New user to Edge thoughts.
I've been a Chrome user for more than a decade and love the way its ecosystem works between windows and android. But, I am growing tire of Google's political censoring and its tracking policy that i...
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johnl12 Hello, Glad to see you're using the new microsoft edge, and
Welcome to the Microsoft edge (insider) community!
I would like to comment some of your points:
- You can change your new tab page with extensions on the microsoft edge addons store (Microsoft Edge Addons)
- You can choose special pages to open when you start the browser (google for example, or yahoo or others) in settings > start, home, new tab > add your own pages.
- The microphone on new tab only works using bing as search engine, but maybe there are extensions to use voice search with google... (you can send feedback about your "sad" issue with three dots menu > help and feedbcak > send feedback)
- For the fourth point, you should also send feedback to the dev team
And finally, as you said, you have a lot of things to discover ! (You can enable some options with edge://flags in the search bar on the top, but they are flags, with maybe some problems)
Many moons ago Bill Gates was once asked why he doesn't document all the features of Windows. He stated he wanted the users to have the
'joy of discovery." I say BS, his programmers added a lot of tools to make what they need to do easier and just didn't remove them. I am not complaining as a sysadmin those tools are great once you find them.
