Set Microsoft Edge Startup, Home Button and New Tab Pages

Changing the Microsoft Edge home page in 2026 requires choosing the correct setting: the Home button page, the startup page, and the new tab page are controlled separately. This guide covers the current Chromium-based Microsoft Edge on Windows 11 and Windows 10, including personal Microsoft accounts, local profiles, and organization-managed work or school profiles.

Choose which Edge page you want to change​

Match the result you want to the correct Edge setting:

• A website should open when Edge launches: Change When Edge starts.
• A website should open when you click the Home button: Change the Home button setting.
• You want to change the appearance of every new tab: Customize the built-in New tab page.
• You want every new tab to open an arbitrary website: Consumer Edge does not provide a built-in URL field for this. You need an extension, or an administrator must configure an Edge policy.

Changing one of these settings does not automatically change the others. For example, setting the Home button to a news website will not make that website appear when you launch Edge.

Make Edge open a specific website at startup​

Use this procedure if you want Microsoft Edge to open Google, Outlook, a company portal, or another website whenever you start the browser.

1. Open Microsoft Edge.
2. Select Settings and more—the three-dot button in the upper-right corner.
3. Select Settings.
4. In the left pane, select Start, home, and new tab page.
   You can also enter the following internal address in the address bar:
   edge://settings/startHomeNTP
5. Find the When Edge starts section.
6. Select Open these pages.
7. Select Add a new page.
8. Enter the complete website address, including https://. For example:
   [Your request has been blocked. This could be due to several reasons.](https://www.microsoft.com)
9. Select Add.
10. Close all open Edge windows, and then start Edge again.

The specified website should open when a new Edge browsing session begins.
If you want several sites to open, select Add a new page again for each address. Each site normally opens in its own tab.

Use your currently open tabs as the startup pages​

If you already have all the required websites open:

1. Open each website in a separate Edge tab.
2. Go to Settings and more > Settings > Start, home, and new tab page.
3. Under When Edge starts, select Open these pages.
4. Select Use all open tabs, if that button is available in your current Edge build.
5. Review the resulting list and remove any tabs you do not want opened at startup.

Edit or remove a startup page​

1. Return to Settings > Start, home, and new tab page.
2. Under When Edge starts, locate the saved address.
3. Select the three-dot menu next to the address.
4. Select Edit to change it or Delete to remove it.
5. Close every Edge window and relaunch the browser to test the result.

No Windows restart is normally required.

Restore the new tab page or your previous session at startup​

You do not have to open a fixed website. The same startup section provides other behaviors.

1. Open:
   edge://settings/startHomeNTP
2. Under When Edge starts, choose the required option:
   • Open the new tab page starts Edge with its built-in new tab experience.
   • Open tabs from the previous session attempts to restore the tabs that were open when Edge closed.
   • Open these pages opens a saved list of website addresses.

Microsoft also supports an administrator-controlled startup mode that can restore the previous session and open a specified list of URLs. That combined behavior may appear on managed devices depending on the Edge version and organizational policy.
Be aware that Open tabs from the previous session can reopen pages containing sensitive information. Sign out of websites before closing Edge when other people can access the same Windows account.

Set the page opened by the Home button​

The Home button setting controls only what happens when you click the house-shaped toolbar icon or press the Edge home-page keyboard shortcut. It does not control browser startup.

1. Open Microsoft Edge.
2. Select Settings and more > Settings.
3. Select Start, home, and new tab page.
4. Under the Home button section, turn on Show home button on the toolbar.
5. Choose one of the available actions:
   • New tab page
   • Enter URL
6. To use a website, select Enter URL and type its complete address.
7. Select Save if Edge displays a Save button.

The Home icon should now appear to the left of the address bar. Click it to verify that the selected page opens.
You can also test the configured home page by pressing:
Alt+Home
The Home button normally opens the configured page in the current tab. Open a new tab first if you do not want to replace the page you are currently viewing.

Hide the Home button again​

1. Open Settings > Start, home, and new tab page.
2. Turn off Show home button on the toolbar.

Hiding the button does not necessarily erase the saved home-page address. Turning the button on again may restore the previous selection.

Customize the built-in new tab page​

Opening a new tab with the + button or Ctrl+T normally displays Edge’s built-in new tab page. Personal versions of Edge let you customize that page, but they do not provide a standard setting for replacing it with any website.

1. Open a new tab.
2. Select the Page settings gear in the upper-right area of the new tab page.
3. Choose the available layout and content options.

Depending on your Edge version, region, account, and administrator settings, these controls can include:

• Page layout
• Background
• Quick links
• Weather or other information cards
• Microsoft Start or feed content
• Content visibility

Changes should appear immediately. If the controls are missing or unavailable, check whether the current profile is managed by a workplace or school.
The settings gear customizes Microsoft’s new tab page. It does not turn a website such as Google or Outlook into the new tab page.

