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Google home page not opening on start up of Edge
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
(Replying a nearly a year after the initial question)
My PC suddenly developed this problem after running Edge with no difficulties. Nothing seemed to fix it. A few days later, I noticed that Windows Edge was mysteriously activated in the Windows 10 Startup list (Settings>Apps>Startup).
So I tried the following steps :-
Turned the slider button off (it's easily turned back on, so not irreversibly techie).
Restarted PC.
Opened Edge - initially received a "browser was turned off unexpectedly, do you want to return to the page?" type message.
Nope, I didn't. So I exited Edge.
Turned Edge back on. This time it started correctly on Google.
I am definitely no expert, but it seemed to be behaving as though Edge was being invisibly launched on Startup and already running in the background without any display. So when the user opens it manually, they aren't "launching" from scratch but just automatically creating a new tab with the MSN page featured as default. Possibly.
Whatever the reason, I hope this might help someone.
Yes, I had 12 instances of Microsoft Edge opening in the Start up list, so I am disabling it to see the effect. Also, I changed the Icon properties Link to show http://www.Google.co.uk That works OK.
None of the suggestions solved it, so I found an extension with the name Custom New Tab URL which allows me to set it exactly like I want it to be.
Should have been a native feature and not something that requires a 3rth party solution, but seems like MS doesn't really care about that either.
