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Limyx826
Iron Contributor
Mar 27, 2020

Default profile on Edge startup

I currently using two profile, one for personal another for work. I always using personal profile when using Edge only enter work profile for work related stuff. So I kind of expect Edge will start i...
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AndrewSweeny
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HotCakeX - did you try this behavior? 

 

I am experiencing this behavior (and it's been like this for a long time now). Edge will default to the last open profile if there are no browsers open - even when using separate shortcuts with the profile icons. 

 

Additionally, when there are two profiles open at the same tab, clicking links from other programs will result in that link being opened in whatever profile was last active. 

 

Edge should have a way to explicitly start a specific profile or a way to tell Edge which profile to open links in.

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Rohit Yadav
Bronze Contributor
Dec 28, 2020

AndrewSweeny There is a new toggle to select which profile to open upon startup using the default Edge icon. 

 

 

I guess it is in beta at the moment and should make it to the stable in the v88 update.

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