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Evening all
Been a while since I posted or visited here so apologies in advance if this particular topic has been explored before or answered. So, been under a rock for a while and decided to make the jump from Windows 7 - 10.
My research tells me that MS Edge is pre built in to W10 and so decided, for the time being, to use it as my browser. I'm sure you can appreciate my immediate concern when upon using Edge for ahem 'normal' browsing, past 'private' browsing searches were being displayed right in front of me.
What I mean by the above is, Bing has a habit of displaying search history (private) by pressing just one keystroke of any letter that was originally typed in. Not very private that me thinks.
I have no option to change search provider as the option to deselect Bing is greyed out with no alternative, say Google. It's like MS is purposefully winding you up. Don't even get me started on deselecting 'auto form filling', 'suggested sites' ect as when I return into advanced settings, it's re selected itself.
What?!?
Deleting history and all that lark still continues to display it so it really does beg the question. Is MS Edge flawed or is this an isolated incident?
I am seriously considering jibbing it off and using Chrome instead. I've heard you can't even uninstall Edge as you have to edit the registry or do some magical workaround that involves taking ownership or something to that affect of a number of files associated with it.
So yeah, that's pretty much it. If anyone can shed some light on this I'd be really grateful.
Cheers.
Been a while since I posted or visited here so apologies in advance if this particular topic has been explored before or answered. So, been under a rock for a while and decided to make the jump from Windows 7 - 10.
My research tells me that MS Edge is pre built in to W10 and so decided, for the time being, to use it as my browser. I'm sure you can appreciate my immediate concern when upon using Edge for ahem 'normal' browsing, past 'private' browsing searches were being displayed right in front of me.
What I mean by the above is, Bing has a habit of displaying search history (private) by pressing just one keystroke of any letter that was originally typed in. Not very private that me thinks.
I have no option to change search provider as the option to deselect Bing is greyed out with no alternative, say Google. It's like MS is purposefully winding you up. Don't even get me started on deselecting 'auto form filling', 'suggested sites' ect as when I return into advanced settings, it's re selected itself.
What?!?
Deleting history and all that lark still continues to display it so it really does beg the question. Is MS Edge flawed or is this an isolated incident?
I am seriously considering jibbing it off and using Chrome instead. I've heard you can't even uninstall Edge as you have to edit the registry or do some magical workaround that involves taking ownership or something to that affect of a number of files associated with it.
So yeah, that's pretty much it. If anyone can shed some light on this I'd be really grateful.
Cheers.