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Search engine in address bar and New-tab page
nemchik and Deleted thank you for this feedback. I will forward it on to the Search folks. Is there anything that Bing can do make you feel comfortable using their search engine as your default?
Thanks,
Elliot
Perhaps an alternative would be to have 2 more options in "Custom"
- Show Search with Bing (On / Off)
- Show Feeds (On / On Scroll / Off), to replace the current Show Feeds option which only does On / On Scroll.
allowing Edge's new tab experience to be customized down to blank page, but also allowing things address bar search doesn't do, like "Most visited sites" and "Image of the day", to be kept on as desired.
With respect to the search field in the new tab experience, in all my years using Chrome I've never gotten muscle memory built up for doing anything other than typing site title or search into address bar, since address bar has focus first, and type-ahead in address bar is faster than using "Most visited sites" since often you only have to hit one or two letters then Enter if you really do visit a site a lot! I find everything Chrome's tried in new tab experience a distraction, and I would love to see Edge allow users to tune distraction down a bit. Being able to turn the box off may also scratch the itch of the people who don't want to search with Bing.
(There are MANY Chrome extensions that blank the new tab page, by the way. But I don't think any particular extension can do Bing's "Most visited sites" and "Image of the day" for users who'd want to keep those... so being able to hide each part of Bing NTP, including the search box, should really be a feature of Bing NTP.)
