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Option to completely remove Microsoft News Feed
jhoff80Nice, that works. Now if we only had an option to remove the favorites bar from the new tab page and switch the search from Bing to whatever we like !
You can do those as well.
On the new tab page right click the fav bar to disable it.
You can also set the search engine in the settings under privacy and services>address bar>manages search engines.
_shellprompt1515Neither of those work. You can right click the favorites bar and uncheck it, but it still shows up on the new tab page. Changing the search engine also does not affect the search engine on the new tab page which is always Bing.
Whatever _shellprompt1515 suggested you works fine. There are few things which you need to keep in mind:
In the Favorite bar context menu, if you select NEVER it will hide the favorite bar completely from browser and if you select ONLY ON NEW TAB, it will only show favorite bar when you open a new tab.
Now its your call how you want to manage the favorite bar.
You can also make use of CTRL + SHIFT + B keyboard combination to hide favorite bar quickly.
Still, if you have doubt, check out this blog post for step by step instructions:
https://geekermag.com/hide-show-favorite-bar-in-edge/
I hope you find this solution useful.
I must be on an older version, does this auto update or am I supposed to download new builds as they come out? I'm on the weekly release (Version 74.1.96.24 (Official build) dev (64-bit) and it says I'm on the latest release. In my setup I only get an option to allow or disallow favorites, there is no menu for Always/Never/Only on new tabs. When on a new tab page and checking the favorites tab off the favorites tab actually shrinks a tiny bit, so it's changing something, but it persists. Same with search, if I change it in settings it still stays as Bing in the new tab page.
I'm going to download a fresh browser to see if I just need to update.
