Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.
In Edge settings, there are only options to set the Home page and the Start page, they have not provided a setting to set the 'New Tab' page in the Edge browser.
To set a specific page as the New Tab page in Edge, you will need to use an Edge extension like this one from the Edge Extensions page:
https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/deta...
Answer from DaveM121 on learn.microsoft.comHi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.
In Edge settings, there are only options to set the Home page and the Start page, they have not provided a setting to set the 'New Tab' page in the Edge browser.
To set a specific page as the New Tab page in Edge, you will need to use an Edge extension like this one from the Edge Extensions page:
https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/deta...
I can't believe Microsoft won't allow you to set up what URL link you want opened when you open a new tab. How have operating systems and web browsers gotten worse. This is a basic setting that microsoft eliminated so we have to look at their garbage news and microsoft is trying to push you into using their search engine. No wonder people jump to chrome. Though chrome has google but at least that is better than BING.
What is the keyboard shortcut to open a new tab in Microsoft Edge?
a.
Ctrl + W
b.
Ctrl + T
c.
Ctrl + N
d.
Ctrl + Shift + T
Shortcut to Add New Tab Directly Under Tab Group
on new tab window, it keeps opening shortcuts on a new tab (PC,windows)
Is there a shortcut for "click to open link in new tab" on a laptop?
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Now that edge has switched to chromium base, there is an easy command line option which will achieve this -new-window
For example
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe" -new-window https://www.google.com
Pre-chromium edge (broken links):
The only thing I can think of to force this is to use a webdriver in the shortcut command which should enable a forced new windows from the options here
Specifically I think the new session would do it, although apparently there have been issues with this but I did see someone who had success
It's amazing that this is still not supported, EIGHT years later! ;-)
If you want to fix it system-wide read on...
You should check out BrowseRouter. It is meant to launch a different browser depending on the URL.
However, I use BrowseRouter to open URL links in a new browser window. Secondarily, for me, it allows me to use different browsers based on what the URL is. For instance, I can open google.com URLs Chrome and outlook.com URLs in Edge, etc.
But the pertinent info here is that I can specify the --new-window argument in the BrowseRouter config.ini file for each browser:
[browsers]
edge = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe" --new-window
edge_private = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe" -inprivate --new-window
chrome = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --new-window
Then further down in the config.ini file, tell it to open all links in edge:
[urls]
*.google.com = chrome
*.a-private-url.com = edge_private
; everything else goes to Edge
* = edge
Now, whenever a URL is opened (from outside of a browser) it gets opened in its own browser Window.
I am not involved with this project except for being a fan. Although, I did do some mods to its predecessor BrowserSelector.
Everytime i click one of the shortcut links/favorite links when im on the new tab page, it would open it on a new tab. Is there a way to just open the link on the same page instead?