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MissyQ's avatar
MissyQ
Former Employee
Mar 13, 2020

Creating a Beautiful, Informative and Productive New Tab Experience

We’ve been working very closely with teams across a variety of Microsoft services to deliver a comprehensive new tab page experience that is beautiful, fast, reliable and productive.   We’ve in...
HotCakeX's avatar
HotCakeX
MVP
Mar 13, 2020

Thank you for the updatesMissyQ 

These sound great!
being able to set custom image for New tab page and change the search engine.


also I have more feedbacks for the New Tab Page:

  1. Please let us add More tiles for the NTP, currently we can only add 7 tiles in the New tab page. add another row under it so we can add 14 sites/tiles.
  2. Edge should not change the New tab page sites/tiles that user manually sets. there needs to be an option so we can "PIN" the tiles we add and they Don't get changed with most visited sites (based on user's browsing behavior).
  3. also sync the New tab page tiles with the New tab page tiles on Edge mobile (Android/IOS).
  4. Let us Change the image (favicon) shown on New Tab page Tiles.

 

  • TanvirArjel's avatar
    TanvirArjel
    Brass Contributor
    Apr 07, 2020

    MissyQ  Adding item to 8th tiles was one of my most wanted feature. I have send feedback for several times for this. Thank a lot to Microsoft Edge Team ❤❤

     

    HotCakeX You missed another important point. Along with renaming the NTP tiles there should be an option for editing the link/url of the tiles too like chrome and other browsers.

    • HotCakeX's avatar
      HotCakeX
      MVP
      Apr 07, 2020
      Of course yes, I mean now you can delete and create a new tile with the correct URL but I agree with you
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Mar 19, 2020

    HotCakeX 

     

    1) Definitely! Lets get some ideas for new tab page fromFirefox/Vivaldi browsers

    2) Agree!

    3) Agree! Not just for mobilemusers but sync option for other instances logged in with same sync account

    4) I do not think so, there should be some universal "edge" favicon for a new tab

     

    Moreover - add a custom search provider

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        Mar 19, 2020

        HotCakeX 

         

        I know, but not for the new tab page 🙂

  • Jacques Van de Meerssche's avatar
    Jacques Van de Meerssche
    Iron Contributor
    Mar 13, 2020

    -For some reason I have 8 pinned tiles instead of 7 on my NTP HotCakeX . But I fully agree that there should be a second row of tiles. Currently on Version 82.0.453.0 but has been that way forever.

    -As to your second point, I presume that you are talking here about Edge/Android since the manually pinned tiles in Edge/Chromium are not automatically changed to most visited sites. Again, I fully agree, also about the sync.

    • HotCakeX's avatar
      HotCakeX
      MVP
      Mar 13, 2020
      I have 8 tiles too but the last one is a plus + sign.
      • Jacques Van de Meerssche's avatar
        Jacques Van de Meerssche
        Iron Contributor
        Mar 13, 2020

        Mine are fully populated HotCakeX . By the way, it seems that the green update badge/indicator stopped working again prior to latest update.

         

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