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josh_bodner
Microsoft
Jun 02, 2020Dev channel update to 85.0.531.1 is live
Hello Insiders! Today we’re releasing build 85.0.531.1 to the Dev channel. It’s a small week this week since it’s the first one for major version 85. Everything noteworthy it contains is:
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Eyal_Shahar
Jun 05, 2020Copper Contributor
I am using Version 85.0.531.1 and it creates a real mess of my Favorites when syncing between my PCs. To make things more interesting it's not only duplicating them by the thousands but also relocate/rearrange them.
Remove duplicates is doing some of the needed work but not all.
Eyal.
- josh_bodnerJun 18, 2020
Microsoft
Eyal_Shahar (and everybody else seeing favorites duplication) we've identified some new bugs in this area that we inherited from upstream Chromium. Both us on the Edge side and the folks working on Chromium are actively looking into it.
- tomscharbachJun 08, 2020Bronze Contributor
Eyal_Shahar Syncing Favorites has been a perennial issue on my Win 10 computers (2 running W10 1909 Stable with Edge Stable, 1 running W10 2004 Stable with Edge Stable, 1 running W10 WIP Fast Ring with Edge Stable, Dev and Canary). I've experienced unwanted duplications, as you have, failures to replicate Favorites across computers, dropped Favorites, and Favorites rearranged for no apparent reason. Edge seems to handle syncing okay for a while, and then acts up. This has been going on since April 2019 and hasn't improved.
In each case I am running Edge "clean" (that is, no extensions or other add-ons or third-party addons except the Font Rendering Enhancer extension to mitigate the "wimpy font" issue somewhat), so I'm reasonably sure that the sync issues are embedded in Edge itself rather than in conflicts with third-party extensions or addons. My Favorites are also relatively straightforward (16 core Favorites on the "Favorites Bar" and 15 news-related Favorites running under "Other Favorites"), with no folders or other complications, so I'm reasonably sure that nothing in the Favorites structure is causing the problem. My W10/WIP computer (the one on which I run W10 Fast Ring and Edge Dev/Canary) was off line for several weeks last month and during that period the problem occurred on the computers where I run W10 2009 (at that time) with Edge Stable, so I'm reasonably sure that the problem is not related either to WIP or Dev/Canary use.
In short, normal troubleshooting does not get to the bottom of the problem. The only possible pattern I see (seemingly confirmed by Josh Bodner's discussion at "Known Issues") is that the issue might be related to the fact that many users encountering the problem have been involved in the MEI program, suggesting that something might have gotten tangled up in the server sync account tied to their MSA early on that keeps triggering the problem.
I run Firefox as my primary browser on all my Windows computers, two Linux computers and two Android devices, and have for years. In contrast to Edge, my Firefox installation uses a complicated Bookmarks nested structure and about 150-200 Bookmarks, syncing across OS platforms. I have never -- not once -- encountered an issue with syncing on any of those devices in the years since I started syncing Firefox (so long ago I can't remember when I started).
I will be testing Edge on Linux if and when Microsoft gets around to releasing a Linux version for testing. My plan has been to move over to Edge as my primary browser after the Linux version has been running stable for a while with the basics intact and operating. I won't do that, though, until the Edge syncing problem is resolved. I don't demand much from a browser (95% of the features in modern browsers are wasted on me), but I do demand that the basics -- security, usability, syncing and so on -- work reliably. When it comes to something as basic as syncing, Edge isn't yet at that point.
Because Firefox is is almost certain to remain my primary browser for another year or two, I don't have a dog in this fight. But my husband currently uses Edge Classic on his two computers, and (according to the trade press) is going to be moved over the Edge Chromium in an upcoming Windows Update. I can only hope that he and others being ported over the Edge Chromium don't encounter the issue. What a mess that would create!
- HotCakeXJun 08, 2020MVPSpoiler
Eyal_Shahar wrote:I am using Version 85.0.531.1 and it creates a real mess of my Favorites when syncing between my PCs. To make things more interesting it's not only duplicating them by the thousands but also relocate/rearrange them.
Remove duplicates is doing some of the needed work but not all.Eyal.
I'm also seeing favorite sync issues, duplication, removal, relocation, favorites not syncing at all etc.
i'm not only seeing them on Dev but also on Stable Edge version 83. these don't look like they are going away any time soon and sync issues are the main roadblock not letting me use Edge as my main browser and so i'm stuck with my Firefox until Edge developers decide to give sync issues the Highest priority and Fix it for good.
Been using Edge canary more than a year, as long as i can remember Edge always has had favorite sync issues..
- Eyal_ShaharJun 08, 2020Copper Contributor
As I am deleting duplicates every day, the sync process is ahead of me and yesterday it created almost 30,000 duplicates on each computer
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Today, it also deleted some of my favorites.
It's getting risky...
- HotCakeXJun 08, 2020MVPYeah..always have a backup of your favorites in a HTML file or on a different browser until this gets fixed.. 😞