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Can't change the country setting in Edge/Bing

When I open Edge and go to the homepage, it automatically defaults to cn.bing (the Chinese version). This means the homepage is entirely in Chinese, and the search results are set up for China, as well. The settings for the app are English. I downloaded it from the Microsoft US website and re-installed it multiple times after clearing my browser data and cookies. Even so, it opens up to the Chinese homepage every time. This makes it completely useless as a search engine. I would like to have an alternative to Google Chrome, but thanks to this issue, Edge is not it.

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it is impossible to set Edge in English if you are in China on a windows PC , all the work arounds suggested never work , MSN UK/USA will not display at all in Edge on Windows or Mac if use Edge . Works fine on Safari on Mac with VPN , never on Edge.
this has been happening for over 2 years . Microsoft cannot say they dont know about it. It is not a glitch it is a deliberate policy setting to comply with Chinese rules.
Microsoft just dont have the balls to say so .

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I Switched to Firefox i am tired of trying to fix Edge

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Castorix31 answered

If I follow this : How to Change Your Home Page in Microsoft Edge
And I set www.google.com as Homepage, it works for me (french OS)


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YuZhou-MSFT answered

Hi @TonyCotto-0595

You can try the following two steps to change your homepage and search engine if you're using Edge Chromium:

  1. You can navigate to edge://settings/search and set Search engine used in the address bar to Google as you wish.

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  2. You can navigate to edge://settings/appearance and set http://www.google.com/ in the textbox under Customize toolbar if you want to use google as your homepage. Click Save to save the change.

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