Did Bing Visual Search just stop working in Pale Moon?

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[PCMartin]

Did Bing Visual Search just stop working in Pale Moon?

Post by [PCMartin] » 2020-11-26, 21:01

Today, I tried to do a Bing reverse image search for the first time since updating to Pale Moon 28.16.0 (x64 for Windows 10 1909), and neither dragging-and-dropping nor pasting in copied image content worked. The drops/pastes wouldn't paste. Both operations work in Google Chrome, and dragging-and-dropping into Google reverse image search still works in Pale Moon.

Is there something special about 28.16.0 that might have contributed to this new incompatibility? Or do you think Microsoft made some Chredge/Chrome-centric change to Bing that would account for it? I've done around 1000 Bing reverse image searches in Pale Moon over the past four months and this is the first time I've run into a problem.

Additional Intervening Changes:
  • I completely disabled uBlock Origin and eMatrix for Bing.
  • The only Pale Moon extension changes I wittingly made were upgrading from Splashed 1.2 to 1.3, switching from DownThemAll 3.0.8 to DownThemAll *nightly* 3.0.9pre.2019.08.20.00h00m09s, and installing GitHub Web Components Polyfill 1.1.6.
  • I disabled "Modern Standby" (fka "Connected Standby") in my Windows registry in order to disable wake-on-mouse and wake-on-keyboard, but I'm not seeing how that would have any impact on this issue.
Off-Topic Tip:

Google reverse image search generally wins on sheer volume of hits returned, but Bing reverse image search generally wins on everything else. Bing's filtering tools, presentation options, and dimension information are markedly more useful than Google's. Bottom Line: I can usually identify an image and find a "better" copy of it more quickly using Bing than I can using Google.
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