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dosi70
Copper Contributor
May 28, 2021
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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...
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    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 

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dftf-wip
Iron Contributor
Dec 03, 2021

UPDATE: in the recent Edge v96 Stable-Channel release, this same issue is happening again!  Does anyone at Microsoft ever actually test these things before releasing to the public-channel, as I'd think something so-obvious as your "start-up page" being broken should be obvious?

 

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    Joerg_Baermann
    Brass Contributor
    Dec 03, 2021
    Would be nice if there was an option to kill the new personal tab completely.
    I just want https://www.bing.com/ and not that fancy new crap page!

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