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Notepad now has "Search with Bing" in its Edit menu and it can't be changed to another search engine.



And a "Search Bing in Sidebar" context menu option when selecting text.

And the default Chromium keyboard shortcut for searching selected text with your default search engine has been hardcoded to open Bing.

And the new tab page searchbar takes an extra step to have it not search Bing when you have configured a different default search engine.

And recently they added a neat search button in browser console events. Unfortunately it only does Bing, and news articles about Amazon worker strikes are not helpful when debugging web worker errors....

There's a lot of good stuff happening with this browser, but I'm definitely getting close to my breaking point.


There's nothing good happening on edge. The only thing happening are those sorts of things.

It's also funny how for example they still manage to get basic things wrong, like a smooth and instantaneous gui, good design (made to improve user experience, rather than cross-selling), etc.


That is brazen and repulsive. I cannot possibly imagine a "Search with MSN" menu item on the Windows XP Notepad.


God for some reason I just hate these "features" that are designed to push Bing and Ads.

I still remember they had to kill cortana because the implementation was universally hated by people.




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