

The options and settings within Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge for Android are almost the same. Within the home screen or any website page, you can select from a wide variety of page-level options and browser-level settings. Most of the Settings and Options are hidden under the options menu icon. Edge Android also supports the option to enable or disable the swipe navigation within the browser. Using the Microsoft Edge Android navigation, you can quickly flow between website pages at ease. The Edge Android forward and backward navigation command buttons are located within the bottom menu bar, available at your fingertips. The navigation menu within the Edge for Android is quite accessible as compared to Google chrome. I found top stories more annoying because it’s swamped with celebrity news than any useful stuff. Google Chrome’s suggested articles are more relevant than Microsoft Edge’s top stories. Unlike Chrome, there is no way to customize the stories apart from disabling them from the Page Layout option. You can read through the entire news with one tap and switch back to the home screen easily. It displays all the top news stories based upon your location and interest. Microsoft News powers the top stories within the Microsoft Edge Android.


Using the Page Layout option, you can always enable or disable these top sites section within the Edge browser homepage. You can also remove selected top sites from the list by tap-and-hold on icons to get more options. These top site icons automatically change over time based on your browser usage and start reflecting the sites you have visited the most. The Microsoft Edge for Android is embedded with the top site icons and shortcut links on the homepage. The image and voice search may request additional permissions to device storage and microphone. You can even copy-paste OR enter the website URL directly in the search bar to launch a website. You can do an image search and voice search along with the traditional text or keyword search using the search bar. However, you can always change the search engine in Edge Android. By default, the search bar works in (Microsoft’s search engine). The Microsoft Edge for Android has a search bar embedded on the homepage that helps quickly search. Learn more about custom homepage layout in Edge Android. If you’re a minimalistic person who loves a clean interface as I do, then turning off all the elements in the custom layout is suggested.
