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Juergen_Soltau
Iron Contributor
Apr 09, 2019

unable to change search engine for the address-bar

I tried to change the standard search engine of the address-bar to Google, but failed: Edge uses always Bing, despite 'Google' is the search engine marked as default in the settings! Even when I del...
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jessemMSFT
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May 02, 2019

Hi, I am a dev on Edge and I'm gathering more information about this issue.


If you see this, do you mind posting what both edge://settings/search and  edge://settings/searchEngines say?

 

One suspicion we have is that this has to do with the residing country. If you can relay this information as well, that would be helpful.

 

Thanks so much for helping.

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Jonathan Lee
Copper Contributor
Aug 13, 2019

jessemMSFT I'm seeing a similar issue -- today address bar searches with Google are redirecting to Bing (eg. see the auto-generated icon). After testing, it seems the {google:baseURL} variable is getting replaced with "https://www.bing.com/".

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    jessemMSFT
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    Aug 13, 2019

    Jonathan Lee 

     

    Thank you! We're on top of it and should be fixed in today or tomorrow's build.

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      Drew1903
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      Aug 13, 2019

      jessemMSFT 

      Jess,

      It IS, indeed, (already) fixed as of today, Version 78.0.246.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit)

      Cheers,
      Drew

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