How to Remove New Bing Region and Browser Restrictions

Part I: Removing Regional Restrictions#

Recently, due to certain reasons, when using New Bing in mainland China, the following issue may occur: "Sorry, looks like your network settings are preventing access to this feature."

Here is a relatively simple solution: modify the IP address in the X-Forwarder-For field of the request header.

The specific steps are as follows:

Set the region of your Bing account to a region outside mainland China, such as the United States.
Install a browser extension:
Firefox: ModHeader or Header Editor
Chromium Based (Edge/Chrome): ModHeader or Header Editor
Find a range of IP addresses or a specific IP address in the United States and record it. For example, 1.32.232.xxx is a range of IP addresses in the United States, where xxx can be any value within 255.
Configure the extension:
Modify the X-Forwarder-For field in the request header and set the value to the IP address you just found, such as 1.32.232.123.
Set the matching URL for all requests to bing.com: .*://www.bing.com/.*

Header Editor configuration example

ModHeader configuration example

After following the above steps, you should be able to use New Bing.

Part II: Removing Browser Restrictions#

Due to various reasons, if you want to use New Bing, you must use Microsoft's own Edge browser. Although it is powerful, I am used to Firefox and do not want to switch. However, I also don't want to switch browsers back and forth just to use this feature, which is too troublesome.

Therefore, here is a solution: change the browser's User Agent (UA).

The specific steps are as follows:

Download the User-Agent Switcher and Manager extension.
Switch to the Edge browser UA as shown in the image below and click Apply.

Now you should be able to use New Bing in Firefox.

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