There are basically 4 options to decide what to display on the page when Microsoft Edge starts up.
- Start Page – a combined page with Search option at the top and the MSN-powered News feed at the bottom.
- New tab page – a page that opens as a new tab. By default, it’s set as “Top sites” to display the frequently accessed websites right underneath of the search box.
- Previous pages – automatically opens any open tabs in the previous session, the same as “Continue where you left off” in Google Chrome.
- A specific page or pages – a way to set up multiple home pages.
How to set up?
Click the ellipsis symbol at the top right corner to open the drop-down menu, and click Settings. Then pick one of the 4 options under “Open Microsoft Edge with“.
To change the setting for New tabs, go the drop-down menu, and change the following 3 options.
- Top sites with suggested content
- Top sites
- A blank page
New tab – a blank page
New tab – top sites
New tab – top sites with suggested content
What option to use then?
Here is my personal take.
For new tabs, I am fine with “Top sites” option and don’t think I will need to follow up my news feeds every time when I open a new Tab.
Open with “Previous pages” is my go-to setting as I often have many tabs open and don’t want to lose track of them when Edge browser crashed or ended by accidentally.
My “open with” option is Open With Internet Explorer and I want to setup a home page. When I click on the “open With”, it opens Internet Explorer. How can I change this since I cannot uninstall Edge and start over??
Jim
Interesting…are you able to share a screenshot of what’s happening?
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