With the latest Microsoft update, we got the all-new Chromium-based Edge browser offering a simple, uncomplicated, and responsive approach. However, it retains its look from the legacy version of Edge in terms of showing the top and most visited websites, top site apps that are ready to download from the Store, My News Feed with recommended new content (which can also be personalized now), and also the weather and money widgets.
However, if you want to make changes to the default set up, it allows you to customize the look, or open the new tab as a blank page.
How to Customize the Microsoft Edge New Tab Page of the New Browser
1. Open Microsoft Edge
2. Copy and paste the address given below to address bar.
edge://settings/onStartup
3. Now, in the left menu, click On startup
4. Make sure Open a new tab is selected as an option.
5. Click on New Tab page in left menu.
6. Now, in the right side click on Customize button.
7. Now, click on custom.
8. Turn off show quick links, show greetings and background.
9. Select Content OFF in content section
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Searcher says
This method does not really make the new page a truly blank page. Following these given settings, Edge still displays a Microsoft logo with a search bar; not a completely blank page. So, this article is a bit misleading.
Taylor says
Nope. There’s still a big ugly search bar. This isn’t a blank page.
Tom Sanders says
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unimpressed says
That’s not a blank page. That’s a page with a Microsoft logo and a search bar that, in my experience, uses Bing rather than the search engine configured as default, even when the non-default search engines have been removed from the list configured for Edge.
benny justice says
Is there an updated instruction this no longer works
bob says
This no longer works as the settings page in Edge is completely different now