In Microsoft Edge, the Address bar (Search box) always shows the placeholder text “Search or enter web address”. If you find this distracting, here is a way to remove the default placeholder text and make it appear blank.Read more
Microsoft Edge (legacy)
Microsoft Edge is a web browser included in Windows 10 operating systems. Edge is very fast, and is getting better and better as new Windows 10 builds come up. You’ll find all articles about Edge, in this category.
Microsoft Edge Disable Zoom or Reset Zoom Level at Every Start
Microsoft Edge has a page zoom feature that you can configure by clicking More (the icon showing three docs) or with Ctrl + Mouse scroll like any other browser. Edge doesn’t maintain the zoom factor setting for individual websites.
Enable Warning on Closing Multiple Tabs in Microsoft Edge
By default, Microsoft Edge doesn’t issue a warning if you close your Microsoft Edge browser window with multiple tabs open. Sometimes we may accidentally close the browser window and wondering how to restore the session back.
You can press Ctrl + Shift + T to reopen the tabs closed during the last browser session.
Additionally, you can force Microsoft Edge to warn you when you attempt to close the browser window accidentally with multiple open tabs. Here’s how to do that.Read more
Microsoft Edge – Prevent Download of Unsafe Files Blocked by SmartScreen Filter
The SmartScreen Filter warns the user when running unrecognized programs or files downloaded from the internet. When you download files using Microsoft Edge, the file download is blocked if the source URL is blacklisted or the downloaded program fails the application reputation check by Microsoft SmartScreen filter.
However, Edge Chromium allows users to download the unsafe file regardless of the warning, by clicking on the “Keep” option in the Downloads flyout.
Likewise, on Microsoft Edge (legacy), every time when a file download is blocked, the following message shows up:
"filename" is unsafe to download and was blocked by SmartScreen Filter.
Still, users can download the blocked file manually by opening the Downloads panel, right-clicking on the blocked file, and choosing “Download unsafe file” option in the right-click menu.
This article explains how to prevent users from downloading the ‘unsafe’ file on Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Edge Chromium.Read more
Microsoft Edge: Always Show Address Bar on New Tab Pages
When you start Microsoft Edge, the Start page shows the “Where to next?” search box where you can type a web address or use it to search the web using Edge’s default search engine. This is also the case for every new tab page you open — although you can show the address bar by clicking on the gray area where it’s supposed to appear. To make Microsoft Edge always show address bar on new tab pages on the top (instead of the “Where to next?” search box), this post discusses a registry edit.Read more
Microsoft Edge Gets a Tab Preview Pane on the Top
Tab grouping or “set your tabs aside” is the latest feature addition to Microsoft Edge. Along with that, Microsoft Edge, in the Windows 10 Creators Update includes an option where you can permanently show or hide tab previews in a panel docked at the top.Read more
Microsoft Edge: Set Tabs Aside and Share a Tab Group with Other Apps
Microsoft Edge gets the tab grouping feature in Windows 10 Creators Update. This new feature lets you set aside a group of tabs, which you can restore later or quickly add the tab group to favorites.Read more
How to Reset, Repair or Reinstall Edge Web Browser
Sometimes, web browsers may need a complete reset — to revert to the default settings especially in the aftermath and removal of a browser-based attack, search hijack, PUA, PUP or Adware infection. We recently saw how to reset Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox manually. This post tells you how to reset Microsoft Edge completely and start afresh.Read more
Search with Google via right-click menu in Microsoft Edge
Microsoft Edge uses the Bing search engine by default when you select a word or phrase and search via the right-click menu. This article tells you how to change Edge’s default search engine (for the address bar and context menu search) to Google.Read more
Pin a Website Shortcut to the Windows 10 Start Menu
If you’ve been using desktop shortcuts to open your favorite websites, you can instead pin those websites to the Windows 10 Start menu to make your desktop clutter-free.
Moreover, pinning websites to the Start screen helps you get to those sites quickly especially when your Windows 10 device is in Tablet mode, where the Start screen occupies the full screen, covering your desktop. You can pin website shortcuts to the Windows 10 Start screen using Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, or Firefox.Read more
