While you've got that right-hand menu open, you can open an InPrivate browsing session in a separate window, whereby all of your cookies and browsing history will be deleted once you close the tab. Ditto if your previous default browser was Chrome or Firefox or some such. What might surprise you is that even if IE was your default browser in Win 8, Edge won't automatically import your IE favorites when it becomes the new default browser.
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As you might expect, there's a way to import your favorites from another browser - a particularly handy feature for those of you who chose to do an in-place upgrade from Windows 8.
I've already mentioned a couple things you can do from the settings menu - change the theme, for instance - but it's worth going over the other options at your disposal. Fun with settingsīy subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy. That said, I think we can all agree that Edge is more responsive (and mobile-friendly, and touch-friendly) than the desktop version of Internet Explorer ever was. Still, there are limits: When I snapped Edge in so that it took up half the screen, some websites, like, were cut off, requiring me to scroll from side to side.
I generally found this to be true, especially with sites like Engadget (ahem) that were designed to be responsive. It's worth mentioning too that in addition to having a minimal design, Edge was designed to scale well, so that regardless of the device you're using or how you choose to resize the window, the contents of the page should scale smoothly as you move from a big window to, say, a narrow one. That would make Edge look even cleaner upon boot-up than it already does. (You can still show the favorites bar if you really want it.) Out of the box, the page you'll see every time you launch the browser is Microsoft's own MSN portal (can't fault the company for promoting it), but you can easily change this in the settings so that you see a specific web page or even just a blank page. There's not much to Edge's design, and that's a good thing.īy default, the favorites bar is hidden, which goes a long way in making Edge look cleaner than any version of IE that came before it. As with everything else here, these icons are exactly where you'd expect them to be, and even if you're a first-time user, it should be obvious at a glance what these buttons are for. (I prefer the stock light one, but that's just me.) Lastly, there are buttons just to the right of the address bar for adding favorites and entering Reading View. Meanwhile, the icon all the way on the right brings up various settings, including the ability to swap out the default white theme for a black background. The icon farthest to the left is where you'll find your favorites, browsing history, downloads and your so-called Reading List, which I'll tell you about shortly. Up in the upper-right corner, you'll see four icons, which allow you to mark up a page (more on that later) or share a page (more on that later as well). Nearby are self-explanatory icons for forward, back and refresh. As in Chrome, there's just one bar toward the top of the screen that doubles as the address box and search field.
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Quick note: You can also click the "Discover more themes" option to open the "Themes" store where you can download new Microsoft Edge themes featured images and colors.(Optional) Choose the Custom theme and click the Manage button to select one of the available themes.(Optional) Choose the "Your own image" button and click the Upload button to choose a personal photo you want to display in the new tab page.Under the "Background" section, choose to show a different image or video every day.(Optional) Turn off the "Show prompted links" to minimize ads on the page.Use the Quick links setting and choose when to show or hide quick links to frequent sites.
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