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The first web page you encounter when Edge connects to the internet may

be a “What’s New in Windows 10” page, or the Microsoft Edge Tips page,
or Microsoft’s standard news starter page. Of course, there’s an address bar
so you can type a URL. But you may find web browsing more fun if you
specify your own favorite web page as your startup page.

The easiest way to go about it is to follow the instructions shown in
Figure 9-2. Your options include these:

Start page. If you choose “Start page,” Edge always opens with a
news-headline page. You’re supposed to tailor it to your own
interests; hit Personalize, and choose news categories that interest

you: Horoscopes, Parenting, Pets, Investing, NCAA Basketball,
and so on.

Go to My Feed to reap what you’ve sown. Here are tiles

representing individual stories from the web, on the topics you’ve
set up on the Personalize tab.

Note

This customized Start page appears when you first open Edge (assuming you’ve chosen “Start
page” in Settings). But when you open a new tab, you get a row of icons that represent Top Sites
above the usual Start-page news items. Top Sites are Microsoft’s calculations of the sites you visit

most often. You can turn them off in → → “Open new tabs with.”
You can also get rid of one of the suggestions (point to it and click the ), prevent it from being
replaced by Microsoft’s subsequent suggestions (point to it and hit ), or install a new site of
your choosing (eliminate at least one of the tiles, hit the + tile, specify the new site, and then hit
to pin it).