Can't make google my default search provider with IE 11?

[dstagg80]

So in IE I go to manage add-ons, I click on the search provider section, I click on "find more search providers", and it opens up a window with a list of search providers to choose from. Great so far!!

I click on google, and a new window pops up with the option "add to internet explorer". Ok, sweet. So I click on it and.............nothing! Nothing happens. Nothing gets added, no error messages, no loading bar, absolutely nothing happens, it's as though I never clicked it. And it's the same for every search provider listed, I can't add any of them. I'm sure I have some setting toggled that I shouldn't have which is preventing this, but I can't for the life of me figure out which one.

Please help!! My default search provider is Bing, and I hate Bing!! I can't change it to anything else. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!

 

[mapesdhs]

Have you recently installed any updates to IE11? One of them breaks the browser choice option,
no solution available at this time, MS still working on it. See:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2911704/microsoft-windows/ie-11-patch-kb-3038314-blocks-adding-search-providers-install-may-fail-with-error-80092004.html

Ian.

 

[dstagg80]

Actually yes I have recently updated to IE11. So you are saying there is nothing I can do about it? 🙁

 

[mapesdhs]

If you have installed update KB3038314, then no, right now there's nothing
you can do (except wait for MS to sort out the mess they've made), but then
I would never use IE anyway, so insecure it's banned from govt offices in
some countries. Try Firefox, Chrome, etc. instead in the meantime. Indeed,
FF defaults to Google.

Ian.