Category: Microsoft Edge

Sometimes changes come fast. Quickly after Chrome, Edge adopted the removal of the HTTPS and WWW portions of the URL in the address bar with build 86.0.576.0 in the Canary channel.

How to Enable or Disable Offer to Save Passwords in Microsoft Edge Chromium

Each time you enter some credentials for a website, Microsoft Edge asks you to save them. The next time you open the same web site, your browser will auto-fill the saved credentials. If you are signed in to Edge with your Microsoft account, you can use your passwords on various devices like PCs, tablets and laptops, as they will be synced.

How to Assign the Backspace Key to Go Back a Page in Microsoft Edge

As you may already know, starting in Chrome 52, Google has removed the ability to use the Backspace Key for navigating backwards by a page. Since the modern Microsoft Edge is a Chromium-based browser, it retains the same behavior. However, Microsoft has added an experimental option that allows using the Backspace key to go back a page.

How to Enable or Disable History and Favorites Suggestions in Edge Address Bar

Microsoft Edge now allows you to include or exclude favorites, history entries, and other browsing data from suggestions you see when typing in the address bar of the browser. The appropriate option is now available in the privacy section of  Edge's settings.

How to Enable or Disable Offer to Translate Pages in Microsoft Edge Chromium

By default, Microsoft Edge offers translating web pages that are not in your default language of the browser. If you are not happy to see such prompts every time you visit a page in a foreign language, you may want to disable them. For example, you may prefer alternative translators to Bing, which is enabled by default in Edge.

Microsoft has announced the “first-look” rollout of the Storage Access API that is now available in the Canary and Dev channels of Microsoft Edge. This API allows developers to determine whether their access to browser-based storage is restricted by a user’s privacy settings and to request storage access from users if so.  For users, this API provides greater transparency into and control over the sites that are requesting access to browser-based storage that could be used to track their behaviors across the web.

How to delete Microsoft Edge address bar suggestions with the mouse

Now you can finally delete an address in the Edge address bar with a mouse click. Microsoft has updated the browser with a new option.

How to Disable Continue Running Background Apps when Microsoft Edge is Closed

Microsoft has introduced a couple of new options in the latest Canary build of the Edge browser. One of the options allows preventing web apps from running in the background when you close the Edge browser. By default, this behavior is enabled, and apps may remain active and continue to consume computer's resources.

How to Enable or Disable Preload New Tab Page in Microsoft Edge Chromium

Microsoft has introduced a couple of new options in the latest Canary build of Microsoft Edge. The app now allows disabling preload of the New Tab page contents, which is enabled by default.

Similarly to the Desktop version, Edge for Android has got a special edge://flags page. From there, Edge users will be able to enable or disable experimental features of the browser.