“Turn Off” Bing’s Background Image

Recently, I was doing a site command on Google for “Bing.com” using Firefox and came across a certain link which didn’t seem to do anything until I realised after a few day’s, the background image on Bing hasn’t been showing!

Checking in Chrome, it was fine:

So? There must be a cookie set on my browser.

Using Firefox’s Web Developer Toolbar:

Fixed the Issue!

So the URL? Here you go -

http://www.bing.com/?rb=0

(I’m sure this will be useful if you want to have a joke or even divert people away from Bing! A simple link in an email will do the trick!)

This URL passes a variable to Bing “rb” with a value of 0 which set’s a cookie in your browser. So, going a (useless) step ahead, let’s analyse the cookie:

Again, using the Web Developer Toolbar, we can view the cookies for a domain:

and using this, I analysed the domain with and without the cookie set which gave me the cookie in question:

Name: _UR