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Edge forcing switch profiles when using any .local domain or IP address
AlexB Same here. I've already wondered why this only happens with my Pi-hole bookmark. It's annoying as hell and I hope this gets fixed as soon as possible.
- I had to migrate my personal profile to Chrome, it was just unbearable to use Edge pushinbg me to my work profile. Considering I have a huge home lab for testing all sort of things that perhaps one day will become something work related, I just could not keep using edge. I have clusters of VMware/Hyper-V hosts, lots of Linux servers and virtual firewalls. Very frustrating, at least to move all my stuff to Chrome was a breeze. I wish this was fixed so I could get back using Edge.
Same here, also moved back to Chrome. This is so silly and annoying, especially because I have profile switching turned off in settings. Edge doesn't care, it will insist to switch to a work profile anyway...
I kind of think/hope this is a bug/oversight on MS part. They can't be that daft to force this on their users right?there is an icon on the URL bar
Selecting this allowed me to choose in which profile I want to open that specific website, including .local and IP addresses.
I wish Microsoft made this a bit more evident as it is a new feature. I just noticed this as on my 4th machine I was prompted to select the profile I wanted. In 3 other machines, I was not prompted.
Although using that icon works, since it's defining the preference at the site-specific level, you'll have to do it for every local site you access on your intranet.
That may be sufficient for your use case... However, I was able to confirm that adding the registry key from the https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#switchintranetsitestoworkprofile will work to revert to the previous behavior for all sites.
