
For this, click on the Start menu and from the left-sidebar, click on the gear icon. Step 1: Open the Windows Settings app on your computer. Remove Edge tabs from Windows task switcher If you are among those who don’t like the addition of Edge tabs in the task switcher, then here is a step-by-step guide to disable the feature on your Windows 10 computer. While the feature could come in handy for most users, it is not a feature for everyone. The following is an example of limiting 6 tabs and closing the oldest created tab if a 7th tab is created.In the latest October 2020 update for the Windows 10 operating system, Microsoft has introduced a new feature that shows the tabs of the Edge browser in the Alt + Tab task switcher window by default. Please learn more usage in the LimitBrowserTabs policy specification. The MaxTabs property is the max amount of tabs students are allowed to open, and the TabCloseStrategy property is to specify which tab to close to accommodate the new tab. Please note this policy has 2 properties, MaxTabs and TabCloseStrategy. Now add and set the policy LimitBrowserTabs to your policy configuration in Google Admin Console. How to set up?įirst of all, you shall have deployed Safe Doc and have understand how Safe Doc Configuration works. We do not recommend you allow incognito mode for students because many extensions are not loaded in incognito mode. The limit applies to tabs in all windows except incognito windows. The system performance is better preserved since the RAMs used by old tabs are recycled. So students always can only open and use at max 6 tabs at any time. In the following demonstration, Safe Doc automatically closes the oldest created tab whenever a 7th tab is created. If your school has yet to install Safe Doc, please get a 30 days trial first. It prevents your students from slowing down and destabilizing their school managed devices. This article explains how Safe Doc help you manage limiting the amount of Chrome tabs your students are allowed to open. Opening too many tabs also heavily degrades the performance of important tasks such as remote learning on Google Meet. Your students may accidentally crash other educational programs on the schools' managed Chromebooks by just opening 30+ Chrome tabs. The Chrome browser is notorious for its intensive memory usage over the years. This article is written for Google Workspace for Education Administrators.
