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Ok - This morning I opened Edge (w10) and when I clicked the X to close, it would not close. I tried to minimise and click close, still would not work. I can only close it via task manager or rebooting. Nothing has chnaged since last night, so no idea why it has happened. Is there a simple answer as in apps both uninstall and modify are grayed out.
The PC is mine, not a work one and is W10.
Keith
PS - Just tried with my w10 laptop, am able to close edge as normal. So have no idea why the desktop is playing up. Is there a solution?
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I had the same issue .
When i clicked on the 3 dots at top of screen and scrolled to the bottom of the pop up menu , at the very bottom it says "Close Microsoft Edge"
I clicked on this and it has been fine since .
Hope this helps .
I discovered how to close the Edge browser following trouble with it after the most recent Windows 11 update. Go to the three dots in the upper right corner of the Edge page and click on them. A drop-down menu will show up, and at the bottom of it you will see "Close Edge." I clicked on it and, yes! Edge finally closed. After doing that, clicking on the red "X" at the upper right corner once more started to work to close that browser page.
Larry's solution worked for me, but this just validates why Edge only has a worldwide market share of 14% for desktop browsers.
Nop, it does not close at all. I have to use Task Manager
Sadly, this did not work for me. I still have the problem.