

It took Microsoft until version 102, which is the latest version available through the Canary branch, to ship the change. Google brought back the ability to remove default search engines in version 99. “Initially Edge received this change from upstream Chromium, but Google restored the option to remove default search engines in Chrome 99, so I do not understand why Microsoft has not restored this option in Edge yet, not even in the Dev and Canary versions (which are already at version 101),” said Varela in March 2022.Īlso Read: PlayStation Gamers Will Soon Start Getting Ads In Free-To-Play Games: Report In response to that post from March 2022, Varela added some insight. That behaviour changed at some point, which was flagged up on Reddit.Īlso Read: WhatsApp Now Supports Group Voice Calls With Up to 32 Participants Previous versions of the browser allowed users to delete default search engines in settings. SNormally, if you want to uninstall an application in Windows 11 or 10, you just navigate to Settings->Apps->Apps & features, locate the name of. This is not new functionality for Microsoft Edge. The change was spotted by Leo Varela, who shared screenshots of the new menu browser on Reddit. Until recently, it was possible to set different search engines as the default, but it was not possible to delete sites from the list of defaults to choose from, reports Windows Central.

However, once the browser reaches version 9x.x.xxx.x, you'll need to update the path to 9 with the wildcard.Microsoft’s Edge Canary has reportedly restored the option to delete default search engines. So, in the path, we're using the number "8" with a wildcard "*" to access the folder no matter the 8x.x.xxx.xx version you have installed.

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