Change homepage in Microsoft Edge

Every time you open the Microsoft Edge browser, the homepage is displayed. It is the page that is displayed when opening the browser, but can also be used when reopening a new tab.

If you have never customized the home page before, Microsoft Edge will display a 'new tab' with all kinds of information about the current weather, different types of news and current information about your region. This information is provided by “MSN” part of Microsoft.

There are three different types of settings you can choose if you want to change the homepage in Microsoft Edge. This is how it works.

Change homepage in Microsoft Edge

To get started, open the Microsoft Edge browser. Click on the menu icon at the top right. In the menu, click on “settings”.

Make the Microsoft Edge window a bit larger so that the menu on the left becomes visible. Then click on the left in the “settings” menu on “Start, Home and New tabs”.

At the top you will see “When Edge starts”. Here you have three different choices to set a homepage.

The first option “Open the new tab page”. This will open the standard MSN tab. This tab contains the Bing search engine with additional news from your region and current information.

The second option is “Open tabs from the previous session“. If you were to close Microsoft Edge with active tabs still open, enabling this option will reopen all last active tabs. You continue, as it were, where you left off in your previous session.

Also read: 4 Ways to Recover Closed Tabs in Microsoft Edge.

If you want to open a specific page or pages when launching the Microsoft Edge browser, enable the “open these pages” option and click the “add a new page” button. You then enter the URL of the page you want to set as the homepage.

Repeat this process with multiple URLs to set multiple websites as your homepage. These are then all loaded into different tabs when launching the Microsoft Edge browser.

Display and customize home page button

Additionally, I recommend that you also set the homepage under the “home” button. Every time you click on the Home button, the set home page is loaded.

To do this, enable the “Show Home button on the toolbar” option and set a homepage by typing the URL in the text field. Confirm by clicking the “Save” button. If you prefer to open a new tab, enable the “New Tab Page” option.

Set custom new tab

By default, Microsoft Edge does not allow you to set a custom new tab page. The standard MSN tab is opened every time.

To set up a custom tab page you will need to install a browser extension. This then allows you to enter your own URL that opens when you open a new tab in the Microsoft Edge browser.

The extension I recommend is the “Custom New tab” browser extension. Once installed, Microsoft Edge disables this extension because it changes your browser settings. This is a security setting. So you need to enable the extension again.

In the address bar type: edge://extensions/. Then re-enable the “Custom New Tab” browser extension.

Now open a new tab by clicking on the “+” icon at the top. Then enter the URL to be displayed when opening a new tab and click “Save” to save the change.

Now every time you open a new tab, the URL of your choice will be displayed. I hope this helped you. Thank you for reading!

Also read: Change these 10 privacy settings in Microsoft Edge.