With the Windows 10 Creators Update, Microsoft Edge improves its support for tab previews, which provide thumbnails of each open web page for quicker navigation.
Note: This tip is derived from the Windows 10 Field Guide, which is now being updated for the Windows 10 Creators Update.
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As you may know, Edge provides nice visual previews for tabs so you can quickly find exactly the tab you need. To see the preview for a particular tab, just mouse-over that tab and a thumbnail image of the underlying site will pop-up right under the tab.
You can also display all of the open tabs as previews. To do so, select the “Show tab previews” button—which resembles a caret—found to the right of the “New tab” button.
When you do, a new tab previews area is display, providing a visual representation of each open web page.
To close this view, select the “Hide tab previews” button (the caret).