IT House January 20 news, Google in the previous Chrome 97 version to remove the ability to allow users to delete the browser's default search engine, triggering user protests, Google promised to restore the option in the browser settings UI. After a long wait, we finally saw a return to the feature in Chrome 99 Canary.
Friends who have recently updated to Chrome 97 may have noticed that search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo and Ecosia that exist in the browser cannot be removed by default. As shown in the image above, after clicking the "three-dot" menu icon, you can only see the two options of "Set as Default" and "Edit".
Google employee Justin Donnelly explained that it was just a bug in Chrome 97. This change was made to avoid accidental removal of the built-in search engine, not to prevent the search engine from being hijacked.
IT Home understands that in another related Chrome bug report, it also mentioned that "it is too easy to remove the default search engine": "Some friends have used deletion as a solution to prevent unnecessary changes to the default search engine, so we should continue to support it now." However, to avoid accidental deletion, Chrome will still display a confirmation dialog when trying to delete a preset search engine in the future. ”
If you're already using the latest Chrome 99 Canary, try typing chrome://settings/ searchEngines in the address bar and jumping straight to it, then you'll see the "Delete Options" as shown above. Interestingly, this change has also affected third-party browsers such as Microsoft Edge, Opera, Sogou, and QQ based on Chromium.
According to the plan, Google will push the official version of Chrome 98/99 in early February/March this year.