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Elliot Kirk
Former Employee
Apr 22, 2019

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 n...
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BenjaVR
Copper Contributor
Apr 28, 2019

As already mentioned by some others: it would be nice to be able to select a region/language for the news feed on the "new tab page". Being from Europe, I'm not interested in all the US news. In the non-chromium Edge there was an easy option to select this region though.

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Drew1903
Silver Contributor
Apr 28, 2019

BenjaVR 

Ben,

Ok, if it is not possible for Europe, I might know why or will hazard a 'guess'.  Going by what I have here in Canada, I instinctively reckoned you would have Europe or specific Countries as Sections, you know what I mean.  Anyway, back to what I'll suggest. The Edge Dev & Canary are betas.  Edge is not. it is not uncommon, if not normal prescident, that whilst building something with betas they will be, at least for a time, English (United States) and US Region.  That's not to say that come Offical release, other languages & regions won't be supported.  When no longer beta won't be only English & only US.

NB: They use 'US' losely as it sort of means North America.  Although, Windows Insider Builds only JUST added a slew of languages to Dictation.  Regular Win10, STILL, will only do it with keyboard set to English (US).

Anyway, to re-enforce my point, here.  Taking another look 👀 at my own & more closely at something I noticed earlier... Yes, there is a Canada 'link' (marked) that does go to Canadian content, exclusively.    The My Feed (unmarkked) is a wide array of categories, but, including Canadaian features.  However, looking lower down at the selections, there is World News & US.  I think betas are like this , instead of going with 'universal' support because in doesn't make sense to sink heaps of time & effort into dressing a lab rat up with a slew of outfits.  Once it's work is done & it can go out in public, that's different.  Please, run with my lame analogy 😉 I suggest the lack out 'global' support is temporay and will not be the case by the time Edge C goes live  or non-beta.  Certainly, I could be wrong; there's a 1st time for everything (J/K 😉😁)  

An aside: There are a bunch of categories when one hits the More ellipsis ... (to the right of Money)





Cheers,
Drew


 

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