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Extensions are remembered in Application Guard mode after fully closing it and the Edge browser
- Feb 12, 2020
HotCakeX This all sounds as expected behavior. With persistence disabled, the extensions (and other settings/data) will persist as long as the container VM exists (it will be destroyed when the host shuts down). The container VM might be destroyed before that -- you can force the issue by restarting the hvsics service for example.
You can see if you have persistence policy on/off at edge://application-guard-internals/#host (look for "container persistence" in the "Policies" section).
It would be unexpected for the extension settings to outlive the container (when persistence is disabled) -- that they are going away with a restart indicates this is all working.
Tying the profile (settings) lifetime to the browser lifetime (instead of the container lifetime) is something we are discussing internally.
HotCakeX - Thanx for the feedback. Currently the functionality is when "Allow Data persistence For ..." policy is enabled on the device. The Application Guard will persist the previous state. If this policy is turned off the state is flushed on container startup.