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To configure Edge to not display web content, this can be achieved via group policy as shown below.
- Launch Group Policy
- Navigate through the following paths as shown below
"Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Microsoft Edge"Double click and Disable the “Allow web content on a New Tab”
Note: This can also be achieved via the registry settings by navigating to the following path.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\MicrosoftEdge\ServiceUI
To Allow web content on a new tab page. You can either AllowWebContentOnNewTabPage DWORD by performing the following below.
– delete = Enable
– 0 = Disable
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