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How can I disable "Discover"`?
Hello,
- I can't disable it in the sidebar
- I can't remove the icon from the search-/icon bar.
- I can't remove it from the symbol bar
- I can't find any setting for this
So, how I can remove/disable "Discover"? (The purple +, with a small yellow +)?
- "- I can't disable it in the sidebar"
For now you can. Sidebar - Settings (Gear icon) - Show or hide feeds - disable. - Right click on your Microsoft Edge's icon on the Desktop, Start Menu and Taskbar. Choose Open File Location. Right click on the Edge icon and hit Properties. In the top box called Target, you should see this? "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe"
Put in your mouse cursor and move it to the end of this line where it says .exe"
Put a space at the end of this where it says .exe" and paste this: --disable-features=msUndersideButton
So now it should look like this: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe" --disable-features=msUndersideButton
Now I had to do this in the Start Menu for my Edge. When I clicked on Edge on my Taskbar and my desktop, it still had the B. I did the Start Menu one first and then did the Desktop one second. I then checked them and the B was gone. The one in my Taskbar still had the B on it. I deleted it and then put it back on by right clicking my Desktop Edge icon and clicking on Move to Taskbar. Now all three of these Edge browsers lost their B discover icon in the top right. - Guys, I swear, the only possibility is that there's at least one manager at ms who's paid by Google with the mission to turn edge into IE 4.0. There's no way in this world a single person at ms, or anywhere else, thought this was a good idea. Kudos, every penny is well spent there. Goodbye edge
- Yeah.... I don't know if Microsoft cares. But this was the last straw for me. Edge was one of the best browsers, and it was always a shocking thing to share. Yes. I use Edge, its actually better.
But they seem intent on constantly adding bloat, things we don't want, things enabled by default or with no other way to disable them. It was nice while it was new, but this latest forced addition made me switch.dishcandanty I wholeheartedly agree, I couldn't have been written this better. Totally on the same bandwagon as you. Two years ago I even uninstalled Opera b/c I didn't care about it anymore. Now, I'm just about to pull the trigger back.
It's not only about the horrible Bing button, it is so many features that have been added, some shoved (I heard something about round borders, glad I haven't seen it), or the sidebar. It's getting bloated. It's not slow but not sleek anymore. So, totally agree with the sentiment.
Microsoft Cares enough to have added the ability to disable Discover in Edge. They introduced this in Canary (daily builds), it has not made it's way to: Dev, Beta or General Availability
Edge Canary Version 113.0.1742.0
Settings/Sidebar/Discover
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Which is great, don't get me wrong. But this is how it should have been introduced. Forcing a feature, that still months later does have an generally available disable is* a dealbreaker for me.
I don't see anything about their pipeline changing, to where this won't happen again. Again for me, it just feels like this is just expected now with edge. Which I'd rather use another browser than deal with it.
- You can use option four or five in the tutorial below to remove the Bing Discover button from Microsoft Edge. Option four also disables the sidebar, but option five only disables the Bing Discover icon.
https://www.elevenforum.com/t/add-or-remove-sidebar-and-discover-bing-toolbar-icon-in-microsoft-edge.4247/ - Gave Edge a chance, wasted hours disabling annoying and unuseful features many times but this "Discover" and new search bar are limited.
Everything they release is just like forcing me to use them.
I will choose everything that Google develops if I can. - It's kind of crazy that they keep pushing "features" like this (and then later removing the flags to disable them even though it's clear people hate them). I switched to Edge back when it was in pre-release alpha as it was essentially a better version of Chrome. But since then patch after patch has just turned it into a modern Internet Explorer.
The annoying thing about it is, the reason it's gone downhill is because the feedback/dev forums got spammed by people who liked the Classic Edge browser and wanted Chromium Edge turning into it (this is why we got stupid I.E style flyouts to replace the downloads/history tabs). Microsoft seem to have forgotten that the whole reason they made Chromium Edge was because Classic Edge sucked and nobody wanted to use it lol. You can use option four or five in the tutorial below to remove the Bing Discover button from Microsoft Edge. Option four does also disable the sidebar.
https://www.elevenforum.com/t/add-or-remove-sidebar-and-discover-bing-toolbar-icon-in-microsoft-edge.4247/- This is obnoxious. Users should have the choice to disable this without policies or hacky command line workarounds. It's not even on brand with the rest of Edge or the existing buttons. Come on MS. Stop trying to shove Bing and MSN "tabloid" content down our throats.
- Finally, I found out that you can disable the entire sidebar feature along with this icon with MDM, policies, or registry settings, as long as someone else isn't managing your browser and mandating otherwise.
If you are okay with losing the sidebar entirely, see the following policy documentation for details.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#hubssidebarenabled- It works, thank you very much
- There is already the option to completely remove the sidebar in Edge, but nothing to remove the Discovery button
