With Chromium 97, the ability to remove a default search engine from the settings has been deleted as it was inconvenient to re-add. However, the removal has led to a new unexpected problem.
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Thanks to the end of the holiday season in the U.S., this was quite an eventful week in the world of Microsoft with news items ranging from CES to Windows 11, to Exchange Server Y2K22 bugs.
Chrome 97 will be arriving later today. While it features a notable enhancement to communication protocols, it also has a controversial Keyboard API change that is at odds with Apple and Mozilla.