Solved EDGE started showing microsoft start for every new tab with a huge page of political news stories, cant change it

I want my old Bing start page back. How do I do it.
Every time I hit new tab, I see this stuff/

I used to see a noce background image of some nature scene! I did nothing to change this, it did it on its own

I try to change the setting under home, type www.bing.com and browser ignores it. Try to change it, hover over the save button and it gives me a red circle with a slash bar. it refuses to let me change my new tab page. If I click customize under new tab page,, it loads a new tab showing news and Microsoft start

When I open a new tab and manually address type in www.bing.com, I see my original new tab page as it used to look. Had to leave off bottom half of snip as it says image too large to upload here
When I hit the home button it will show bing.com page like below

I found a work around using an extension. so it now shows bing.com as my new tab page.
This issue is happening on another of my windows 11 pc too.
MS wants to force you onto a web page of their choice to see news and ads.

Amazing what you have to go through to get back to what it once was.

sdowney717 said:

I want my old Bing start page back. How do I do it.

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sdowney717 said:

Amazing what you have to go through to get back to what it once was.

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No it isn't, not if you know where to look. Click the cogwheel, top right of the page and scroll down the settings....



Change the Content to 'Content off'.

sdowney717 said:

I found a work around using an extension.

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Try this one, it offers much more customizations. I like it simple though, I use address bar to search.

Bree said:

No it isn't, not if you know where to look. Click the cogwheel, top right of the page and scroll down the settings....

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Change the Content to 'Content off'.

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It is still not the bing.com home page though. I like seeing that page as it shows my reward points
See next to my user icon on right side

There is no way in hell you should have to install an extension just to open a desired page in a new background or foreground tab!!!

MS actually has a way to make Bing your home page.
I suppose does not use an extension?
I did not try it.

Well ok I did try it and it uses an extension made by them

Funny thing it loaded Chrome, and I dont see the extension installed in edge or chrome. I don't think it installed or works.