The view size changes each time you click the icon. In my case I'm going to use Google's Website, then click on save:Īnd that's it! Once you click on new tab in the browser, the given website will appear automatically without needing to do anything else.To make the view smaller, click the minus symbol ( –) repeatedly until the percentage number matches your needs. Then open the extension in the extensions menu of the browser, this will launch the setup page where you can configure the URL of the website that should be opened everytime the user clicks on New tab. Here you need to enable the extension toggling the radio button. This will launch the following window in a new tab: This will launch a tiny dialog where you will have the option to click on Manage extensions. Enable and configure New Tab ExtensionĪccess the configuration of Edge Browser and look for the Extensions area at the top right corner of the window: That's it! Thanks for your patience, the extension is now installed in your Edge browser, but by default the new extensions are always disabled. The browser will ask for confirmation to proceed with the installation of the extension: In this website you need to click on the Get button. You need to download the Custom New Tab extension from the official Microsoft Edge Add-ons website here (don't worry it will just take a few clicks and don't blame me, blame Microsoft edge team!):

Download and install Custom New Tab extension Surprisingly, this isn't something you can simply change in the settings of your browser, absolutely horrible! Microsoft Edge forces you to use that homepage when you open a new tab (even if you change the default start page, new tabs will open a mess of Adverts and content that you're probably not interested in).Īfter some research, I found this easy solution that I'm sure will be useful for you as well. I'm not a fan of Microsoft Edge, I use Google Chrome everyday, however my father likes to use Microsoft Edge and therefore, he asked for some help about this issue. In this case, a regular problem that a lot of people are facing is that the new tab button of the browser automatically sets a Bing based search and recommendations page:

Microsoft forgets very often that humans have free will and they force people to use their subproducts because we decide to use some of their products.

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