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BING gets on your nerves
I have tried what I can to get Bing totally deleted from Edge, it always comes back irrelevant of what I do, so its back to Mozilla I guess
So I now got your issue. If you want to change your search engine on the NTP (New Tab Page) search bar, go to the address bar and search setting page (edge://settings/search), then go to "Search on new tabs uses search box or address bar" and select the option as "Address bar" from the dropdown menu and then whatever you search from anywhere will be searched on your preferred search engine.
If you want to remove content that gets loaded from MSN (Microsoft Network), go to the NTP Settings menu by clicking the gear icon on the top-right corner of the new tab page, select your page layout as custom and then under the content section, select the option as content off from the dropdown menu. You can even change other settings to make it look the way you want.
I hope that this will help you 🙂
Hi PhilC1904, you are welcome to the Microsoft Edge Insider Community Hub!
Can you please explain your issue further, I cannot understand what you mean by deleting Bing from MS Edge in the Original Post.
If you want to change your default search engine, go to settings > Privacy, Search and Services > Services > Address Bar and Search (edge://settings/search).
TheShaunSaw I have changed the preferences for search engines, deleted Bing from the list. entered google.com as the new tab address, regardless when I open a new Tab it is a Bing tab. I decided to leave firefox on the basis of too slow and too much RAM to operate, however the Edge is faster but it forces you to use Bing regardless of what you try. When I delete Edge also my windows updates fail so I have to reinstall to update windows, all a bit iffy in respect of freedom to use which browser you want without losing things like google,
So I now got your issue. If you want to change your search engine on the NTP (New Tab Page) search bar, go to the address bar and search setting page (edge://settings/search), then go to "Search on new tabs uses search box or address bar" and select the option as "Address bar" from the dropdown menu and then whatever you search from anywhere will be searched on your preferred search engine.
If you want to remove content that gets loaded from MSN (Microsoft Network), go to the NTP Settings menu by clicking the gear icon on the top-right corner of the new tab page, select your page layout as custom and then under the content section, select the option as content off from the dropdown menu. You can even change other settings to make it look the way you want.
I hope that this will help you 🙂
- Not only do they purposefully make as confusing as possible for users to quit bing, but they also force every user to have bing in the right click menu: there is absolutely no way to disable the "search in the sidebar with bing" context menu item. Microsoft is just always dishonest.
- Then theres me back to Firefox
The old saying says - Luke, use the Startpage! Use the Force! (to implement it via strong extension)
Use Startpage extension, of course. Startpage is using Google, but it cares for your safety & security.
Try to install it as default via startpage.com or search for its extension (it waits there to use it!).
But I'm not a "blade runner". Bing is present in context menu and it may be handy sometimes. It has its own panel on the right side! Good thing, really. Anyway, let everyone finds his way of doing things in Edge by himself (with a little helps from Edge Insiders chaps). 😉
