Why you should pin tabs in Microsoft Edge

If you often visit the same few websites, it makes sense to pin them in your browser for easy access. Learn how to accomplish this and improve your internet experience with Microsoft Edge.

Why should you pin tabs?

Humans are creatures of habit. Our morning routines aren’t just limited to brushing our teeth and making coffee, we check our email, read the news, and scroll on social media. To save time and optimize browsing sessions, it makes sense to pin the websites we frequently revisit.

Of course, this doesn’t just apply to email and social media. On your work computer, you might want to pin the sites you use for client work or specific tools you need to accomplish daily tasks. If you’re a student, the sites you choose to pin might be more aligned with message boards you use for your classes and study tools.

Having these websites close at hand can make your online experience smoother, especially if you find that you constantly have too many tabs open. Not having to hunt for frequently visited websites can save you time and make you more productive, even if all you’re doing is updating your status on a social media profile.

How to pin tabs in Microsoft Edge

The process for pinning tabs in your Microsoft Edge browser is simple and allows you to browse more efficiently. To pin tabs on your device, simply follow these steps:

1. Open your Microsoft Edge browser.
2. Visit the website you’d like to pin to your browser.
3. Right click on the tab that you’d like to pin; a menu will pop up.
4. Select Pin at the bottom of the menu. The open tab will minimize to show only its icon and migrate to the left-hand side of the open browser window.
5. To unpin a tab, right click on a pinned tab and select Unpin.

This helpful feature allows you to keep frequently visited websites close at hand, without having to open them as tabs. You also have the option to pin websites directly to the Start Menu from Microsoft Edge so that you can access them even faster, which can be especially helpful if they’re the first pages you visit when you open your computer. If you’d like to pin a page to your Start Menu, the process is also straightforward:

1. Launch the Microsoft Edge browser.
2. Navigate to the website you’d like to pin.
3. Open the Menu by selecting the three horizontal dots (…).
4. Navigate to More tools at the bottom of the menu.
5. Choose Pin to start.

This process will save the URL of your choice to your computer’s Start Menu as an icon and allow you to open a pinned website without even having to launch your browser. Instead, open the Windows Start Menu and select the icon of the pinned website you’d like to access.

Pinned tabs can save you a significant amount of time, especially if you’re revisiting the same website throughout the day. They can become an important part of your workflow, school day, and general browsing sessions.

Try Microsoft Edge to experience all the useful features that can help boost your productivity and improve your computer’s performance.