Google Chrome still dominates the desktop browser market share with 69.37%, while Microsoft Edge comes in at a distant second with 12.75%, according to StatCounter. Microsoft has been ramping up its efforts to improve Edge's user experience, but it still struggles with adoption.

Feature parity might have been a contributing factor before, but Google Chrome is finally getting vertical tabs, something that has already existed in competing browsers, like Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox, for a while now.

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Many users still seem to prefer Chrome over Edge, citing "faster" performance and its extensive ecosystem of extensions and integrations with Google services (even though most are compatible with both browsers).

Elsewhere, Microsoft also brought back the vertical Taskbar to Windows 11 as part of its broader campaign to improve user sentiment around the operating system in 2026, which, if I'm being honest, should've never been scrapped in the first place!

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