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josh_bodner
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Nov 09, 2021

Dev channel update to 97.0.1069.0 is live

Hello Insiders!  Today we’re releasing build 97.0.1069.0 to the Dev channel.  It’s hard to believe it, but we’re already halfway through version 97!  If you missed Ignite last week, we had lots of bi...
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foo_bar
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Nov 09, 2021

Why is Edge Dev frequently resetting on its own? I'm being signed out of all sites and I get the Welcome to Edge OOBE-kind of dialogue box on launch where I have to, all over again, select sync settings, default search engine, New Tab page layout, etc. It has happened thrice in two days. I understand dev builds are unstable but the problem is that none of that is mentioned in Known Issues.

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Nov 11, 2021

foo_bar First let's figure out if the profiles are still on the machine.  Can you go to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Edge Dev\User Data, and see if you have old profile folders still in there like Default, Profile 1, etc.?  

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    foo_bar
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    Nov 13, 2021

     

    josh_bodner wrote:

    foo_bar First let's figure out if the profiles are still on the machine.  Can you go to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Edge Dev\User Data, and see if you have old profile folders still in there like Default, Profile 1, etc.?  

    josh_bodner Yes, 'Default' folder is there. Also fyi, Edge hasn't reset itself since me commenting here. But it does open blank with "Restore pages" dialogue even when it had not crashed earlier.

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