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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...
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
Just wondering if you have tried to open a second Edge window after opening the first, right click on icon in task bar and select "Microsoft Edge" to start second window. I am finding the second window does not open with default start pages. I also had the initial window not opening, but your fix seems to have corrected that. Thanks for the post. Also finding that Chrome does the same.
Opening a second Edge or Chrome instance only opens the Microsoft or Google Default page...