For what it's worth vertical tabs is currently 3rd most rated suggestion
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Read the whole article, it is weirdly quoted here.
It changed the name right after I posted. I swear I definitely did not make a silly typo.
There's a handy extension on both Firefox and Chromium browsers called Web Archives made by dessant / Armin Sebastian. You can right click on any URL and try to find cached copy on multiple services like Archive.org, Google cache and many more.
There is another cool extension from same dev called Search by Image that can search any image across multiple reverse image search engines.
There is no modification, it's just a handy shortcut, read about bangs here. You are not expected to use !g for all searches, only for those that you wish to search with Google. It's also possible to replicate this with browser search settings, DDG just has this built-in.
There is no modification, it just redirects you to the site
I have just added all the other engines I use in browser itself. Kind of even forgot about bangs.
Exactly. Those OS updates are most likely fixing / reinstalling Edge since it is either considered corrupted or to push newer version. Set different default browser, unpin it from taskbar and you are good to go.
All these "fixes" and "debloaters" in a long run most likely will cause problems.
Nonsense, Edge is a top tier Chromium browser. Vivaldi is another good Chromium option although I no longer use it. Chrome while a decent browser however is irrelevant in my eyes on any W10/W11 since Edge is part of OS.
Every day I use both Edge (only at work) and Firefox (home and work), both have pros and cons. I tried to switch from Firefox to Vivaldi less than 1 year ago, but there are some thing in Chromium based browsers that I did not like when compared to Firefox. Bookmark management was a big one (no tags).
Bangs is a cool DDG feature that redirects your query to another search engine in this case !g is Google
If it is due to policy, Edge should show expected setting greyed out and display message along the lines "your organization is managing this setting".
This sounds like some niche bug.
I suppose some people expect you should get royalties every time your voice appears anywhere so in their eyes he should be a millionaire from this gig or something ridiculous like that.