All web browsers come with a set of internal URLs or addresses that users may open; these internal pages provide additional information, may be used to configure certain browser settings, for management purposes, or for other things.
The new Microsoft Edge comes with its own set of internal URLs; since it is based on Chromium, it should not come as a surprise that the majority resembles those of the Chromium core and other Chromium-based browsers such as Google Chrome, Vivaldi, or Opera.
Most browser makers change the protocol of internal pages and Edge is not different from those. You access internal pages with edge:// followed by a resource. One of the most convenient is edge://edge-urls/ as it displays a list of all resources that are available currently in the browser. While that is handy, the page lists links only and it is sometimes difficult to find out more about a page just by looking at the address.
The following resources are available in Microsoft Stable. Development versions of the browser may include additional resources.
For Debug
The following pages are for debugging purposes only. Because they crash or hang the renderer, they're not linked directly; you can type them into the address bar if you need them.
Now You: do you use any of these internal URLs?
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Would be nice if you could literally highlight the unique urls that only exist in Edge.
You’re talking about comparing every URI in every browser to see which ones Edge only has.
Why?
That’s a lot of work, and seems to me rather silly to think Martin should have done that or is going to do that.
Perhaps I’m missing something here?
That said, Wikipedia has lists of browser URIs you can study yourself if need be.
Uninstall this spy machine!
*Tested on my machine on windows 10 1909*
https://winaero.com/download.php?view.1835
Do you have any proof with examples that Edge is a so called “spy machine”?
Also, can you define what a “spy machine” specifically means to you?
Perhaps winaero.com could be a “spy machine”?
Hmm, perhaps all web technology could be a “spy machine”.
Also, if you’re just talking about Microsoft’s telemetry and you don’t trust what they state about that, then fine, but I wouldn’t call that feature a “spy machine”, that is until I learn otherwise.
edge-urls is a good one to have bookmarked on the bookmarks bar. Also settings/clearBrowserData, as with any chromium-like browser.
Thanks for this Martin.
These links are also called a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). There are also URI pages for some extensions: extension://*
There’s lists of other browser URIs on Wikipedia.
I bookmark my most used URIs in Edge, Opera, and Firefox.
In Edge (which is my main browser now), I just use edge://downloads, edge://extensions, edge://settings, and I use edge://favorites as my Home page so I see that page when the browser first opens.
Beyond that, here’s some other handy Edge tweaks/tips some of you may like:
• Use the “Blank Tab” extension to make edge://newtab completely blank (no Bing search).
• Under edge://settings/searchEngines, enter a new search engine and enter “NULL” (or a URI) for the URL and choose that, and then Edge’s web search feature is gone, which means no Bing search, which I like.
Ghacks post an article about Firefox using ONE site to check for captive portals (which is BENEFICIAL for anyone using a mobile device [laptop, notebook computer, tablet, etc.]) & the world is coming to an end. Suddenly Firefox is evil.
Ghacks posts an article about Chromium Edge using a literal crapton of sites that it contacts remotely, & … literal crickets, no one says anything. SMH.
Where’s the posts calling Microsoft evil … I don’t see any, there’s only 3 comments (it may be alot more when Ghacks allows my comment to exit censorship HELL, since my posts are normally delayed by a half a day, if they are not censored to hell, or deleted entirely).
Pathetic.
@notanon: That’s because those are internal URI, like FF’s “about:config”. Those are not hosts that Edge is contacting remotely. Dude…
How do you block all of that shit on a pc?