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Hi folks

Just as I was beginning to think Edge was improving as a browser Ms seems to have hosed it up on the DEV release. It opens with all sorts of News / weather stuff on it and there seems to be no way of just getting back to the plain vanilla enter URL / serach etc.

Switching back to Firefox again.

Only Ms seem to have the knack of destroying a piece of software again after making it "reasonably useful".

If I'm doing a serach for something I don't want to know about the state of the stock market in Vanutu, the weather in the Solomon Islands, riots on the streets of france etc etc. There's plenty of better sites for those such as BBC, Deutsche Welle, CNN, SKY news etc etc.

Cheers
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Here's some of the Firefox tweaks I use...

Firefox... taming the beast part 2 !! - Windows 10 Help Forums

First things first... stop Firefox from automatically updating. Simply unzip and drop this "distribution" folder into... C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox After manually updating Firefox this folder will be erased, so save a copy somewher
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jimbo45 said:
Hi folks

Just as I was beginning to think Edge was improving as a browser Ms seems to have hosed it up on the DEV release. It opens with all sorts of News / weather stuff on it and there seems to be no way of just getting back to the plain vanilla enter URL / serach etc.

Switching back to Firefox again.

Only Ms seem to have the knack of destroying a piece of software again after making it "reasonably useful".

If I'm doing a serach for something I don't want to know about the state of the stock market in Vanutu, the weather in the Solomon Islands, riots on the streets of france etc etc. There's plenty of better sites for those such as BBC, Deutsche Welle, CNN, SKY news etc etc.

Cheers
jimbo
Click to expand...

EDGE started showing microsoft start for every new tab with a huge page of political news stories, cant change it

I want my old Bing start page back. How do I do it. Every time I hit new tab, I see this stuff/ I used to see a noce background image of some nature scene! I did nothing to change this, it did it on its own
www.elevenforum.com www.elevenforum.com

Same issue here, I forced it to use a different home page, one of my choosing by using an edge extension. And using customization options you can eliminate all news feeds on that Bing.com page too.

Having trouble accessing customization options in Bing.com menu

Is that true for your setup?
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I don't use edge but after reading your comments i thought i would see what you're on about.
What a mess, junk everywhere!
I'm sticking with Brave and Firefox, not an advertisement anywhere with the right blockers.
 

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I use Edge and I'm not seeing anything like you're describing. But then I never use beta (DEV) software. I switched from Chrome to Edge (Chromium) several years ago and would never go back to Chrome.
 

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