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My greatest qualm about this and the old Edge was that it forced me to use Bing. I don't use Cortana to browse the internet out of the same frustration. Honestly speaking, I don't see this browser being any more successful if it doesn't drop Bing and quit forcing people to use it in their Browsers. It's the Achilles Heel of any and all of Microsoft's attempts to make a series browser.
I also think you guys could learn a thing or two from the Brave browser with how it has an adblocker preinstalled that only blocks malicious ads and potential malware.
Bing can be changed it is not a big deal, go to settings, advanced then change the browser default, I personally use duckduckgo and with Edge moving over to Google browser kernel, duckduckgo is where I will stay. Not sure how long Edge will allow this, they have probablty already disabled it but that was an option. Firefox is great and can be configured to your needs, that coupled with duckduckgo gives the choice back to you not Goggle or Microsoft. ThatsSoWitty
- New Edge is just another chrome skin so I am sticking with Firefox
tekweb that actually does nothing to change what browser or search engine Cortana or the new Edge uses. My default browser is Brave and Cortana still brings up the old Edge. The new Edge doesn't have the option to change the search engine yet. Until it does, I'm not sold and won't even consider telling anyone about it since it doesn't fix or change any of the problems I had with the old Edge.
Yes, if Cortana is not used and it keeps bring up the old Edge browser seeting that would require a tweak in the registry which for novices I do not recommend. In my insider copy of Edge it does but really, I cannot see going over to Google Chromium as a solution. I will deactivate Edge once is adopts Chromium fully. Stick with what you are comfortable with is the best litmus test.ThatsSoWitty
