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Edge sync with Google Account
add to that the @hotmail, @live accounts too, as well as Microsoft Office 365 (aka work/school accounts), there are more than 3 Billions Microsoft accounts and Edge browsers supports sign in from all of them.
https://www.microsoft.com/securityinsights/identity
If microsoft really want edge to have a future they need to enable google services - my data is already with google so your argument is invalid. Currently i don't even want to try edge because when i last did so i found the sync issues between devices and then i found that on my iPhone edge was not working properly so i had to go back to chrome there and then i had 1 android phone using edge, 1 PC using edge, 1 laptop using edge and an iPhone that gets none of this data transfered to it. So i had to switch back to google on all devices because of this limitation. You can ONLY import from chrome if chrome is installed - i don't want 17 browsers installed and i am not ready to commit fully to the microsoft ecosystem with their update track record or simple features that take more then 10 years to implement (thank you though for getting us built in RAR support in windows 20 years later). Using a 3rd party extension for sync is also not a FIX as now you have given your data to microsoft, google AND on top of that to a much less reputable 3rd party to perform the sync.
When you give an argument to prove a point make sure it cannot be used to prove the opposite of your point as well which completely invalidates it as an argument ....
Just try this on your microsoft account: open a page in edge and then go to your phone and check your history in edge - the page you opened on desktop will not show up on the phone. Sometimes it doesn't show even weeks later. Tabs from other devices? Never worked on microsoft account - it has been many years since microsoft had these functions and yet they still don't work so why would i even give it another shot ? I do understand why as a corporation this is not a decision that microsoft will consider but if you want edge to be a browser that is used for reasons other then downloading chrome then you need to find a way for this to be implemented in a functional manner otherwise all the effort put into edge development is wasted....
- alexHonoriMay 02, 2025Copper Contributor
good luck then. You won't get any support here, just go back to chrome or some fork of it if you hate so much Microsoft's sync function. It's difficult to argue you because the base of your argument is objectively untrue.
- manoila_alexMay 03, 2025Copper Contributor
Which base of the argument was untrue? Solution for sync that was given was to import ALL your data from google account to microsoft account and that this adds privacy - how can me having my data on 2 platforms at the same time add to my privacy?? I have my work account here on my personal laptop as we speak - last entry on my personal laptop in history is wednesday. Today is saturday. On my work laptop i have history entries from today as well as every other day. The microsoft sync does NOT work across devices properly. Each device will have its own history. On google it is more clear which device i used to browse which page. You always have tabs from other devices there updated instantly so you can jump from one device to another with ease… i have never been able to do this with microsoft. Yes i do not use a microsoft account at all except for my work account.
”Just use chrome or a fork of it?” You mean edge?
Come back to this planet man…