How to Remove Widgets Visible on the Edge Toolbar

This practical guide walks through how to remove widgets visible on the Edge toolbar, explains the main requirements, and highlights common issues that may appear along the way.

1. Hide the Edge menu bar widget icon

If you don't want a widget icon to show up on the menu bar, right-click on the icon and choose Move to the menu from the list displayed.

Then the widget icon will be moved to the main menu of the Edge browser. You click on the 3-dot icon on the browser and will see the utility for users to access and use.

In case you want to bring the widget icon back to the browser bar , click on the icon in the main menu, then right-click then click Move to the toolbar .

You can continue to perform the above operation with other utilities.

2. Turn off gadgets on Edge completely

If you don't want add-ons to work in your browser when you don't need them, you can turn off the operation . And then the widget icon is not displayed on the toolbar either.

We access the interface to manage the utility installed in Edg browser. At this interface you will see all the utilities installed on the browser. We just need to turn off the add-ons that are being installed. The widget icon on the toolbar will then disappear.