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Dev channel update to 81.0.396.0 is live
Was exited about the links and profile switching - but I'm confused about how it works. What is "work or school links" and how do you determine that a link is as such? How do you determine if a profile is a "personal profile" or "work or school profile"? Is it based on the type of account logged into the profile?
I'm still missing the option of "Choose the profile to open links from external programs", so I ALWAYS open links from Outlook (or other programs) in the browser profile I have chosen.
Sorry for sounding grumpy, but the whole "Default profile for links" is the single biggest annoyance of Chromium browsers and I feel like it should be a relatively easy fix - easier than the new profile options in this update and so much easier to understand for people.
ahl2ndc your profile type is determined by what kind of email you used to sign into it with. Signing in with a personal Microsoft account (outlook.com, hotmail.com, etc.) creates a personal account, and signing in with an account your workplace or school created and controls (for example, I work at Microsoft, so my microsoft.com email) creates a work or school account.
When you're actively using your work account, you should have an option at edge://settings/profiles/multiProfileSettings to enable the feature, although fpintos we've noticed that some people don't have a link to that page on edge://settings/profiles. Then, if you click on a link in a different application (for example, Outlook) that navigates to a location in your work's domain, protected by its login, etc., and the most recently used Edge window was for your personal account, it will trigger the automatic switching logic.
Thank you Josh - and excuse my bad attitude.
When you write "sign into it with", does that mean signed in to the browser, so I can synchronize my favorites and so on or is it enough to sign in on a Office 365 sign in page? I have multiple profiles that are almost all signed into different Office 365 tenants. But only one profile where I'm signed into the browser itself. Just to clarify.
How does the browser determine if a link is protected by my office 365 (work) login? I have seen multiple times, that a link is opened in a not-logged-into-browser profile, where I would expect it to open in my main profile (where I have logged into the browser with my work Office 365 user).
Here are some examples:
Yammer
Azure DevOps
xxx.sharepoint.com (our Office 365 SharePoint tenant)Can the Outlook 365 link protection be messing with the logic of which profile to open?
When you write "sign into it with", does that mean signed in to the browser, so I can synchronize my favorites and so on or is it enough to sign in on a Office 365 sign in page?ahl2ndc I mean explicitly sign into the browser. We don't log you into the browser whenever you log into a Microsoft-powered website, but one of the benefits you get when you log into the browser is single sign-on. In other words, we use the credentials you logged into the browser with and automatically use them to log into eligible websites (which it sounds like may not be a good thing in your case if you're logging into websites with different accounts than what you'd be logging into the browser with!)
As for which profile a link opens in, the default behavior is just to use the most recently active profile (or if you've got multiple windows open, each of them in different profiles, it's just the most recently active window). I don't think the automatic profile switching will kick in if you're not signed into the browser with all the profiles either.
