Jon S. von Tetzchner
MaryPotTotally off topic, but I tagged my question a couple of days ago with #Vivaldi and didn't get any good answers. I hope you have one.
Why on earth is Vivaldi's on-board search engine when freshly installed Bing????
Geniusak
I searched the help for Bing and for Search Engines and did not find anything explaining it.
I did find a lot of users having big problems getting rid of Bing, though.
I'm not going to spend hours trying to find out why a shiney new browser, with history back to when Opera was a good thing, chooses to force users to use Bing.
Very disappointing, and the help section is a mess and half.
Good thing I didn't uninstall my other browser. 😞
@MaryPot changing the search engine is trivial, it takes two clicks. There's no forcing.
But if that's too much work for you, then I'm not sure vivaldi is the browser for you anyway.
There was a bug with default search engines a couple months back, but other than that nobody should be having any trouble with it.
Actually, based on problems users have had, there are at least 3 different places you can have Bing locked into the browser.
I'm Norwegian. I got the impression, wrongly, it seems, that the people behind the Vivaldi browser were of a similar mindset to young Opera. They aren't if they are making deals with companies like MS to preset a browser that snoops maybe more than Google does.
What other deals have they made with users' privacy, I wonder.
@MaryPot I've used it for quite a while, and I can assure you, there's no place it's locked in.
Search deals are how they manage to keep the browser free.
I never used the original opera, but it's many of the same people, including Jon, whose post we were talking under.
I get that you are a fan, and may have drank the cool-aid, but it took me minutes to see users having trouble getting RID of Bing. And, as I say, any company associated with MS has a taint of MS.
There are many other ways to earn money than cuddling up to big business, especially big business that is known for decades to "play" with the privacy of their customers/users.