BING is crap

It's triggered by a Javascript onmouseover() command on some sites. Turn off Javascript.

Irritating piece of s*it isn't it? I especially appreciate how it comes with IE and if you don't remove it, it tries to hijack every google search that you do. I don't even use IE anymore; always use Firefox if I can.

One trick that sometimes seems to work is to click "Stop" on the browser the millisecond the text on a page has finished loading. Util they find out more people are doing that and load the crap first.

Maybe some day they'll get sued by the company that had the name Bing since the year 1866:

They make carburetors for things like BMW motorcycles.

Sure, but some manufacturer sites don't work without it anymore because the script kiddies have made it into the marketing departments :-(

Surf with Opera and set its default to disable javascript and embedded content (i.e., flash) as well as to discard all cookies when closing the browser. Once that's set, you have the option on a site-by-site basis of permitting javascript or flash or persistent cookies.

Much less junk (no Bing popups-- first I'd heard of this little annoyance) and also less vulnerability to a drive-by infection when hitting a new site.

I haven't noticed any "Bing" problems when using Firefox, but I block everything initially, then allow what I want. ...Jim Thompson

Bing Is No Good (recursive definition).

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The problem with this approach is you'll run into sites that need Javascript to run right, or sites that you'll want to have Javascript. You can't have a unique browswer setting for every web page you hit. That's 100% stupid. Oh, we are talking Microsoft here, my mistake...

If you truly want to get pissed off, try sticking with IE6. In IE6, you can't even turn Bing off. You MUST upgrade. And of course, when you do that, (like IE8), some sites that used to work fine, no longer do. And then, IE8 is "much" slower to initialize and run.

I'd roll back if a) it weren't for Bing, and b) if rolling back didn't have even worse consequences!!

Thanks John!! Now that I think about it, you've inadvertently made me feel pretty good about a project we're working on. It's obvious our idea is a game-changer for a certain industry, but everyone seems to be "radio-silent" about our solution. (What they should be doing is lining up to take it off our hands!)

Your comments remind me that big companies OFTEN make stupid mistakes! Like trying to ignore the 800-pound gorilla in the corner!

Guess I'll sleep well tonight....!!!

You could disable that behavior by disabling javascript globally, or just on that page with firefox and the noscript extension.

Better yet, turn away from the dark side and use google.

Yup. This should be the first thing installed after the browser:

I'm sure MS thinks of it as:

BING Is Not Google

I do use Firefox and google. But some sites insist on popping up the bing box. I guess I'll just bail as soon as I see that happen. I bet Microsoft is paying them to do this, to promote Bing.

BING = Bing Is Not Google.

John

Modern browsers allow you to turn it on only for selectred sites.

Perhaps the OP doesn't know that internet explorer isn't a modern browser?

I also have been seeing this junk more often; thought it was just me..

MS abomination, moving mouse over such text is a nightmare.

Firefox, NoScript, Adblock Plus, OptimizeGoogle, and a bit of playing around with selective blocking of cookies make it a largely painless experience. And not just for Google either.

'internet explorer' is a toy for bad programmers to show how bright they aren't. There is all kinds of crap in 'internet explorer' that is less than useless.