Bing Chat was exclusive to Microsoft Edge until now, but that has changed due to an interesting move by another browser. Vivaldi this first browser The browser that works with GPT-4 goes beyond Microsoft by adding compatibility with Bing Chat.

The funny thing is that this is not something that was promoted by Microsoft. Instead, the folks behind Vivaldi have chosen a simple trick to allow Bing Chat to work in your browser.

To understand this, you have to consider that Bing Chat doesn’t work in other browsers for the simple reason that Microsoft artificially limited it. Simply Bing Chat detects that the browser is not Edge and blocks its use. But this is very easy to get around.

Bing Chat is coming to more browsers

Bing Chat has been working smoothly since Vivaldi version 6.1. They explain from Vivaldi that the browser will behave like Microsoft Edge when we visit this tool.

This Vivaldi update is available for both desktop and Androidso if we don’t want to use Microsoft Edge we can use Vivaldi to access Bing Chat.

Vivaldi is built on the free Chromium project used by both Chrome and Microsoft Edge. AND It’s not the first time he’s had to impersonate another browser. For a service to work properly. As they explained, in 2o19 they started impersonating Chrome to improve the compatibility of some websites. Now they do the same with Microsoft Edge.

Users who want to search Bing with AI and get answers can now also do so from Vivaldi.

The technical solution was simple and it is remarkable that only this browser is currently encouraged to implement such a thing. yes even more stunning large companies artificially limit their services. Rather than allowing more users to test these features, they choose to connect it to their other services.

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