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Microsoft now offers new Edge browser’s New Tab Page options in Settings page with more details that allow the user to customize the appearance of it too focus, inspirational or informational or to a custom design.

The new Microsoft Edge New Tab Page with Microsoft logo and Bing search box by default shows most visited sites from user browsing history, Bing homepage image, and news feed. You can bring a minimal or clean look to NTP by choosing Focused design, this hides the news, but still shows them when you scroll to bottom.

Tip: To completely remove news from New Tab Page visit about: flags and enable “use-edge-local-ntp” flag.


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The latest update to Edge Canary added New Tab Page options below “on Startup” section in Settings and provides more details about the customization options available for NTP.

For instance, the Focused setting, informs the user, choosing that enables search and most visited sites -” Just the basics-search and Quick links”

Inspirational Setting conveys choosing it brings “search, quick links, and a background picture to brighten up your day” to NTP.

By choosing Informational setting, New Tab Page will show search, news and weather and custom layout allow to choose from quick links, background picture, and news.

To see this change, in latest Edge Canary 76.0.183.0, click on Elipsis icon (…)  > Settings > New tab page.

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