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josh_bodner
Former Employee
Nov 05, 2019

Dev channel update to 80.0.320.3 is live

UPDATE 3:  320.5 has been released with the fix for Netflix not working.     UPDATE 2:  320.4 has been released with the fix for the Task Bar icons issue.  The Netflix issue is expected to be fix...
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Drew1903
Silver Contributor
Nov 07, 2019

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

  

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Julian_Knight
Copper Contributor
Nov 07, 2019

Drew1903 

 

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.

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    Drew1903
    Silver Contributor
    Nov 07, 2019

    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

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      Julian_Knight
      Copper Contributor
      Nov 08, 2019

      Drew1903 are you UK based?

       

      I'm an enterprise architect and at least once or twice a year I do tests between the major search engines. Bing does not produce the level and quality of results that the other do. This is not an opinion, I really don't care which is used (well other than privacy concerns which is something separate).

       

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        Drew1903
        Silver Contributor
        Nov 08, 2019

        Julian_Knight 

        Julian, I am in Calgary.

        Cheers,
        Drew

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