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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/9\/1\/23333091\/microsoft-edge-sidebar-widgets-search-email-recipes<\/a>
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Microsoft has added a new sidebar to its Edge browser<\/a> with buttons that let you see information about a site, check your email, access Microsoft Office, and even strip the essential elements of a recipe out of an overly long post (via Windows Central<\/em><\/a>). The new feature seems to build on the \u201cSearch in sidebar\u201d function added to Edge in 2020<\/a>, but it adds even more multitasking abilities.<\/p>\n

The sidebar includes some small but useful panes, like the one that lets you search the web and quickly read articles, or the one that includes a variety of widgets, such as a calculator, dictionary, internet speed test, and unit convertor. Some of the panes are more fully featured; the Outlook one, for example, lets you read and send emails, as well as see your calendar (as long as you\u2019re logged into your Microsoft account, of course). <\/p>\n

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Getting your email and calendar in a sidebar is actually pretty useful.<\/em><\/figcaption>Gif: Microsoft<\/cite><\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, the Microsoft Office pane isn\u2019t as useful. It does give you quick shortcuts to recent documents, as well as to apps like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, but clicking on them just opens them in a new tab. While that could help some people work a tiny bit faster, I was personally hoping I\u2019d be able to open a mini spreadsheet next to whatever site I was browsing. The games sidebar is similar \u2014 it\u2019s just shortcuts to web games.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s the \u201cDiscover\u201d sidebar pane, which promises to add \u201ccontextually relevant info for any page.\u201d From my testing, that can include information about a news site that ranks how reliable and accurate it is and shows info on what countries people visit it from. It also does its best to add context for specific articles on those sites, or for other things you\u2019re reading, usually with information from Wikipedia (funnily enough, that\u2019s sometimes the case even when you\u2019re reading a Wikipedia article). <\/p>\n

Perhaps one of the Discover pane\u2019s most useful tricks, though, is when you\u2019re on a recipe site, where the sidebar will automatically pull out the list of ingredients, potentially saving you from having to scroll through paragraphs about the writer\u2019s favorite singer \u2014 though I will note that you may still have to do that if you want to read the actual instructions on what to do with those ingredients.<\/p>\n

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