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up to you. Sharing will improve suggestions that are
presented to you by Edge, but it’s by no means an
essential feature.Using the Edge browser
Once everything is set up you’ll arrive at the Home
page, which looks not hugely dissimilar to the classic
Google variant. Enter a search into the main bar and
you’ll be whisked off to the far corners of the internet.
Tapping the microphone icon allows voice search,
while the square with a line running through it will
open the built-in QR reader.
There are a few other options worth knowing
about, especially if you already use Edge on your
Windows 10 PC. In the top right corner, you’ll see a
Star icon with three lines sticking out of its right side.
Tap this and it opens up a new page with several
icons across the top. From left to right they represent
Favourites (bookmarks), Reading list, Books (a new
feature arriving soon), History, and Downloads.
Tapping the X on the far right will bring you back
to the Home page. Along the bottom of the screen
are a few more icons worthy of your attention. The
three dots in the far right give you access to your
account, settings, plus the ability to quickly open
new standard tabs or private ones.
Next to this is an icon with one rectangle on top
of another. This shows you all of the tabs currently
open in the browser, separating them into Standard
and Private sections.
The other main icon resembles a mobile phone
with an arrow pointing out of its side. This is a clever