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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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Dec 26, 2019

Why not? o.O

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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?

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.
- rishavsharan
  Microsoft
  Jan 03, 2020
  Thanks!
  
  This seems to be a Chromium change that we have inherited.
  https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1026748&q=PasswordImport&colspec=ID%20Pri%20M%20Stars%20ReleaseBlock%20Component%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20OS%20Modified
  
  Anyway, I have taken this as an item in our backlog and we would be keeping a close watch on this.
  - HotCakeX
    MVP
    Jan 03, 2020
    Yes but what that means? it means Google can control what features are in Microsoft Edge and what features get removed?
    that's a HUGE issue right there.
    honestly Microsoft, for their own sake, should fork Chromium and stop Google from interfering.

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