Microsoft plans to simplify the convoluted Settings page in Edge

Microsoft recently unveiled plans to clean up the increasingly labyrinthine Settings page in its Edge browser.

First spotted by Windows Latest, you can see these plans for yourself if you head over to the official Microsoft 365 roadmap page and expand the description for the item labeled “Microsoft Edge: Elevating top settings and improving settings page navigability.”

The plan appears to include three distinct parts:

The first part will be “introducing quick access to the most used actions on the landing page of Edge Settings.”

The second part will be to “feature quick access to [the] most used actions” on “each densely populated page,” which will include the pages for Privacy, search, and services; Appearance; Cookies and site permissions; System and performance.

The third part will be for those same pages as well, where “each section will now click-through to its respective sub-settings (similar to a table of contents).”

All of this should have a beneficial clean-up effect on the Settings page, making it far easier to navigate as it won’t be bombarding you with tons of overwhelming information at every turn.

The new Settings page should start rolling out worldwide in October with general availability, but don’t be surprised if it takes longer before they appear in the stable version of Edge.

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