Find any Edge window or tab from the keyboard

What Flick does with Edge

You don't have to be in Edge to find one of its tabs. From any app, hold ⌥, tap Tab and start typing: matching Edge tabs appear among your windows, each with Edge's icon, its title and its site, and the tabs of all your Edge windows are searched at once. Let go, and Flick switches Edge to that tab and brings its window forward, on whichever Space it's on (browser tabs).

• Vertical or horizontal. Flick asks Edge for its tabs instead of reading them off the screen, so it finds them whichever way Edge lays them out.
• Addresses count. Flick keeps each tab's site and path, so a word from the address finds a tab whose title doesn't help.
• The list stays tidy. Outside search, an Edge window keeps one row, with a count when it has several tabs. Press → before you type to see its tabs, and ← to go back.

Set it up

1. Turn on Microsoft Edge

   In Flick's Settings › Browser Tabs, turn on Microsoft Edge. Browser tabs come with a license.

2. Say yes to macOS

   macOS asks once whether Flick may control Microsoft Edge. If the note under Edge says “Flick needs your permission to control Microsoft Edge.”, click Allow… to see the question again. If it says Flick isn't allowed, click Open Privacy Settings and turn on Microsoft Edge under Flick. Step by step: allow browser control.

InPrivate windows

Flick leaves InPrivate windows out by default: it doesn't ask Edge for the titles or addresses of their tabs. The windows themselves still get rows in your list, like any window. To search InPrivate tabs as well, turn on Include private windows in Settings › Browser Tabs. That one setting covers every browser you've turned on.

Edge's own tab search draws the line differently. Microsoft says it lists only tabs from the same browsing mode, so InPrivate tabs are found from an InPrivate window and regular tabs from a regular one (Microsoft). With Include private windows on, Flick finds both kinds in one search.

Edge's own tab tools

• Search tabs. The Search tabs icon, which Microsoft places in the top-left corner of the window, finds tabs across all your open Edge windows and also lists recently closed ones (Microsoft). Flick only knows the tabs that are open, so for one you just closed, Edge's search is the one to use.
• Vertical tabs. Turn them on or off from the same Search tabs menu. Microsoft lists them for macOS as well as Windows (Microsoft).
• Keys. ⌘1 to ⌘8 switch to a tab and ⌘9 to the last one; ⇧⌘N opens an InPrivate window (Edge's Mac shortcuts).

Flick's part is what lives outside Edge: Edge's tabs, other browsers' tabs and every app's windows, in one list. If you also use Chrome, Flick and Chrome covers Chrome Beta and incognito windows.

Edge Beta, Dev and Canary

Microsoft offers three preview channels, Beta, Dev and Canary, which install alongside the released Edge (Microsoft Edge Insider). Flick reads tabs only from the released Microsoft Edge. It recognizes each browser by its exact app rather than its name, so a preview channel's tabs aren't searched, though its windows are listed and found by title like any other app's.

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