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Automatic Profile Switching in Edge: Specify domain for each profile
I would like to specify a domain for eg amazon.in to open in Personal profile whereas my work code repository domain to open in the work profile, right now I can't configure which websites to open in which profile.
saurabhjain nice suggestion! The bad news is that we don't have a better suggestion at this very moment. The only think I can thing of is that you can right click on a link if opening a site from the web and open the link as a particular profile. We may build a near term workaround to right click on a tab and move it to another profile as well.
The good news is that this is on our roadmap. Currently, we define work and personal fairly naively by if a site tries to auth with a work or personal microsoft account. We are planning to look into a feature where you can configure a list of sites that you define as work or personal in a future release.
This feature seems to be in place in Edge now, but I can't add new sites to the profile list - the Add button is greyed out. Any ideas why? How do I tell Edge which domains to use for work?
andybryant I do not see an "Add" button as at 5-Nov-2021 on Edge Version 95.0.1020.40 (Official build) (64-bit), despite the banner stating "Add, edit and delete automatic profile switching websites list here".
How does one add a specific website so that it opens in a specific Edge profile?
- i have the same thing now the 95 browser is really released..
And that feature is listed, how do i add stuff to that list for a profile? i don't even see that "filter sites"
This is not something Edge needs to be smart about, i will give them a list per profile of sites that i really want to have in that or this profile... i know my domains..
saurabhjain Thanks for the request, and welcome to our MSFT Edge Insider community! Can you tell us more about your use case for this?
I'm not as familiar with the scope of functionality for Profile Switching, so adding the feature's owner, Avi Vaid, for visibility.
Fawkes (they/them)
Program Manager & Community Manager - Microsoft EdgeDeleted Automatic profile switching chooses which profile to open an external link. Right now it is automatic and for me is not doing any switching when opening external links (maybe it is not identifying them as personal/work-related things), so I would like to provide certain domains to be opened in the personal profile and certain to be in the work profile, like when I am shopping (amazon, etc) / using social media websites (Instagram, Twitter) I want to open them in personal profile but like when some shares a document link to me (Google Docs, O365), work-related tools (git repository, JIRA, etc) I want those links to be opened in my work profile. Also if this can be done for links that are typed into the browser then it would be very useful, like if I forget to switch to personal profile to browse Facebook and instead open it in work profile it should automatically switch or show a pop up to switch.
Avi VaidMicrosoft
saurabhjain nice suggestion! The bad news is that we don't have a better suggestion at this very moment. The only think I can thing of is that you can right click on a link if opening a site from the web and open the link as a particular profile. We may build a near term workaround to right click on a tab and move it to another profile as well.
The good news is that this is on our roadmap. Currently, we define work and personal fairly naively by if a site tries to auth with a work or personal microsoft account. We are planning to look into a feature where you can configure a list of sites that you define as work or personal in a future release.
