Forum Discussion
New Tab Page Walkthrough
Elliot Kirk I'm liking the new tab page so far, but do have some of the same suggestions above:
1). Ability to turn off the search bar (why is it needed when the omnibox functions as the search box?).
2). Ability to turn off the news feed entirely for those times extra focus is required.
and to add, unless I missed it:
3). Ability to change location of the news feed for those who live/travel abroad. I'd like to be able to click the settings gear icon and change it which is an option that was available on the old Edge new tab page.
Those seem to be the basics that are missing for me at the moment.
As a bonus: 4). The ability to set quick launch pages in place of "top sites." The UI is nice, but top sites is distracting whereas a minimal favorites-esque set up there would be more useful.
A couple of observations:
- Re: News at the bottom of the NTB - I followed the suggestion of @KoshyG (thanks!) "hide the news by enabling "Enable using the Microsoft Edge local NTP" in edge://flags" and it looks much tidier. It's such as shame to have these great Bing images obscured by clutter.
- If you have the NTP in full-screen, then the search bar on the page makes sense, as the omnibox isn't visible.
- My second point raises the following questions:
- Is it possible to automatically open Edge C in full-screen mode?
- When in full-screen, the ability to hover the mouse at the top to see other open tabs and be able to switch to them while remaining in full-screen would be awesome. Especially on a smaller screen, you could really make the most of your screen real estate while keeping maximum productivity if you need to switch between tabs. Same applies to having the taskbar come into view when hovering the mouse at the bottom.