Everyone will agree that managing tabs is not easy. You start researching a topic, and before you know it, you have 15 tabs open and forget which tab contained the information you actually needed. This happens to me regularly, and I use several tricks, including tab groups, bookmarks, and browser extensions, to keep my tabs in check.
If you are one of the minority Microsoft Edge users, you will be happy to know that Microsoft has just solved this problem with its latest Edge update, and I wish Safari, my main browser, would add something like this, too.
What can tab intelligence do?
With the latest Edge update, Copilot can now read across all your open tabs to help you make decisions without the endless back-and-forth. Suppose you are planning a trip and have multiple tabs open to research the best places to visit, eateries to try, and activities to partake in.
With this latest update, you won’t have to hop between tabs to extract the information. You can just ask Copilot, and it will read across the tabs and find the information you need.
You don’t need to set anything up. Just tap or click the Copilot icon and ask your question. Copilot will pull context from everything you have open and give you a clear, consolidated answer.
It also goes a step further. With your permission, Copilot can reference your browsing history and past chats to deliver more relevant answers. So if you were researching something three days ago and picked it back up today, Copilot can connect those dots for you.
I want this on Safari, badly
This feature is genuinely useful, especially for people who research heavily before making a purchase or booking a trip. The problem is that I am an iPhone and Mac user, and this means I live in Safari.
Safari is a great browser, but Apple Intelligence has been slow to bring meaningful features to it. A tab intelligence feature that lets you ask Siri to compare information across open tabs would be an instant game-changer for me.
