How to get the home button back in Edge

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Microsoft’s new Edge browser is sleek and minimalist — so minimalist that it no longer features a home button on the default toolbar. For many users, this probably isn’t an issue — I don’t know about you, but I probably haven’t hit the home button on a browser’s toolbar in 15 years.

But if you’re the type who likes a quick, one-touch way to get back to your homepage, the lack of a home button might be a little disconcerting. After all, if you really wanted a super-minimalist design, you’d probably just download Google Chrome or something.

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Well, here’s some good news: You can totally get the home button back, and you can also have it point to any page — not just your browser’s starting page.

Here’s how:

1. Open up the Edge browser and click the … button in the upper right corner, and then click Settings to open the Settings sidebar.

2. Scroll down to the bottom of the Settings sidebar and click View advanced settings.

3. At the top of the Advanced settings menu, you’ll see a toggle for Show the home button. Switch this toggle to On, and you should see the home button appear on your toolbar immediately. A text box will also appear. In this text box you can type in the URL of your actual start page, or you can type in any URL you want — it does not have to match the URL of your actual start page, which you can configure in the main Edge Settings menu.