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New Tab Page Walkthrough
Microsoft Edge’s new tab experience is designed to be a clean, delightful experience that helps you find what you need on the web and get you where you want to go next. Microsoft Edge starts with a new tab, and you can create more new tabs by clicking the “+” (next to existing tabs).
We’d love to hear what you like about our new tab experience, what doesn’t work for you, and anything more you’d like to see in this experience.
Default layout for new tabs
The default new tab layout uses a daily background wallpaper sourced from Bing’s image of the day collection. This experience also offers the standard in-page search box as well as quick link tiles .
Celebrating the image as the hero of this experience, we’ve created space across the middle for the picture to shine through.
In this layout, News is at your fingertips, just a scroll away To bring it up, you can either click the category headers along the bottom or scroll the page.
In the upper right is a quick way for you to choose various layouts for the page.
Settings flyout
To see more layout choices, explore the settings flyout in the upper right corner of the page.
Focused. Keep it simple.
Focused layout has the fewest visual elements, giving you just the basics: a search box & quick link tiles.
Inspirational. Daily background wallpaper.
This is our default layout, introduced above. Here’s a run through the core elements on the page:
- Daily background wallpaper from Bing.
- Image caption and interactive museum card for more information about each picture. Clicking the museum card takes you to more information about the image.
- A rich repository of news is also at your fingertips, just a scroll away, and can be accessed anytime by scrolling down.
Informational. Stay informed with news.
Informational layout balances news with search & recent sites. In this layout, the rich repository of news powered by Microsoft News is present to help you stay current on the topics you care about.
- Personalized news: click the “Personalize” link to set the topics that will appear in your feed
- We program trusted news from the world’s best journalists in more than 140 countries and 28 languages, keeping you plugged into the events of the day and information relevant to your individual lives.
- Microsoft News keeps people informed across the web, phone and PC, using our long-tested approach of curating news via publishing partnerships, human editors, and AI.
- We work with more than a thousand premium publishers and more than 3,000 brands in all major global markets – like USA Today, The New York Times, FOX News, The Washington Post, and many more – to aggregate the best news, videos, photos and other content and deliver it, for free, to people all over the world.
Other layout customizations
You can explore additional new tab page layout configurations by turning individual toggles on and off.
- Toggling “Show most visited sites” turns on/off the quick link tiles
- Toggling “Image of the day” turns on/off the background wallpaper
- Toggling “Show feeds” moves the news content above/below the visible “fold” of the page
What do you think?
We would love to hear from you. What’s your favorite new tab layout? What additional new tab customization options do you want to have? Anything else you’d like to see changed on new tabs?
Thank you for trying out the new Microsoft Edge and leave your comments below!
106 Replies
Elliot Kirk the bing new tab extension from chrome web store no longer works in edge(works in chrome). it wont load because microsoft disabled it. i do not want to see a search bar in the center of my daily new tab and if you do not fix it,i will not be using edge. and i should not be forced to use ai either. it worked really well until it was disabled.
I know this might be slighly off-topic, but it involves the New Tab page. It would be fantastic if the "Hide Stories from [Website/Publisher]" that adds websites to a block list were actually prevented from showing up in the news feed. As it stands right now, I have numerous blocked sources in a giant list and many of them still show up in my newsfeed. It doesn't matter how many times I tell MSN not to show me horoscope articles and clickbait junk. On the same note, when flagging an ad (such as "Tinitus?? Try this! (with a picture of someone shoving something in their ear they shouldn't)) as "not interested", "already seen" or inappropriate, we just get a "Thanks for the feedback!" message, then it disappears and displays the same ad again. It doesn't feel like anyone cares about the user experience with regard to their customization of their news feed or ads shown in their face, really. It gives the impression that it's not a blocking mechanism at all but another way to gather data about a user's interests. I don't really think that's the case, I believe it's a bug or something.
On the note of ads, I'd rather pay a small monthly fee if I could just get them out of my new tab/start pages and keep just the MSN community stuff and a (working) custom news feed.
I've tried using the reporting/feedback mechanisms in Edge and haven't seen any updates, nor received any replies even though I have provided the option to be contacted.
Thanks for anything you do WRT these things.
