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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 I have custom setting - with just image of the day turned on - I love the Bing wallpapers. The only thing is that the search bar across the image spoils it, so it would be good to have another customisation toggle to turn it on or off. As a matter of fact, I almost never use it - I always search from the address bar.
I'm fine with the arrangement for the news feed - it's handy to be able to either click on the headings at the bottom, or just scroll down, and just a CTRL+Home to get rid of it and return to the top is quick and simple.
Cheers!
- I suspect that if M'soft got rid of the search bar, people would have an absolute fit. I can see it now: "You took away my search bar," or "You broke Edge!" and, "How the **** am I supposed to search, now??" In the long run, it's probably easier to just leave it there, because people expect it.
Personally I like insperational. I like not having the news stuffed in my face (so to speak) and instead having a pleasant photo to look at. I like having the choice of whether or not to look at the news by scrolling down. Elliot Kirk
Dennis5mileElliot Kirk We should be able to totally get rid of news from the new tab. Hiding News behind a scroll is not good enough for me.
KoshyG I managed to hide the news by enabling "Enable using the Microsoft Edge local NTP" in edge://flags.
- Thanks! I hate the news feed!!
Elliot Kirk Is there any way to add custom background instead of using picture from the bing?
vineydhiman
Grab or 'make' a web page have the photo or whatever you want. Then, assign that page to be the New tab. Just a thought 💭
Cheers,
Drew- Thanks for the suggestion! I'll file a feedback via the smiley face on behalf so we can make sure your feedback doesn't get lost.
Elliot Kirk I basically like the new tab page. Since you asked, I'd like an option that disables the news feed even on scroll. Also, I'd like to be able to rearrange the order of quick link tiles by dragging.
- Good feedback on ability to remove news content all together. I'll be sure to pass it on to our new tab experience team.
Elliot Kirk I am a huge fan of the Inspirational setup. It strikes a great balance between looking good and being useful.
rjansen85, thanks for the feedback and glad to hear you're enjoying the inspirational layout!
