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Dev channel update to 80.0.320.3 is live
Microsoft Teams web still hangs the browser consistently. Once opened, most interactions with the browser stop working. Reported several versions ago.
A restart/restore of the browser after unexpected end only re-opens 3 windows. Other windows seem to be in a cache somewhere since the Cluster Tab Manager extension finds them but trying to open them brings up a white window. Killing the browser again from Task Manager and reopening will restore the windows 2nd time around.
Thankfully, the new tab display now correctly display's the MSN news articles. Sadly, there is still no option to use your default search engine instead of Bing (which is of little help in the UK).
Julian_Knight for the windows not being restored properly or being restored to a blank white square, we believe this issue only affects windows that are minimized, and it came from upstream Chromium. Until the fix gets in, making sure your windows don't get minimized should help prevent this.
Thanks for the response Josh. Even with the issues, I'm still using it as my day-to-day browser which doesn't garner higher praise than that
Julian_Knight
Hi Julian,
Let me toss this at you to ponder. The NTP won't change, BUT, the Start-up page can assigned a search engine site of your choice. I have mine set to Bing.com; it's ok within Canada. Anyway, maybe you can make such an approach work for you or at least help out a bit.
Cheers,
Drew
Thanks Drew but the forced use of Bing with all of the issues and baggage it brings is a major turn-off for anyone interested in privacy and for the majority of enterprises which are Microsoft's traditional main market.
Any deployment for systems I control will require the news view to be turned off because of this. A shame because it could be useful otherwise.
This is clearly Microsoft trying to artificially drive traffic to Bing. Whereas they should be concentrating on making Bing more useful, especially outside the US where search results are appalling in comparison even to services like DuckDuckGo and StartPage.com.
Julian_Knight
We'll have to agree to disagree. As a Bing Insider & user, sounds like our perception of, attitude towards and feelings about Bing differ. You think negatively regarding Bing whilst, I think well of it. And more good stuff keeps coming to it as time goes along.
Cheers,
Drew
Drew1903 wrote:Let me toss this at you to ponder. The NTP won't change, BUT, the Start-up page can assigned a search engine site of your choice. I have mine set to Bing.com; it's ok within Canada. Anyway, maybe you can make such an approach work for you or at least help out a bit.
I think honestly it's time for Microsoft Edge to step up their game and let users change the new tab page search engine too.
Google allows that! Google chrome even sets the whole theme of the new tab page to the search engine so like if you choose bing, the new tab page will get the Bing theme and so on.
so there is no reason why Microsoft shouldn't do the same.
