Browser Tips
Secret settings and the best extensions
EDGE
Access and tweak settings more easily
Compared with Chrome and Brave, the Settings pages in Edge have long been rather sprawling, making you scroll through dozens of options to find the one you want. The more features Microsoft added to the browser, the more packed and unwieldy these pages became.
Edge 136, released 1 May, finally fixes this problem by streamlining several Settings sections. When you open the browser’s Settings (type edge://settings in the address bar), you’re now greeted with a simplified Profiles page, which provides ‘Top settings’ shortcuts to important options in a row across the top. These include ‘Clear browsing data’, ‘Manage cookies’ and ‘Download location’ (for changing your default download folder).
However, the biggest improvement is to the ‘Privacy, search and services’ section (edge://settings/privacy), which was previously the messiest page. Again, this provides shortcuts to key settings such as ‘Typo protection’ and ‘Tracking prevention’ ( 1 in our screenshot), but goes further by organising all the section’s settings into concise categories.