Use Brave browser.
Since you mentioned it here I've used it and never looked back. I love it, until now
It seems mine was hijacked somehow and browser bar searches are randomly redirecting to bing (yuk!)
I've ran all the usual scans, my default search engine is google, I only use 3 well know extensions, but lately I'm getting redirected to bing for no apparent reason. Look here, I typed in "testing" in the browser bar and you can even see how it goes from google to bing by itself:
If I go to google itself and then search it's fine, it only redirects when I search from the address bar.