A way to disable Google Lens for image search.
See original GitHub issueTest plan
- Fresh install
- Set Google as default search engine
- Visit a web page with an image
- Right click (or ctrl+click) an image so that context menu comes up
- It should show
Search Google for image(should not show `Google Lens) - Clicking that should NOT go to Google Lens
Description
In Chrome, you can disable Google Lens with “chrome://flags/#enable-lens-region-search”
Expected result:
Disable “chrome://flags/#enable-lens-region-search” and search using Google Image instead.
Brave version (brave://version info)
V1.36.109
Version/Channel Information:
- Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? YES
- Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? YES
- Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? YES
Issue Analytics
- State:
- Created 2 years ago
- Reactions:3
- Comments:8 (3 by maintainers)
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cc: @emerick in case we can put a regex exception in the localization scripts (ex: don’t translate
Google Lens)+1 from folks in https://old.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/t5kzur/how_do_i_turn_off_this_brave_lens_thing_i_just/
Definitely a branding issue too, as it renames to
Brave Lens