Rounded Tabs and Mica Make Their Way to Microsoft Edge on Windows 11

Currently available only in the Canary channel

Microsoft Edge is a browser that is continuously evolving, and as far as Windows 11 users are concerned, the application is feeling at home on Microsoft’s operating system.

And this makes perfect sense given it’s a Microsoft app on a Microsoft operating system, but the software giant is also hard at work on improving Edge in such a way that it would perfectly align with Windows 11.

The most recent test that’s currently running in the Canary channel of Microsoft Edge includes rounded tabs and Mica for the browser.

As spotted by FireCube and shared on Twitter, the new visual improvements are not enabled by default in the latest Edge Canary build, so users need to activate them manually if they want to try them out.

As a matter of fact, these updates not yet live for users by default is an indication that the work on Mica and the rounded tabs in Microsoft Edge is still in the early days. If everything goes according to the plan, we should see the visual facelift make the way to Edge Canary, then to the Dev builds, and eventually to beta and stable channels.

How to try them out today

If you want to try out the new update in the latest Edge Canary build, you must first make sure you are running the most recent build in this channel.

If you do, then launch the browser and type “edge://flags” in the address bar. This will allow you to see the experimental features that are currently bundled with the browser but not enabled by default.

Next, you need to search for “Show experimental appearance settings,” and when you find this entry, make sure it’s enabled. Once you do this, new options called “Show Windows 11 visual effects” and “Use rounded corners for browser tabs” should show up in the appearance menu in Settings.