Use an extension to open a website in every new tab​

A new-tab extension is a workaround, not a built-in Edge home-page setting. Use one only if you specifically need every new tab to load an arbitrary URL.
Warning: A new-tab extension can see or change important browser behavior. Review its publisher, requested permissions, privacy information, update history, and user reports before installing it. Avoid extensions that request access unrelated to changing the new tab page.

1. Open Microsoft Edge.
2. Select Extensions to the right of the address bar.
   If the button is hidden, select Settings and more > Extensions.
3. Select Get Extensions for Microsoft Edge.
4. Search for an extension designed to redirect or replace the new tab page.
5. Open the extension’s details page.
6. Select Get.
7. Review the permissions shown by Edge.
8. Select Add extension only if the permissions are acceptable.
9. Follow the extension’s setup screen and enter the desired website address.
10. Press Ctrl+T to test a new tab.

Edge may warn you when an extension changes the new tab page. This is a security check intended to prevent an extension from silently taking control of browser settings.

Roll back a new-tab extension​

If new tabs stop working, show advertising, redirect unexpectedly, or become slow:

1. Select Extensions > Manage extensions.
2. Find the new-tab extension.
3. Turn off its switch.
4. Open another new tab and test Edge.
5. If disabling it resolves the problem, select Remove.
6. Confirm Remove from Microsoft Edge.

Removing the extension should return Edge to its built-in new tab page unless another extension or organizational policy is also changing it.

Change the home page in Edge for Android or iPhone​

The mobile Edge interface is separate from the Windows desktop settings. Microsoft’s current mobile instructions use the following path on Android and iOS:

1. Open Microsoft Edge on the phone or tablet.
2. Tap the … menu.
3. Tap Settings.
4. Tap General.
5. Tap Home page.
6. Choose:
   • New tab page, or
   • A specific page
7. If you select a specific page, use the current page or enter the required URL.
8. Tap Save.

Menu placement can vary with screen size, accessibility settings, and mobile app updates. If General or Home page is not visible, update Microsoft Edge through the device’s app store and check the Settings menu again.
Desktop Edge settings do not necessarily synchronize this mobile home-page selection, even when both browsers use the same Microsoft account.

Check whether your organization controls the setting​

Work and school administrators can enforce the Home button, startup behavior, startup URL list, and new tab page. An enforced setting may be unavailable, display a managed-browser indicator, or revert after Edge refreshes its policies.
To check the browser’s policy status:

1. Open Microsoft Edge.
2. Enter this address:
   edge://policy
3. Select Reload policies.
4. Look for relevant policy names, including:
   • HomepageLocation
   • HomepageIsNewTabPage
   • ShowHomeButton
   • RestoreOnStartup
   • RestoreOnStartupURLs
   • RestoreOnStartupUserURLsEnabled
   • NewTabPageLocation

HomepageLocation controls the page associated with the Home button. RestoreOnStartup and RestoreOnStartupURLs control launch behavior. NewTabPageLocation can replace the new tab page on managed devices.
Do not delete organization policy registry values to bypass workplace management. Contact the IT administrator and provide the policy names shown on edge://policy. Mandatory policies cannot be overridden through the regular Edge Settings page.

Fix Edge opening the wrong page​

If Edge still opens an unexpected screen, use the fix that matches the symptom.

Edge opens old tabs instead of the selected website​

1. Open edge://settings/startHomeNTP.
2. Under When Edge starts, select Open these pages rather than Open tabs from the previous session.
3. Confirm that the correct URL appears in the list.
4. Close every Edge window.
5. Open Task Manager and allow any remaining Edge processes to close normally, or wait several seconds.
6. Start Edge again.

Startup boost can leave minimal Edge processes running in the background, but it should not change the configured startup mode.

Clicking Home opens the correct page, but launching Edge does not​

This means the Home button was configured correctly but startup was not.

1. Leave the Home button setting unchanged.
2. Under When Edge starts, select Open these pages.
3. Add the same URL to the startup list.
4. Close and reopen Edge.

The URL must be configured in both places if you want identical behavior at startup and when clicking Home.

A new tab still shows Microsoft content​

That is expected when only the startup or Home button page has been changed. The consumer new tab page is separate.
Use its Page settings gear to adjust the built-in page. Install a carefully vetted extension only if you require a custom new-tab URL.

The website redirects to another page​

Open the saved startup URL manually in the address bar. If it redirects there as well, the redirect is being performed by the website, authentication system, DNS service, or network—not by the Edge home-page setting.
Update the saved address to the final preferred URL if appropriate.

An unwanted page returns after you remove it​

1. Check edge://policy for managed startup or home-page policies.
2. Open Extensions > Manage extensions and disable unfamiliar extensions.
3. Recheck the startup list under edge://settings/startHomeNTP.
4. Run Windows Security > Virus & threat protection > Scan options > Full scan if unauthorized browser changes continue.
5. Remove any recently installed program that claims to manage search, coupons, browser tabs, or web browsing.

After correcting the cause, close all Edge windows and launch Edge again. Verify startup, the Home button, and a new tab separately because each surface retains its own setting.

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   Published: 2026-07-14T17:46:13.233000+00:00
   
   

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