Open a specific page or pages broken since KB4023057 / KB5003173 (only works if you set Bing as the default search engine).....

Anonymous
2021-05-12T21:29:00+00:00

Since installing KB4023057 / KB5003173 the Edge 'On start up' setting of 'Open a specific page or pages' no longer works.... Well I say it no longer works... It works if you set the default search engine to Bing, anything other than Bing and it only brings up the MSN news feed (as you would normally get when you open a new tab).

This is pretty annoying, and a big issue in my opinion (forcing people into using Bing, especially with the new nag windows that you cannot get rid of).....

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-05-31T09:15:19+00:00

    Just restored from image and updated, and yes looks like all resolved now (albeit seems to be no bump to Edge version - how are these fixes pushed exactly....?!)

    Thanks all for the input and help.

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  2. Sumit 44,431 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2021-05-30T08:05:19+00:00

    Incidentally I just noticed my spell check was not working, and changed the below setting back to default. With this back to default it still worked OK and without any issues so that would be my recommendation as a better workaround/fix (disabling/restarting Edge then putting it back to default and restarting)

    edge://flags/#edge-show-feature-recommendations

    The problem appears to be fixed on MS end(which was around the same time I posted). Hence you no longer see the behaviour.

    Have updated my post.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-05-30T07:56:51+00:00

    Incidentally I just noticed my spell check was not working, and changed the below setting back to default. With this back to default it still worked OK and without any issues so that would be my recommendation as a better workaround/fix (disabling/restarting Edge then putting it back to default and restarting)

    edge://flags/#edge-show-feature-recommendations

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-05-30T07:50:13+00:00

    Thank you for this, and it does resolve the issue. However, I note that on my working install (HP Z2) this is set to default, and I have no issues….. Therefore, disabling this (on my Dell XPS 13) is essentially a workaround that supresses the issue and not a ‘fix’…

    That said, this option might actually be of benefit if it also supresses the nag windows which seem to have ramped up in the last couple of weeks….

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-05-30T06:23:00+00:00

    Thank you, it works!

    Enjoy!

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