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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 +)?
- They seem intent on pushing us back to Chrome :-(.
AnotherUsername Microsoft always screw things like this. It’s a big ugly button out of nowhere that no-one asked for.
if you want to put that at least give me an option to disable or I will default to another browser
- In my opinion this button is very out of place, and even hovering on it will bring up the sidebar. We compromised to the extension button issue, and now we have this. I haven't been this frustrated with Edge for a while.
--disable-features flag will work for now if Edge is explicitly launched with that flag. However, there are many scenarios where the browser is launched by 3rd party apps that won't pass the flag. And it can be removed at any time. - And today on Dev 111.0.1633.0 not only can I still not remove this ridiculous button (that's where the menu ellipses has always been no less - very classy, that), now I have a battery button show up. Because for some reason that's what I need in addition the battery icon that's already part of the OS 😞
<sigh> - 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- There is already the option to completely remove the sidebar in Edge, but nothing to remove the Discovery button
- It works, thank you very much
- 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.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
 
- With the latest version of Canary, no "Show Discover" option, just for the sidebar
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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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. - 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.
