Yes, I shall find the Bar most annoying, but there’s a way to eliminate it, thanks to Martin. That kind of paranoia, oddly enough, doesn’t translate to users who complain about privacy and MS practices and then obtain and maintain social media sites by a baker’s dozen, sites that are truly scavenging any word written.

The start page does offer infinitely better newsworthy stories when compared to something like Yahoo.Īs far as privacy and selling personal search history information to advertisers, it may be worse than we can imagine, or it may be an artificial complaint forged by maniacs who should simply stay away from any MS products including Windows. To quickly search with keyboard shortcuts, press Ctrl+t to open a new tab page or Ctrl+L to focus the address bar on the current page and start typing your search.EdgeOS–not a bad name for a new MS product.Īnyway, no Edge Bar on my Edge browser as of today. RELATED: 47 Keyboard Shortcuts That Work in All Web Browsers This change also affects the “Where to next?” box on the new tab page, giving you a way to easily search your favorite search engine. Edge will even provide suggestions from it in the drop-down box, assuming your search engine supports suggestions and you leave them enabled in Edge’s settings. You can now type a search query into Edge’s address bar and press Enter-it’ll automatically search your default search engine. Step Three: Search From the Address Bar or New Tab Page You may want to contact the search engine and ask it to support OpenSearch so you can use it as your default search engine in Microsoft Edge. If you have visited the homepage and it still doesn’t appear, that search engine doesn’t support OpenSearch yet. If the search engine you want to use doesn’t appear here, be sure you’ve visited the search engine’s homepage first.

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