How to Show the Favorites Bar in Microsoft Edge

To show the Favorites Bar in Microsoft Edge, press Ctrl+Shift+B, and the bar appears just below the address bar with your saved sites on it. If you want it up all the time rather than only on new tabs, right-click the bar and choose Show favorites bar, then Always, or set the same option in the Appearance settings. Each method takes only a few seconds.

Show the favorites bar with the keyboard shortcut

The quickest way is the toggle shortcut:

1. Open Microsoft Edge.
2. Press Ctrl+Shift+B.
3. The favorites bar appears below the address bar.

Pressing the same keys again hides it. Using this shortcut also switches the bar to a permanent show or hide state rather than the default new-tab-only behavior.

Set the favorites bar to always show

If Edge only shows the bar when you open a new tab, change the visibility mode:

1. Right-click an empty part of the favorites bar.
2. Hover over Show favorites bar.
3. Choose Always.

This is the most direct way to lock the bar in place on every page.

Use the Appearance settings

You can set the same option from the settings page:

1. Type edge://settings/appearance in the address bar and press Enter.
2. Under the toolbar options, find Show favorites bar.
3. Choose your preferred mode.

Edge offers three modes for the favorites bar:

• Always keeps the bar visible on every page.
• Never hides it everywhere.
• Only on new tabs shows it only on the new tab page (the default).

Add and arrange your favorites

Once the bar is visible, add the sites you use most:

1. Open the page you want to save.
2. Drag the address from the address bar onto the favorites bar, or select the star icon in the address bar and save the page to the Favorites bar folder.
3. Drag items along the bar to reorder them, and right-click any item to rename or remove it.

Shorter names let more sites fit, so trimming long titles helps when the bar fills up.

If the bar still will not appear

If the bar is set to Always but you still cannot see it, make sure Edge is not in full-screen mode. Press F11 to leave full screen, then check the bar again. An extension that customizes the toolbar can also interfere, so disabling recently added extensions one at a time can help pin down the cause.

Moving your favorites to Chrome

Edge keeps its favorites separate from other browsers. If you switch to Chrome, you can export your Edge favorites to an HTML file and import them. See how to export bookmarks from Edge and how to import bookmarks into Chrome for each step.

If Chrome is where your bookmarks end up, TrueBookmark is a Chrome extension that backs up your bookmarks when you install it, lets you save a fresh backup in one click, and automatically takes a safety backup before any risky change, so an accidental change to your bar is recoverable from an earlier version. It does not run in Edge, but it is useful to know about once you are working in Chrome.