Microsoft Edge browser began crashing for customers who had chosen Google as their default search engine. The crashes went on for round 4 hours earlier than Microsoft mounted it. This problem solely affected customers who had Google chosen as their default engine. The difficulty was affecting customers on each MacOS and Home windows, in keeping with experiences. Microsoft acknowledged the difficulty, and instructed a workaround of turning off search ideas whereas it labored on a repair.
As per a report by The Verge, the browser began crashing when customers typed into the tackle bar. This appeared to solely have an effect on customers who had chosen Google as their default search engine, and never others. If Edge customers switched the default browser to Bing, Microsoft’s personal search engine, the crashes didn’t happen, in keeping with the report.
In a tweet just a few hours later, Microsoft introduced that it had resolved the difficulty. Thanking customers for his or her persistence, it stated that customers may shift again to their authentic browser settings on Edge, and to achieve out to Microsoft if any crashes had been nonetheless occurring.
Earlier than Microsoft has resolved the difficulty and customers had been complaining concerning the crashes, Microsoft had supplied its customers a momentary resolution through a tweet. It had requested customers experiencing hassle to show off search ideas through edge://settings/search. On testing this, The Verge stated that it labored and solved the issue if Google was set because the default search engine.
Though Microsoft mounted the difficulty rapidly, it didn’t supply a cause as to why it had occurred within the first place. The crashes began at round four:30am IST (7pm ET). In the meantime, Edge customers had been fast to tweet out their theories over why solely customers with Google as default browser on Edge had been being affected. “Is that this a conspiracy by Google to get you to make use of Chrome or by MS to get you to make use of Binge? I am sure it might solely be one among these two prospects,” tweeted a person in response to Microsoft’s preliminary tweet.
