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David Rubino
Microsoft
MicrosoftTop feedback summary for December 3
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Why can't you just add support for other search providers on the New Tab page? Is it not as simple as it seems? You've got a great thing going here but forcing people to use Bing will drive people away from Edge. Please don't make the same mistake you did with the previous Edge.
jraff wrote:
Why can't you just add support for other search providers on the New Tab page? Is it not as simple as it seems? You've got a great thing going here but forcing people to use Bing will drive people away from Edge. Please don't make the same mistake you did with the previous Edge.Exactly, Google Chrome lets the NTP search engine to be Bing, Duckduckgo etc but Edge doesn't..
jraff
Although, the SE cannot be changed on the NTP (good thing Bing is so good) BUT... I can be changed to a preferred choice in the Address Bar. One can, also, make the Start-up page be whatever desired. Searching there rather than turning to the NTP and Bing, no matter how good it is.
Cheers,
Drew
Drew1903 wrote:Although, the SE cannot be changed on the NTP (good thing Bing is so good)
Good thing Bing is so good?
Not in this world
it's so much behind Google
HotCakeX wrote:
Good thing Bing is so good?
Not in this world
it's so much behind Google
That's a debatable topic. However what isn't debatable is that Microsoft has paid me nearly $200 in Amazon and Microsoft gift cards! I'm not ashamed, I can be bought.
HotCakeX wrote:I would want to set my own custom image as the background for NTP, not Bing images, also favorites folder need to have custom colors so user can set any color they want instead of all being yellow...
Custom folder colors would be amazing; however I would settle for just parity with the previous browsers. Walk before we run, etc.
I'm really not a fan of the new tab pages whatsoever - I never understood the need for them. Why should it look or act differently than the main tab page? Now it's just one more thing I have to configure, or troubleshoot why it doesn't look right. But yeah, if they're going to give us a "Custom" NTP option, really make custom and make it completely configurable, including the option to replicate the home page. And what ever happened to "about:blank"?
- It's a shame because I and countless others love the look of the NTP, including the Bing News and Image of the day. I wish I could just search with Google and not lose all the NTP features. 😔
- If you 'love ... Bing News and the image of the day' (which both come from Bing and not Google) why don't you give Bing a proper try instead of believing Google is always better?
I have gradually shown most of my clients that they can find everything they want much more easily and quickly with a few clicks and searches on Bing, without having to trawl through all the pinned adverts associated with the same content on Google. Currently the Microsoft Points tally up quite nicely from every Bing Search too!
