Microsoft just made Edge's Copilot a lot more useful for anyone drowning in browser tabs. The AI can now scan across all your open tabs when you ask it questions, instead of just looking at one page at a time.
This means you can ask Copilot to compare products across multiple shopping tabs, summarize a bunch of articles you've been meaning to read, or pull specific info from that mess of research tabs you've accumulated. Microsoft says you can toggle which features you want on or off.
The update replaces something called Copilot Mode, which had similar tab-reading abilities plus some agentic features like booking reservations for you. Those booking capabilities are apparently getting folded into the main Copilot experience.
For anyone using AI tools for research or comparison shopping, this is a genuine time saver. Instead of manually switching between tabs or copying info into ChatGPT, you can just ask Edge's built-in AI to do the synthesis work.
The key question is how well it actually works across complex tab sets. If it can reliably pull accurate info from 10+ tabs without hallucinating details, this becomes a legitimately useful productivity feature rather than just a demo-worthy gimmick.
