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Extension Syncing...
Dennis5mile wrote:
Ok, so, I install 2 new extensions on my main Canary system. I drag and drop them where I want them to be placed. I go to my other system and log in and wait for it to be synced. The extensions show up and they are in the same exact place I had placed them on my main system. Great! Syncing extensions works great right? Problem; I go to my other system and I delete those extensions because I really don't need them on that system. I come back to my main system and low and behold, they also got deleted from there!! I don't believe this should happen. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think this is Not good...
Dennis5mile
My thoughts on how to get by this deleting extensions on one system and they get deleted on all your systems...
What if we had a button ">" next to the sync option, that would either bring up a popup or another page with a list of all your extensions you have currently installed on your main account. And next to each extension is a tic box and whatever extension you want to be synced you would tic that box and it will get synced to all your PC/Laptops or what have you that you are logged into.
And maybe another little area where you could have a choice of
a- delete/uninstall (extensionname) from this pc
b- delete/uninstall (extensionname) from all pc's...
Now you have a choice of either installing all extensions to all your pc's or just certain ones and you have a choice to delete/uninstall an extension from all pc's or just from the one you are currently on...
just a rough 20centsworth of thought on the subject of syncing extensions...
Dennis5mile
today I clean installed Edge canary and I see extension sync is now activated
Version 82.0.439.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit)
- Oh, Great... Let me know how it tests out for you. See if you get the same results I got....
Dennis5mile- It's working great so far, I tested it with ublock origin from chrome web store
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/fixed-add-support-for-ublock-origin-cloud-sync-in-edge-insider/m-p/993024/
about extension deletion that you mentioned, it's an expected result. sync is 2 ways, when you add an extension on a device, you want it to be added to other devices, when you delete an extension, you want it to be deleted from other devices too. that's how sync works in every program I've used.
HotCakeX wrote:
.........when you add an extension on a device, you want it to be added to other devices, when you delete an extension, you want it to be deleted from other devices too. that's how sync works in every program I've used.But this is not always true. I use other devices for different types of work and on a couple of them my Wife and Daughter use them. I don't need to have every extension I have on this device on the others and there is no need to keep them installed on them. We should be able to pick and choose which extensions to sync and which ones we don't need to have on the other systems we log into. As Administrator of those other devices I should be able to choose which extensions to sync. Example, I don't need to have "OneNote" "Office" "Amazon" extensions on the other devices as I do not use them for any of that, but I do on this device. But, if I delete them on the other devices they will get deleted on this one. Even if I turned sync off on the other systems so I can delete the ones I do not need, as soon as I turned sync back on, they would either get deleted off this system or get re-installed on the others to keep everything in sync.
justmy20centsworthofopinion
Dennis5mile
- Yeah i'll see how it goes