Edge’s Copilot makes multi-tab browsing smarter
Microsoft Edge is getting a helpful upgrade: Copilot can now pull information from across your open tabs. That means you can ask Copilot to summarize several articles you have open, compare products across shopping pages, or pull together notes from multiple sources — all without manually switching between tabs or copying text.
The company says the update will roll out across desktop and mobile, and emphasizes user choice: you can "select which experiences you want or leave off the ones you don't." That keeps the experience convenient while giving people control over how much the AI accesses during a session.
Practical productivity gains include faster research, easier price and feature comparisons, and quicker synthesis of information for writing or planning. For students, shoppers, and professionals who routinely juggle many pages, Copilot’s ability to see and summarize tab content can shave minutes or hours off repetitive work.
Microsoft is also retiring its older Copilot Mode, folding many of its beneficial tab-reading capabilities into the main Copilot experience. The change simplifies the toolset and makes these cross-tab features more broadly available to Edge users.
- Save time by getting summaries of multiple open articles in one prompt.
- Compare products or prices without switching back and forth between tabs.
- Keep control with toggles to enable or disable the tab-reading experiences you don’t want.