Forum Discussion
Deployment - Fonts, Favorites, Sync
HotCakeX "The import process you described is normal ..."
"Normal" as in "SNAFU".
"... the only problem that is and has been all the time is that Edge sync servers and browsers don't have the functionality to prevent duplicate favorites."
EdgeClassic is notorious for creating duplicate favorites/bookmarks and creating duplicate folders within the Bookmarks Menu, seemingly almost at random during sync, and for dropping favorites/bookmarks, again seemingly almost at random.
The message and help boards are full of discussions about how messed up EdgeClassic sync has been over the years. I've experienced problems myself, although EdgeClassic has never been my primary browser.
I hope that EdgeChromium will be a little more stable in this respect, although given all the sync issues I've been reading about in this Forum of late, I don;'t have a high level of confidence.
Anyway, back to topic: Since I already have duplicate sets of favorites/bookmarks, after the cutover I expect to have triplicate sets of favorites/bookmarks. That will be a treat.
I'm sometimes glad, in a snarky sort of way, that Microsoft doesn't look like it will get around to going cross-platform with Linux in my lifetime, so I won't have to make a choice about whether to make Edge my primary browser. Firefox just works -- it handles complex bookmark structures without messing anything up, has robust font rendering, and users don't have to play "whack a mole" with flyout bookmark menus.
the only problem I have with Firefox sync is that they don't sync my bookmarks favicons so i have to reload all of my bookmarks at least once every time I install it.
I hope Edge learn from Firefox and also Vivaldi to make a robust sync service and add a sync button so we can sync our data manually too.