It's really important to me to be able to customize the new tab page and remove all content (news, etc.) because otherwise I get distracted when right when I've created a new tab to get a task done and I forget what I've come to the web for.
Elliot Kirk After using Edge Insider (Dev) from the first day, I do like the new tab page - I tend to have the inspirational setting - but frequently, find, that as I've idly scrolled down the various new articles, and opened them in new tabs - that I'd like to 'reset' the tab page - but find a lot of mouse wheel scrolling required to get back to the top - can we have a button appear next the the gear button that is 'scroll to top' ?
Many thanks
RichardJNB
Hi Richard,
This will do it for you. You will have it for or on all pages. The button can scroll to top or bottom. There are different button (function) choices available. Personally, I have had it, used it for a long time & really, appreciate it! You can find it https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/insider-addons/detail/dobeplcigkjlbajngcgnndecohjkjmia.
Are you in New Brunswick? Hence the NB? I was born there.
Cheers,
Drew
Why is it not possible to open a new tab (and startup for that matter) with a completely blank page?
At least on startup you can select about:blank, but then you have to delete the content of the address bar before you type an url or query.
msa4store
Sorry, don't know your name, but, it IS possible to have a blank page.
I don't know when or if the default New tab page will be all that people want or prefer. And, sure, one can say it is sad to have to use an extension to have what one wants. Some want a feed, some don't, some want a blank page, heaps variations, some possible, some aren't, at least now right now. HOWEVER, if an extension is not viewed as something terrible, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/infinite-dashboard-new-ta/meffljleomgifbbcffejnmhjagncfpbd will give or do all anyone would want and more (cool choices) they hadn't, even, imagined. I urge y'all to take time to look at it. You might well like it. I know I sure do!
Cheers,
Drew
Elliot Kirk
Oh my you can , even (almost 😉) hear the birds singing as you walk through this New Tab Page 😁... (It's, actually, a gif & the brook is flowing and the breeze is gently blowing. Ah that sweet aroma of the forest)
Cheers,
Drew- Bring back the EDGE looks on the final release....remove the rounded edges.
Bob_j5 I completely agree. I loved the clean, no-nonsense appearance of old Edge. I'm loving the work to date on Edge C , but there's nothing about it that says to me that I'm using Microsoft Edge. I obviously wouldn't sacrifice functionality and stability for appearance (otherwise I would have continued with old Edge), but old Edge had a strong sense of identity that was markedly different from the generic chromium (i.e. rounded) look of Firefox and Google Chrome.
I assume that it wouldn't be a problem to have the old Edge look on Edge C by the time it comes out testing Elliot Kirk ?
Pete_FFC
Yes, Pete & another part, maybe a small example is, sure, one may add extensions, but, we prefer OUR stuff, such as Mouse Gestures. We like what OUR store offers.
If we liked & wanted Chrome & Google we'd, already, be using them.
Many of us like panels or flyouts such that we are still or stay immersed in & able to see the page or site in use, prefer that approach not, changing to a different page.
Yes, there are Edge Features that must be kept (Set aside, Add notes, Share, Pin to taskbar, et al) but, it's, also, a matter of approach (to things), the MO & style needing to be respected, as well.
Cheers,
Drew
Scott_HinckleyMicrosoft
I'm using the informational setup, but find it very difficult to quickly navigate the feed due to there not being any up/down scroll bar. for that format.
What I'd like most:
- More spots for frequently visited pages. I'd like at least a second row (three is a good limit).
- Turn off the search bar completely, as an option. If we're committed to the search bar, can it mirror the search provider we picked in the address bar search?
- Turn off news completely, as an option. This might even increase performance on lower-end machines and, for me, it also de-clutters the screen.
A lot of great requests here, MS. Love making the frequent pages = more like Live Tiles & allowing us to re-order them or edit their names.
Elliot Kirk Excellent work so far. Very pleased with the look and feel.
I notice that the daily Bing Home page picture is supposed to be available as part of the new Tab page.
When will this start happening?Eternal_Optimist
Just thought I'd toss this out there... One can use Bing.com as the New tab. It has more and nicer, more appealing things & possibilities one can to with it, too (IMO). It's, certainly, my preference over the default New page. Here ⬇ is a Window Snip of it
Cheers,
Drew
