How to know what is the URL of a webpage if it doesn't appear on the URL bar?

[bendqh1]

I am encountering a strange case were opening new tabs on a browser window on Microsoft Edge creates a news-like webpage without any URL in the URL bar.
I don’t think I ever came across such a phenomenon in nearly 25 years of using the web.

If I am not mistaken, in Mozilla Firefox, it’s possible to check the URL of a webpage via left clicking the mouse button and choosing “View Page Info”

How to know what is the URL of a webpage if it doesn’t appear on the URL bar? Especially in Microsoft Edge?

[bendqh1]

It may be possible to know it from a web browser’s development tool, under the tab “Network” this way:

[bendqh1]

One way to do it is probably

console.log(window.location.href)

the href can be omitted and it will give us the entire location object.

Credit to user:Makyen from Stack Overflow.

[James_Hibbard]

@bendqh1

I am encountering a strange case were opening new tabs on a browser window on Microsoft Edge creates a news-like webpage without any URL in the URL bar.

Are you sure you are not running in fullscreen mode?

[bendqh1]

Yes, I am sure. The URL bar is just empty, although console.log(window.location.href) outputs:

https://ntp.msn.com/edge/ntp?locale=en-US&title=New%20tab&dsp=1&sp=Bing&prerender=1

[James_Hibbard]

If I open that address in Edge it just takes me back to its new tab page (I guess that’s what “ntp” stands for).

Is it happening on any other pages?

[bendqh1]

It happens from any webpage – each time I open a new tab (in the same browser window).

What does “ntp” mean to you? I don’t have any opinion about what it means for me…

[James_Hibbard]

@bendqh1

What does “ntp” mean to you?

New Tab Page — the page that Edhe shows when you open a new tab.

If it only happens there, it might be some setting in Edge. I’ve never seen what you describe happen to me, I’m afraid.

Could you post a screen shot of what the problem looks like?

[James_Hibbard]

@bendqh1

I am encountering a strange case were opening new tabs on a browser window on Microsoft Edge creates a news-like webpage without any URL in the URL bar.

Hang on. You just mean this, right?

This is just the regular new tab page which appears when you prestt Ctrl + T.

Nothing unusual going on there.

You can customize it though:

How to Customize Microsoft Edge's New Tab Page

[bendqh1]

That’s exactly my problem…
It is a primary problem, for me at least, that a web browser does more than just web browsing…
It is a secondary problem for me that that Microsoft is “pushing” news to me which may divert me from a common task, let along, generally on topics I have no control on or surely can’t help with.

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