How to add Bing AI Chat as default search engine?
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Does anyone know how to add Bing AI Chat as the default search? I currently have it in a web panel which works well but I'd prefer to access it with address bar search if possible.
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This particular search works only in Microsoft Edge.
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From the address bar or in general? Because I have it working in Vivaldi already, just not from the address bar.
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@Yonan What, exactly, is the page you have set up as a web panel?
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The Bing AI search chat.
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@Yonan And exactly what URL is that?
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@Yonan Well, that link doesn't work here, even when I am "signed in" to Bing. And every route I try to enter chatbot, it insists I must open it in Edge.
Normally, when you want to add a search to Vivaldi's list of searches, you right-click on the search box and select "add as a search" or whatever the phrase is. In that case, a URL will always be added to your list of searches.
I was going to see what happens when you do that in Bing AI, but apparently I can't get there from here. What it appears, however, is that Bing AI is not a URL, but an app. And apps can't be added to Vivaldi's list of searches. Only URLs.
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You need to change your browser to present as Edge and it'll work fine. There's an addon that does it just for that one page which was real handy but it was removed from the chrome store. Thankfully it still works, I just had to reenable it.
I did try messing with the parameters to find one that would work but no luck. A Vivaldi command chain might be able to do it somehow but I may end up just having to use it as a web panel if no one can figure it out. Here's hoping though because it would be real convenient, it's actually a really good service to have available.
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@Yonan I considered spoofing the User Agent but I'm not going to do that. And if you have already tried the "usual process" without any luck, I guess I can't help.
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No worries man, thanks for trying. Hopefully someone smarter than us manages it but I did a lot of poking around and it didn't seem like anyone was even asking.
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@Yonan I'm currently trying Vivaldi as my default desktop browser having had it as No. 2 for the past few years. That means I'm gradually figuring out more things. So, until seeing your post, I'd not really looked into web panels. But I just went to the Bing Chat home page, made Chat tab active and then right-click added to panel. Nice.
I'm using the Bing Chat For All Browsers extension to enable this (I already had this installed).
In terms of address bar you will have to make do with
b search expression
and then if you click the Chat tab it will additionally run the search through Chat.
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@Ayespy Try Bing Chat For All Browsers extension and it will work.
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@wintercoast It doesn't search for the search term you used though does it, you have to type it again in the Bing Chat textbox?
And yeah web panels can be really useful hey. I love so many of the features of Vivaldi from command chains such as "open new tab, paste URL from clipboard, and go to it" with one key and customizing context menus so they don't have things I'll never use and have new things I will use.
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@Yonan said in How to add Bing AI Chat as default search engine?:
@wintercoast It doesn't search for the search term you used though does it, you have to type it again in the Bing Chat textbox?
And yeah web panels can be really useful hey. I love so many of the features of Vivaldi from command chains such as "open new tab, paste URL from clipboard, and go to it" with one key and customizing context menus so they don't have things I'll never use and have new things I will use.
I tried the address bar search and clicking on the Chat tab did auto-run it. I didn't have to retype. Maybe it was like that initially? All this stuff is evolving quite quickly.
Keyboard shortcut for "paste and go" was one of the reasons I selected Opera and Vivaldi after leaving Firefox. Such a simple thing but it's amazing how useful it is. I don't know why the other browsers don't have it
Basically I like it when if I happen to be in a keyboard context I am able to do the next thin while still in a keyboard context. Ditto, if I happen to be in a mouse context.
I'm aware Vivaldi has lots of customsiations and I'll adopt more of them as the need arises or as I hang out in this forum and discover various tricks.
