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SeitzM
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Apr 14, 2019
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Family Safety parental controls for Edge on Chromium

Where can I find information on how and when Edge on Chromium  will support Microsoft Family Safety parental controls?
  • Elliot Kirk's avatar
    Elliot Kirk
    Apr 14, 2019
    We have not released any information on that yet, SeitzM. What controls are you most interested in?
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chrismrea
Copper Contributor
Jul 06, 2019

SeitzM looks like there is a new release for Chromium that now supports this through an edge://flags switch - https://techdows.com/2019/06/microsoft-edge-canary-gets-microsoft-family-safety-support.html

 

i need to get up to the latest chromium release before i can test, so can't confirm this works yet...

 

tl:dr from the link above:

1. Make you sure you’ve updated Edge Canary version to 77.0.204.0 or higher, visit edge://flags page

2. Search for “Family” and for “Microsoft Family Safety” flag, choose “Enabled”

 

Microsoft Family Flag in Microsoft Edge Canary Chromium

3. Restart the browser.

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    SeitzM
    Brass Contributor
    Sep 26, 2019

    chrismrea  I finally got to try this on the latest Beta.  One issue I ran into.  Unfortunately, the McAfee security software that came on my latest laptop seemed to interfere with this.  Once I removed McAfee. parental controls worked!

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    reded23
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 29, 2019

    chrismrea  it looks like this flag has been removed. I didnt actually get it to work anyway when the flag was there

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      chrismrea
      Copper Contributor
      Aug 29, 2019

      reded23 agreed that it didn't really do much when it was there.  the latest version, however, with the upgrade of the OS itself, seems to link it all together finally - i'm seeing both Edge Dev and Beta respecting family controls for the most part.  The only thing that seems to go in and out is the inprivate mode, which sometimes is disabled and sometimes comes back

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        reded23
        Copper Contributor
        Aug 29, 2019

        chrismrea Thats great news...what build/lane of Windows are you on ?

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    chrismrea
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 06, 2019
    quick note - to be clear, release 77.0.204 is not yet out (as of 7/6) in the stable beta version - you'll need to grab the Canary release which may not be as stable - https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/download
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      NVader2000
      Brass Contributor
      Jul 16, 2019

      Ok great! This appears to work. However, there does not seem to be a way to lock this feature down to prevent someone to disabling it. 

       

      I am going to agree with Drew1903 that this should be at the OS level not the browser.

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        Drew1903
        Silver Contributor
        Jul 16, 2019

        NVader2000 

        My name is Drew.  The 1903 was added to the sake of a User Name. Yes, Parental controls are part of Win10.  The thing to keep in mind is Edge C. is not yet the OS's browser.  Right now, Edge, still, is.  I suggest that once Edge C. is the OS's, actual, browser (not Edge, anymore) the OS Parental Controls will affect it.  This is why flags are necessary, at this time & not after Edge C. is released, no more than Edge requires any such thing, now.  Things are different (more seamless) when (once) the browser is, actually, an integral part of the OS (and not beta test versions).

        Cheers,
        Drew

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