Bing Has Taken Over!

[Philbeaux]

All of a sudden I can't search in Google ... but only in Vivaldi. Chrome works fine.

I can pull up Google but if I try to search it will switch over to Bing and all the results will display in Bing. The same applies if I type in something to search in the search bar in the upper right-hand corner of the browser. The results are displayed in Bing.

And I do have Google set up as the default engine.

[LonM]

@Philbeaux In your settings, can you double check that the URL for your search engine has not been set to google by accident?

[sam12587]

I've been fighting this since before Christmas. It's a virus or malware type thing. For me it's something called "mysearch" . Back up your bookmarks or favorite pages and clear out everything to try to clear out the infected temp file or cookie where its hiding. I'm running Vivaldi updates again to see if that helps. If that stuff doesn't work, I'd remove & reinstall the browser. Scans for infections I've run aren't seeing anything.
I have blockers installed to the point the browser is only goof for reading and I don't do much internet stuff on this machine that's fun or reckless so I cant figure out how I got it. I say this in case someone with the same problem has info that I haven't discovered yet.

[Ayespy]

Some adware installs itself in your profile. You can refresh your profile to test it.

[JonYork2]

@Ayespy said in Bing Has Taken Over!:

Some adware installs itself in your profile. You can [refresh your profile](https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/1038 to test it.

Would you happen to have a translation of that page in English?

I'm having this same problem and would love to know the solution.

[Ayespy]

@JonYork2 Keerist. Copy and past on this machine can sometimes really screw up. The reason you got a foreign language link (Turkish?) which has nothing to do with the subject of my reply is because the link copied and pasted improperly. I meant to send the user to instructions to refresh your profile.