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Edge favorites menu
- This is great feedback. Are you looking for a way to access your favorites and history withough having to open a new tab?
I manage new employee onboarding for a global energy company with North American HQ in Houston. Part of that process includes assigning a laptop with his/her team or project bookmarks already loaded. That means we have to have multiple custom bookmark files to distribute companywide. The previous IE-11 system of using a separate folder in the My Documents folder was how we handle it. But if the NEW Edge is only handling Favorites in the Chrome manner within an internal database, then I fear many hundreds of thousands of employees sitting in many corporations will be frustrated. Having to handle bookmarks ONLY within the browser inhibits the way big companies need to move data. We are simply asking for a folder within the My Documents folder that we can collect, change, manage, and move bookmarks like IE-11 used to. Many of our employees have told us if that is not available then they will continue to use IE-11. We don't want that for security reasons, but we are pushing this to you because that's what employs and managers want. The Chrome system works fine for home users with a small number of bookmarks, but not when you need pre collected bookmarks unique to the various work groups, teams and projects. Thanks for the consideration.
- Maybe, not the case, but, I am going to suggest the following. Certainly, I do know of the Favorites folder in My Docs. Possibly, that will, actually, tie to our Edge C Favorites once and when Edge C is, indeed and in fact, an integrated part of the OS; as Edge is, now.
Cheers,
Drew
Sent from Windows Phone- Windows insider 20H1 build 18980
i can confirm there no such folder exists there.
Internet explorer is hidden and not usable, most of its executables are omitted.
that's very unlikely for MSFT to let go the modern database and return to the folder based favorites. if they were planning that they would apply it in the next upcoming Windows build
With Canary :
With IE/Edge :
I understand that Edge Chromium is based on Chromium, but nothing prevents to improve it (and not just have a browser that looks like 99% to Google Chrome)
tistou
"I understand that Edge Chromium is based on Chromium, but nothing prevents to improve it (and not just have a browser that looks like 99% to Google Chrome)"
Especially, being Chromium-based, it should be easy to be able to have its own individual identity! I, too, like so many others do not want a Google-Chrome clone with a Microsoft logo on the door. That would not be exciting or enticing and would completely miss the point. AS I have said before, go nuts under the covers & down in the 'boiler room', but, don't mess with or omit stuff we (already) have, use & like "AS IS"! And if & when heaps of us including Enterprise customers, are saying things, the same things, well... take heed! <-- is what Folks keep hoping, that their voice is not & won't be for naught. They DO need to have all they are mentioning, repeatedly.
Cheers,
Drew- Tistou, you are correct.
The screenshots you are showing are from the browser interface. I'm talking about the way Favorites were managed in the My Documents folder. You had total control over large batches at a time, and could move them from computer to computer just like regular files. An internal database within the browser prohibits that. There shouldn't be a requirement to open your browser and dig for your bookmarks if all you need to do is transfer batches of Favorites like files.- Right but that technology belongs to 10+ years ago. all major browsers Firefox, Edge, Chrome decided to handle it using databases and of course the cloud sync. we have to learn to adapt.
you can still move your bookmarks by export/importing them into other browsers.
the format is HTML and recognizable in most of the modern browsers. your bookmark icons will be transferred along the way too.
- Every change is not necessarily an improvement though
