Cool Shortcut Tips to Make Your Edge Browsing Experience Easy

The new Microsoft Edge browser for Windows 10 is a total welcome upgrade to the old Internet Explorer. The Edge browser provides various features such as the built-in Cortana and beautiful reading mode that helps the users improve their browsing experience. Here are some great quick shortcuts that you can do with the new Windows 10 browser so that you'll enjoy browsing more.

Ask Cortana

Because of the awesome powers of Cortana, the Edge browser can show you some additional information in a slide-in panel, which means you don't need to leave your current page in order to do a quick search.

To do this, right-click on any term you want more info on, then click Ask Cortana. A Bing search will slide in from the right, which shows you images and other information where available.

Enable Reading Mode

Turning on the Edge's Reading Mode will help you remove distracting ads on an article you're reading. The Reading Mode gets rid of most graphics on a site, and styles the text of your article in an easy-to-read font and layout.

To turn it on, press the book icon at the upper-right area of the screen. Alternatively, you can also press the [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [R] keys. This will make your article now front and center. If you want to turn it off, just press the same icon again.

Open an InPrivate Tab

This feature can be helpful, especially if you share your PC with other people. There are times when you don't want them to know what sites you've visited lately. Browsing in an InPrivate Tab prevents Edge from storing the webpages you've visited in it's history.

If you want to have more browsing privacy, click the three-dotted menu button on the upper-right hand corner of the screen. Next, select the New InPrivate window option; you can also achieve this by using the [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [P] keyboard shortcut.

Bookmark or Favorite a Page

We all have that urge to bookmark a beautiful or interesting page or site so that we can revisit it later on. With Microsoft Edge, all your bookmarks are collated in an easily accessible panel, which helps you find the page you're looking for in no time.

To do this, tap the star icon beside the URL bar on top of the screen or you can press [Ctrl] + [D] on your keyboard. When a dialog screen appears, click the Add button to save the site to your favorites. To view the list of your bookmarks, tap on the three-horizontal line button (beside the star), and then tap on any of your favorite links that you'd like to go back to.