How to Make Google Your Homepage in Microsoft Edge

To make Google your homepage in Microsoft Edge, open Settings, select Start, home, and new tab page, choose Open these pages under When Edge starts, and add https://www.google.com. Edge then opens Google each time it starts. To make the Home button open Google too, turn on Show home button on the toolbar on the same screen, choose Enter URL, and type the same address.

These steps work in the current Microsoft Edge desktop browser on Windows 11, Windows 10, and Mac. Windows 10 reached end of support on October 14, 2025, but Edge uses the same settings there. The Edge app on iPhone and Android has different settings and isn’t covered here.

Using Safari on a Mac instead? Follow the steps to make Google your homepage in Safari on a Mac.

Before You Start

Edge has two settings that people call the homepage. The startup page is what opens when you launch Edge. The Home button page is what opens when you click the house icon on the toolbar. Microsoft treats them as separate settings, so set both if you want Google in both places.

A few other things to know first:

• The menu name varies. Microsoft’s own pages call the settings section Start, home, and new tab page in one place and Start, home, and new tabs in another. Both names lead to the same screen.
• Each Edge profile has its own settings. If you switch between profiles, such as Personal and Work, repeat the steps in each one. The profile picture in the top-right corner shows which one you’re using.
• Work and school computers may be locked. Your organization can set these pages for you. See the troubleshooting section if a control is grayed out.

Open Google When Edge Starts

1. Open Edge and select Settings and more (the three dots) in the top-right corner, then select Settings.
2. Select Start, home, and new tab page in the left menu. You can also type edge://settings/startHomeNTP in the address bar and press Enter to go straight there. If you don’t see the left menu, make the window wider or select the menu button next to Settings.
3. Find the When Edge starts section at the top.
4. Select Open these pages.
5. Select Add a new page, type https://www.google.com, and select Add. Google now appears in the list of pages.

6. If other pages are already in the list, remove any you don’t want. Every page in the list opens in its own tab at startup.

These labels match Microsoft’s Edge startup settings guide. The other two choices are Open the new tab page and Continue where you left off, which reopens the tabs from your last session. If Google is already open in a tab, the Use all open tabs button adds every open tab to the list in one step, so close any tabs you don’t want first.

Make the Home Button Open Google

The Home button is a house icon next to the address bar. If you don’t see one, it is turned off, and the first two steps below turn it on.

1. Stay on the Start, home, and new tab page screen and find the Home button section.
2. Turn on Show home button on the toolbar. The house icon appears to the left of the address bar.
3. Select Enter URL instead of New tab page.
4. Type https://www.google.com and select Save if a Save button appears.

These steps follow Microsoft’s home page article. On Windows, you can also press Alt + Home to open your home page in the current tab, a shortcut Microsoft lists in its Edge keyboard shortcuts page.

If you also use Firefox, it keeps its own setting; here is how to change your home page on Firefox.

To keep other sites one click away below the address bar, you can also show the favorites bar in Microsoft Edge.

Confirm It Worked, or Undo It

Close every Edge window, then open Edge again. Google should load in the first tab. Then click the house icon next to the address bar. It should also take you to Google.

To undo the change, go back to the same settings screen. Choose Open the new tab page under When Edge starts, and either set the Home button back to New tab page or turn off Show home button on the toolbar.

Use Google for Searches and New Tabs

Setting Google as your homepage does not change the search engine in the address bar. Edge keeps using Bing there until you change it:

1. Go to Settings > Privacy, search, and services.
2. Select Search and connected services, then Address bar and search.
3. Choose Google from the Search engine used in the address bar menu.

If Google isn’t in the list, Microsoft’s search engine article says to search with Google first, then check the list again. For more detail, read about setting Google as the default search engine in Edge.

New tabs are a different matter. Edge has no built-in setting that lets you replace its new tab page with Google. The startup page only applies when Edge launches, so opening a new tab still shows Edge’s own new tab page. The Home button and Alt + Home are the quickest ways back to Google from any tab. You can also tidy that page by removing frequently visited sites from the new tab page.

Some extensions in the Microsoft Edge Add-ons store claim to replace the new tab page with a site of your choice. They aren’t made by Microsoft, so check who publishes one, which permissions it asks for, and what reviewers say before you install it.

Troubleshooting

• Edge still opens the MSN or new tab page. The startup option is still set to open the new tab page. Switch it to Open these pages and check that Google is in the list.
• Edge reopens your old tabs instead. The startup option is set to Continue where you left off. Change it to Open these pages.
• Google opens with an error. Check the address in the list for a typo. It should read https://www.google.com. Remove the wrong entry and add it again.
• The settings are grayed out. On a work or school computer, an administrator can set the startup pages and home page by policy. Microsoft’s policy documentation says users can’t change the home page address when that policy is on, and that it applies to managed or domain-joined computers. Ask your IT department.
• Your homepage keeps changing back. An extension may be changing it. Some extensions can change browser settings such as the search engine and new tab page. Select Extensions next to the address bar, then Manage extensions, and turn off or remove any extension you don’t recognize. Microsoft’s extensions article has the full steps. If that doesn’t help, run a full scan with Windows Security.
• There is no house icon. The Show home button on the toolbar switch is off. Turn it on.
• The setting works on one computer but not another. Edge can sync a group of data called Settings when you sign in, but Microsoft doesn’t say which settings it includes, so check the startup and Home button settings on each computer.
• The menus don’t match these steps. Update Edge, then look again. Here is how to update Microsoft Edge to the latest version.

The steps for installing extensions in Microsoft Edge also cover turning off or removing one.

Frequently Asked Questions

Next Step

Once Google opens at startup and from the Home button, change the address bar search engine as well so that searches you type at the top of Edge go to Google too.