Do you know, like Windows Copilot in Windows 11, Bing Chat in Sidebar in Microsoft Edge can do some things on users’ behalf? It can change or control various Edge settings. Here are some of the Actions Bing Chat can perform in the Edge browser.
Recently, Microsoft integrated Windows Copilot, its AI personal Assitant into Windows 11. It can do various tasks on your PC. You can try some below.
Windows Copilot actions:
Windows Copilot performs some “actions” for you on Windows 11 like
- “change to dark mode”,
- “turn on do not disturb”,
- take a screenshot,
- summarise website in Edge browser (active tab), and more.
Bing Chat AI integrated into Sidebar in Microsoft Edge can do various things. It can answer your questions, generate summaries, and let you plan vacations, make receipts, create AI Images, and more.
Like Windows Copilot, You can ask Bing AI in the Chat pane on the sidebar to perform some actions for the Microsoft Edge browser, here are they. You do need to issue the following commands to Bing Chat and it will do the rest.
Bing Chat Actions in Microsoft Edge browser:
- Turn on vertical tabs
- Switch to horizontal tabs
- Open appearance settings
- close other tabs
- open downloads hub
- Open clear browsing data dialog
- open extensions Hub
- hide the vertical tabs button
- open favorites page
- add all to the collection
Bing chat commands to manage Edge settings
Above commands worked for us and Bing chat did the actions we asked in Edge. However, when you’re not specific about the question, it may not do what you expect.
For instance, if you type “collections”, it hides the collection button from the toolbar and re-adds it again, kinda it does nothing.
Bing Chat getting Micorsoft Edge plugins
Micorsoft has confirmed the company is working on adding Edge-specific plugins to Bing Chat. For instance, they can build a plugin that adds an option to grab text via OCR from any images found on the internet and screenshots taken in Edge.
What’s your take on this? Let us know in the comments below [Via Leo]
Final words: Bing Chat Pane can do more for you in the Microsoft Edge browser. It is now capable of closing tabs, opening clear browsing data dialog, opening vertical tabs and changing Edge theme, opening appearance settings, and much more. “Ask Bing chat” in the sidebar, it will do these actions in Edge.
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