Microsoft’s Edge browser could possibly be going large on rounded corners with a recent potential change noticed in (restricted) testing proper now.

Neowin (opens in new tab) stories that XenoPanther highlighted the potential change on Twitter, with a screenshot displaying Edge Canary (the earliest testing model) that includes rounded corners for the precise space of the browser displaying the online web page.

I’ve simply observed that rounded corners now exist for the realm across the seen web site pic.twitter.com/B0U3RCkb7eJanuary 13, 2023

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Even the sidebar to scroll down the online web page is rounded on the prime and backside, and that is very undoubtedly a glance that isn’t to everybody’s style (we’ll come again to that in a second).

Word that as XenoPanther observes, there are different Edge testers on the market – a few of whom chime in on the above Twitter thread – saying that they don’t see this modification.

So it could look like a tweak that’s solely been rolled out to a small quantity of testers (so-called A/B testing), and relying on how issues go, it might then be pushed out to extra people (nonetheless in testing, thoughts – to gauge additional response from a bigger userbase).

Evaluation: Consistency first – however is that this going too far?

There are some individuals who actually aren’t eager on the brand new rounded search for the central space the place the online web page is displayed in Edge. And the extra catch right here is that the rounding isn’t simply current when the browser is displayed in a window, but in addition when it’s made full-screen.

The latter does look fairly odd, we should agree, and off-putting when participating in displaying full-screen video for instance – additionally dropping you just a little little bit of display real-estate for displaying the video clip.

As one person put it to Microsoft on Twitter (expletive has been eliminated): “Cease giving every thing spherical corners!”

We get it, although – having adopted the spherical fairly than sharp edge as an general search for Home windows 11, Microsoft is simply conserving constant. Nevertheless, this seems like a step too far, possibly, significantly the full-screen facet of the rounding; however that is nonetheless early testing, and likely the concept will probably be refined but (or certainly ditched based mostly on suggestions, maybe).