Bing Chat's Edge browser requirement can be (for now) worked around by setting Edge's UserAgent

[replikvlt]

therefore it should be possible to use other browsers after setting UserAgent to Edge.

It can be set using Playwright's emulation

[replikvlt]

Example userAgent that can be used is: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/113.0.1774.42'

[ryanhlewis]

Hey @replikvlt

Thanks for your pull request and your issue. I'll look into both as soon as I can.

I'm not enjoying the fixed 7 second wait you set on your pull request, and I want to try to make a fix for that before merging up, but your other changes in regard to handling "new chat" is wonderful.

As for this issue, do you think we should switch to a Chrome approach? Are there benefits to Selenium versus Playwright?
I've seen benchmarks that indicate the opposite.

Edge is built-in (and practically uninstallable) on all Windows machines, so I feel that although it seems a little strange to use Edge for some people, it's something that everyone has, regardless of whether you wanted it or not.

[replikvlt]

I didn't say anything about Selenium and I'm not familiar with it. Playwright is good enough I think, and it also supports not just Edge browser but other browsers.

The 7 second wait is bad solution, but I already explained it in the PR commit description, was just a quick hack to test other changes.

I think support for other browser is not mandatory for this project, however I think its possible that this project may be hosted on other OS'es such as Linux, and not all of them support Edge browser and diversity in this regard may be nice. As long as the check for Edge browser is simple UserAgent check, it seems easy to be 'fooled'. It may become hard or outright impossible in future if they will implement other check.