Now, most Microsoft Edge insiders want to disable news feed on the start page in Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser. Classic Edge does offer settings to hide feed and Top sites on new tab page and it even allows to set NTP to a blank page, where the new Edge doesn’t, but still, you can able to disable news feed in new Microsoft Edge browser.
First things first, new Edge allows to customize the new tab page to your liking, it provides Focused, Inspirational, Informational and Custom options in the hamburger menu where you can choose an option. Focused only shows top sites whereas Inspirational along with Top sites, shows image of the day from Bing, and Informational adds more garbage with the news feed.
The custom option allows to hide all three: Most visited sites, Image of day and feeds, but feeds will be still visible if you scroll down.
Why should you satisfy with custom option when you can actually hide news feed permanently, here is how you can do that.
Disable news Feed in Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser
1. Visit about:flags
2. Find “Enable using the Microsoft Edge local NTP”
3. Select Enabled
4. Restart the browser.
Open new tab page to see clean start page with Microsoft branding and search box. The distractions have been minimized, hope you like this?
To get new tab page settings back, set the above-mentioned flag setting to default.
nope. that flag doesn’t get rid of the news section – just scroll down and it’s still there, i.e. it’s loading every time you open a new tab
Before enabling the flag you need to choose custom and turn off ” show feeds”, then it should work. We’ll update the article with this clarification.