Expanded Microsoft Edge settings no longer fit within a single display screen
Microsoft Edge has recently surpassed a significant milestone with the addition of a tab group shortcut, marking a step forward in enhancing the browsing experience for its users. However, when it comes to customizing the context (right-click) menu, the popular web browser, as well as many other Microsoft applications, still lacks native or built-in ways to achieve better UI consistency.
Currently, Microsoft Edge's context menu remains a fixed, static list of options without official support for user-driven reordering, hiding, or removing items. This has led to significant frustration among users who have expressed a desire for basic UI customization capabilities such as removing or hiding unused menu items, reordering frequently used actions to the top, and disabling unwanted features without resorting to obscure settings or registry hacks.
As of August 2025, Microsoft has yet to provide such customization features or official controls to clean up or tailor the Edge context menu. The demand for these capabilities exists but has not yet been publicly addressed by Microsoft.
For other Microsoft applications like Notepad on Windows 11, Microsoft has made improvements to the context menu design to enhance consistency and usability, but these changes do not extend to user customization. They represent internal design updates by Microsoft, not user-configurable options.
In the absence of native solutions, some third-party tools like Winaero Tweaker claim the ability to customize Windows UI elements, including context menus, taskbar, and animations. However, these customizations are unofficial and may not provide fine-grained control specifically for Microsoft Edge’s right-click menu.
If you are seeking better UI consistency and control over the right-click menus in Microsoft Edge and other Microsoft applications, the current options are limited to lobbying Microsoft for native features or exploring third-party UI customization tools cautiously.
References:
- Microsoft Community Hub discussion on Edge right-click menu frustrations, August 2025
- Winaero Tweaker tool overview for Windows UI customization, August 2025
- Microsoft Edge Insider Community Hub, August 2025
- Windows 11 Notepad right-click menu UI refresh, August 2025
- Additional Microsoft Edge Insider discussions, August 2025
- Despite Microsoft Edge's advancements in enhancing the browsing experience, users continue to express frustration with the fixed context menu, seeking native customization features like reordering, hiding, or removing items.
- While Microsoft has improved context menu designs for some applications like Windows 11's Notepad, these changes do not include user-configurable options, leaving a gap in customization possibilities.
- In the absence of native solutions, third-party tools, such as Winaero Tweaker, offer UI customization for Windows elements, but their control over Microsoft Edge's right-click menu may not be as fine-grained.
- As Microsoft has yet to publicly address the demand for customization features in Edge's context menu, users resorted to lobbying the company for such native capabilities.
- As of August 2025, there were ongoing discussions in Microsoft Edge Insider Community Hub and other forums regarding right-click menu customization and the lack of granular control in Microsoft applications.
