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dosi70
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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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Pete Stevens
Copper Contributor
Apr 15, 2022
Just experienced this issue following the March 2022 updates.
It stopped both the Edge and Chrome browser start-up tabs appearing.

This fixed it for me:
three dots
settings
start, home and new tabs
scroll down to the bottom and turn off Preload the new tab page for a faster experience
restart PC/Laptop

Both Edge and Chrome now opening start pages.......

Edge: Version 100.0.1185.39 (Official build) (64-bit)
Chrome: Version 100.0.4896.88 (Official Build) (64-bit)
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mubbly4871
Copper Contributor
Apr 15, 2022

Pete Stevens 

Hello, and thank you for this.

 

This looked like a good and nicely practical solution, so I thought I'd try it.

 

In the process I noticed my New Tab Preload setting was already "Off", so perhaps this was the reason things worked.

 

However, interestingly, whatever permutation I run now - Edge on or off in Startup and New Tab Preload on or off (plus necessary Restarts), Google is loading as the homepage perfectly. This is baffling but at least in the right way.

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