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Dev channel update to 78.0.244.0 is live
In the previous update thread, I posted how I hadn't got the options to sync passwords and form fill data, then after the additional update that I had then got those sync option, but lamented that as I only have one Windows device and the Android Edge app was still only syncing favourites I had nothing for Edge Dev to sync with.
I now see that the Android Edge (Beta) update last night also added the password and form fill data syncing, and my phone promptly synced and got all the passwords and form fill data from my laptop Edge Dev.
Cool.
Roll on History and Open tabs.
I'm not quite sure if this is a feature request or about a bug in current behaviour.
We have a choice, on startup, between the NTP or set page(s) on the one hand, or continuing where we left off at the end of the previous session on the other. Personally I usually want the NTP, but occasionally want to carry on from where I was. In Firefox this is easy, because in the main (hamburger) menu there is a 'Restore Previous Session' (which can even be added as a toolbar button), so I have Firefox set to start on the NTP, and on those occasions I want to carry on from where I was I just click 'Restore Previous Session', which restores where I ended the last session in that window.
In Edge Dev there is no such button or link. However, and with my Startup set to NTP, if I go to ellipsis-menu>History immediately after startup, under 'Recently closed' there is an 'x tabs' (where x is a number) with a folder icon which appears to be the tabs open at the end of the previous session (although I haven't been using it enough to be sure that's exactly what it is and always will be). Clicking it has re-produced where I was at the end of the previous session, BUT it produces where I was the previous session in a NEW window. So I then have one Edge Dev window reproducing my previous session sitting exactly on top of another Edge Dev window just with the NTP in it. Is that the intended behaviour? Or is the opening of the previous session from that History Recently closed x tabs in a new window a bug?
If it is intended, then I would like to request a link in the main ellipsis menu to re-open the last session in THAT window.
If it's a bug and it's supposed to open in the same window, then that's OK then, once it is fixed ... although I'd still prefer a 'restore last session' in the main menu rather than to have to dig into History to do it ... and it will be not at all obvious to many users that the History>Recently closed x tabs will restore the previous session - that functionality should be indicated in the interface.