Microsoft Edge pushes new features and improvements with every update for desktop and mobile platforms. A recent addition is the Edge bar to enhance your multitasking capabilities.
The Edge Bar is a customizable widget that you can use to perform quick Bing searches, fetch news, get weather updates, visit your favorite websites, etc.
We’ll show you how to enable, use, and customize the Edge bar in Microsoft Edge on Windows 11. So let’s get started.
How to Enable the Edge Bar in Microsoft Edge
First, let’s see how to enable the Edge bar in Microsoft Edge.
Step 1: Launch Microsoft Edge on your PC. Use the three-dot menu icon in the top right corner to open Settings.
Step 2: Use the left pane to navigate to the Edge bar. On your right, turn on the switch next to ‘Automatically open Edge Bar when computer starts’.
That’s about it. The Edge bar will launch automatically every time your PC boots up.
If you do not intend to open the Edge bar at startup, you will have to open the Edge bar manually. To do so, open Microsoft Edge. Click the three-dot menu icon in the top right, navigate to More Tools, and select Launch Edge Bar.
How to use the Edge bar on Windows 11
In the Edge bar, use the search box at the top to quickly perform a Bing search or visit a website.
Visiting a website in the Edge bar feels like a miniature browser. The buttons at the bottom help you move back, forward, visit the homepage or refresh the web page. You can also open the website in a browser window from here.
By default, the Edge bar shows you four different tabs: MSN (Microsoft Network), Bing, Outlook app, and LinkedIn. But you can add more tabs as you see fit. To add a new tab, click the Plus icon to the right of the Edge bar.
Similarly, to delete a tab, right-click it and select Delete.
Finally, to close the Edge bar, click the cross icon in the bottom right corner. Alternatively, you can also minimize the Edge bar from here.
How to customize the Edge bar on Windows 11
The edge bar also offers a few customization options that you can use to achieve the best possible experience. Read on to learn more about them.
By default, Windows automatically pins the Edge bar to the right side of the screen. But you can use the Autohide option to minimize the Edge bar when not in use.
However, it will not completely hide the Edge bar as you will see a thin vertical Edge bar on the right.
If you don’t like the idea of the Edge bar always taking up a portion of the screen, you can also unpin the Edge bar and turn it into a floating widget.
Furthermore, you can turn the Edge bar widget into a floating button when not in use. For that, click on the gear icon and select ‘Enable Floating Buttons.’
You can place the floating button anywhere along the edge of the screen.
The edge bar gives you several different layout options. You can use ‘Vertical Layout’ (default option) or use ‘Search Only Layout’ which is similar to Mac’s focus search.
To change the layout of the Edge bar, click the gear icon and choose your preferred layout.
Personalize the edge bar feed
Don’t like what you see in your Edge bar feed? Do not worry. You can personalize your Edge bar feed to define what news, updates, and sources you want to see in your feed. This is the way.
Step 1: Open the Edge bar and click the gear icon to open Settings.
Step 2: In the browser window that opens, click the Personalize button next to ‘Personalize Edge bar feed’.
Step 3: In My Interests, explore different topics and tick the ones you want to follow.
Similarly, you can also define your interests by liking or disliking a story from the news feed. Click the three-dot menu icon on the story card to select ‘More stories like this’ or ‘Less stories like this’. You can also hide stories from a specific website from here.
If you’d like to see your Edge bar feed in another language, click the translate icon and then use the drop-down menu to choose a language for it.
Let’s live on the edge
The edge bar is another attempt by Microsoft to promote Microsoft Edge over its competition (mainly Chrome). But if you find yourself liking widgets on Windows 11, you’ll love the Edge bar, too.
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