Why do Microsoft's web browsers always have to be from hell? In Edge, I cannot even choose first page for new windows, but instead fucking Bing is forced upon me.

You can get the IE out of a MS browser but you can’t get MS out of a MS browser.

Before you ask, I'm only using Edge at work and the only reason I'm using it is that Confluence, another poor piece of software, doesn't work in Firefox. An obvious downside of working at a fairly big company with group policies and such, is that I as an indivual don't get to choose the tools that are best suited for the job. I would begin by throwing away almost everything from Microsoft, Atlassian, IBM, SAP, Adobe and Jabra.

@Lensflare Well put!

I installed (Custom New Tab) extension for Ms Edge to start with Google on new tabs. Ps. I am using Edge browser at work only.

@TerriToniAX I also work at a big company and the crappy internal SAP websites only work on Edge.
This is just pathetic.

@Biggy

Thank you so much! 😃 I tried Custom New Tab and it totally solves the problem. You saved my day 👍

@TerriToniAX why not use pure chromium in that case?

@feuerherz

Doesn't that behave the same as Edge?

@TerriToniAX not in terms of forcing bing on you. And it's de-googled aswell, as it's the open source version.

@feuerherz

Ah, but it still behaves like Chrome in other aspects, like opening new windows in tabs instead of windows, and having an "omnibox" (or whatever it's called) instead of a proper address box and a proper search box. So there, that's the answer to why not to use Chromium.