature on Rivera’s system, with tabs for Quick Access, a hard drive, and the Downloads folder shown above the toolbar.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Apple’s MacOS and various Linux distributions have had tabs in their file browsers for several years, while the Windows community has been pleading with Microsoft to roll out similar functionality.<\/p>\n

The company previously had a go at a multi-app tabs feature with Windows 10’s Sets, which it started testing in early 2018.<\/p>\n

Sets allowed switching between multiple apps and websites within the same window, among other functions.<\/p>\n

However, it was pulled from preview builds only a few weeks after rollout, with Microsoft stating it was reworking the feature internally and would relaunch it in the future.<\/p>\n

This did not happen, likely because the Sets development relied heavily on integration with the old version of the Edge browser, which has since been supplanted by a revamped Edge running on Google’s Chromium engine.<\/p>\n

Now read: Microsoft testing ads in Windows 11<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Windows 11 is getting tabs in File Explorer, allowing for easier navigation between folders within a single window. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":438510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[63172,123,70233],"class_list":["post-438500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-file-explorer","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438538,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438500\/revisions\/438538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}