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dosi70
Copper Contributor
May 28, 2021

Google home page not opening on start up of Edge

Hey, new to the forums, for some reason as of yesterday, when I start up Edge, I get a Microsoft home page even though I have Google.com as my home page and start up page. how do i stop this from hap...
  • dftf-wip's avatar
    dftf-wip
    May 29, 2021

    dosi70 There are two workarounds you can try:

     

    Workaround 1: Change your search-provider to Bing

     

    In the Address Bar, go to edge://settings/searchEngines and then click the "..." at the end of the Bing option and choose "Make default".  Close all Edge windows.  Next time you open a new Edge window, your startup-page should be working again.

     

    Workaround 2: Add the site(s) into the shortcut for Edge (applies to Windows users only)

     

    Find a shortcut to the Edge browser (for example, on your desktop), then right-click it and choose "Properties".  In the Target box, right at the end (after msedge.exe") leave a single space, and then type the web-address you want Edge to start with.  Click OK, and use that shortcut now to launch Edge.

     

    NOTE: if you want Edge to load more-than one site when it starts, just leave a single space between each website address, for example:

    msedge.exe" https://www.google.co.uk https://www.bbc.co.uk 

JoeD99's avatar
JoeD99
Copper Contributor
May 30, 2021
Same issue...definitely a bug...seeing reports of this all over the web.
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    PeloCampo
    Copper Contributor
    May 30, 2021

    JoeD99 - Along with that issue, you can't open a second instance of Edge unless you use Bing - it just opens a new tab in the existing instance. Yeah, a huge bug. Wonder how this update passed QA?

    • davyg57's avatar
      davyg57
      Copper Contributor
      May 30, 2021

      I had the exact same problem after the update.... what I did was to delete all traces of my Google home page and also deleted BING search engine from within the Edge settings... and then I re-added google as my homepage...I then shut down Edge and then relaunched it.... et viola... all was working as it should...:-) 

      • PeloCampo's avatar
        PeloCampo
        Copper Contributor
        May 30, 2021
        I uninstalled the "preview" quality update from May28 and got Edge functionality restored. Homepages and new instances now working normally while having Google as my search engine. Interestingly, after uninstalling the update, I checked for updates again and it doesn't show. Is that normal behavior for an uninstalled update or did Microsoft see all the issues and pulled the update to fix things?

        Frankly, the "best solution" doesn't really fix the problem for those who detest Bing. Sure, you could append your homepage to the shortcut, but that doesn't solve the inability to launch a second instance. At best, they are good work-arounds until Microsoft gets its act together. But uninstalling the offending update, which was only a preview, is much simpler.

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