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Option to completely remove Microsoft News Feed
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.
Update, so I downloaded the latest Canary and can now remove favorites from the new tab bar, AWESOME! But Bing search still persists even if I change search in settings to another provider. Build seems to run more smoothly than the weekly build as well. Still no bookmarks menu like the old Edge had, just the atrocious chromium one.
I use an extension called New Tab Redirect that allows me to specify what page I want to display as my new tab page. This might work for you.
Bill
Deleted Thanks, yeah I've seen some pretty nice new tab replacement extensions. My fear is that they have access to all my browsing info, although I suppose I should be worried about MS having that info as well. The reason I would like to stick with the MS new tab page is I like the news feed, but through the forced Bing search and the bright white page I'm forced to ditch Microsoft completeley.
BTW for what it's worth, I actually like the News Feed. I would only like 2 things. 1) The news content only takes up the center, with huge gutters on either side. The feed needs to be stretched to either side to fully fill the browser screen. 2) Remove whatever code is blocking extensions like Dark Reader from darkening the webpage, that blinding bright white doesn't sit well with my sleeping wife.