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Elliot Kirk
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Nov 19, 2019

Importing Tabs and Settings from Chrome

We know the longer you’ve used a browser, the more it feels like home. You’ve set up your browser behavior to your liking and tweaked its various settings to fit your needs. It has all your user data...
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HotCakeX
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Dec 12, 2019
I wish we could import from non-stable versions of Chrome into Edge too.
so like from Chrome beta to Edge beta, or from Chrome dev to Edge dev.

right now if i am using any version other than Chrome stable, first i have to clean uninstall that, then install stable version, import my data to Edge and then clean uninstall stable again. very redundant steps in the process
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scrbl
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Dec 26, 2019

That doesn't sound ideal HotCakeX 

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    HotCakeX
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    Dec 26, 2019
    Why not? o.O
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      rishavsharan
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      Jan 03, 2020
      I am a PM in the Edge team and love the insights generated here.

      csrswalch, thanks for the heads up on that. I have taken a bug on it for my team.

      HotCakeX, regarding password import from file, can you help me better understand the use case? Where were the passwords exported from?
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        HotCakeX
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        Jan 03, 2020
        Hi,
        sure. I use Lastpass extension and after Edge insider browsers reaches stable channel, I want to import those passwords into Microsoft Edge and don't rely on the LastPass extension anymore.

        so LastPass has the option to export my passwords to a file. now all I need is an Import option to i can import my passwords to the Edge insider.

        this option existed a couple of months ago in Edge insider but it's no longer available, even though there is an "import password" flag in latest Edge insider canary.

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