How to enable or disable Tab Preview feature in Chrome or Edge browser

The Edge (Chromium) browser from Microsoft is quite fast. Its ‘Tab Preview‘ feature works when you hover your mouse pointer over an inactive tab. It shows a thumbnail of the web page which is open in another tab. In short, it gives a peek-view of the current tab you are pointing to in the browser. If you want to enable or disable this feature, here’s how to proceed. We will also show you how to enable or disable the Tab Hover Card Image feature in the Chrome browser.

Enable or Disable Tab preview on hover in Microsoft Edge

The feature is enabled by default. To turn Show tab preview on hover ‘Off’ you’ll have to make changes to the browser:

1. Open Edge Settings
2. Click on Appearance on the left side
3. Scroll down till you see Show tab preview on hover
4. Turn this setting OFF using the toggle
5. Restart Edge.
6. Go to Tab Hover cards entry in the experimental flag
7. Switch position from default to Enabled

Enable or disable Tab Hover Cards using Edge Flag

Launch Edge browser, open a new tab and copy-paste the following in the address bar – edge://flags/#tab-hover-cards.

Next, hit ‘Enter‘ key.

The highlighted flag will appear below the ‘Search flags‘ bar.

Now, simply go to the drop-down menu of the entry and change the value from ‘Default‘ to ‘Enabled‘.

Before closing the experimental flag, hit the ‘Restart‘ button to allow the changes to take effect.

Following this change, when you open the browser again and hover over the tabs, you’ll get a preview of the page’s content. It will bear the site’s name, alongside a brief description of the site.

At any point in time, if you feel to disable this feature, simply go back to the flag and set the value to ‘Disabled‘. Make sure to restart the browser to effect the changes made.

Enable or Disable Tab Preview feature in Chrome

Since the new Edge is built with Chromium, enabling features on Microsoft Edge is similar to the process seen in Google Chrome.

The procedure to Enable or Disable Tab Hover Cards Preview in Google Chrome is as follows:

Launch Chrome browser, type the following in the address bar and hit Enter:

chrome://flags/#tab-hover-cards

From the drop-down menu, select:

• Select Enabled to enable the feature
• Select Disabled to disable this feature.

TIP: If you don’t want to do all this, use our Ultimate Windows Tweaker to disable Tab Previews with a click.

Disable Tab Preview feature in Chrome

To disable the feature in Chrome, launch Chrome, paste chrome://settings/appearance in the address bar and hit Enter.

Here turn off Show images on tab hover preview cards using the toggle.

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