File Explorer tabs in Windows 11: An early review

File Explorer crashed for the first time in a very long time after I installed the update that added tabs to it. The tabs look nice, they function just as you would expect, like in a web browser. The contents of tabs are also often slow to load, like I’m using Safari on an iPhone and every time you look away from the screen, it reloads everything again. And then the crash.

I am left whelmed. Hopefully there’s some indexing or something going on, and a future update fixes the speed, without introducing a parade of other new bugs and glitches. But this is Windows 11, so my hope is…guarded.

Overall, thumbs sideways, for now.

UPDATE, October 22, 2022: I went a second day without any crashes, woo. But I also only had two tabs open, instead of 6-8.

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