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Favorites Folder Expansion Persistence Changed
MicrosoftHey there!
Standardizing the behavior when clicking different spots on the favorites was intentional. It was generally confusing to users to have what they viewed as the same action (clicking a favorite) lead to different outcomes, so this was standardized. Totally understand that you'd like to be able to choose which behavior occurs, though! It sounds like you've already submitted feedback around this, but for anyone coming into this thread later that would like to see a setting for this or other ways to more granularly control the behavior -- make sure you submit feedback in the browser and let us know 😃
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- Thank you for your follow up. It would be good to have a response from the Feedback items we submitted. This has been going on for several weeks and has been reported multiple times. Based on your response, we can now see that this change is considered a feature, not a bug.
While not wanting to distract the team from resolving issues, this information would be helpful to avoid reporting the perceived persistence of a "bug". The email acknowledging Feedback submissions includes the sentence "We'll keep you posted on our progress.". I appreciate it when I do receive an update, but it does not happen often.
There will always design decisions that don't reflect individual ways of working. For my way of working, the behavior of the Favorites keeps getting further and further away from the smooth flyout design of the legacy Edge.
That said, I appreciate the continuing progress. The only other feature change that I really miss is the blocking of auto-playing audio and video. Since this is still on the Planned list, I look forward to seeing the implementation.- If it's really a feature and not a bug, being able to create folders to "sty/classify" favorites is no longer of any interest since they are all visible now
- It does make my normal ways of working more difficult. I have to manually collapse folders frequently so my list of favorites folders does not turn into a very long scroll list. This is particularly true when I use subfolders, meaning they have to be collapsed as well in order to keep the list manageably short.
So far I have not identified a different approach that allows me to organize my favorites, but avoid lots of clicking to manually collapse expanded folders and sub-folders.
Hello
Thanks for your reply
In fact, I (and others) have favorites in a folder (Other favorites, Links for me)
Before when I opened the Links folder, Favorites was displayed, I clicked on the one I wanted and if later, I clicked the Favorites button again, the Links folder was closed
Now the Links folder is open all the time, which is useless in itselfBefore it was like that
now it's like this all the time
ThanksPS: the Other Favorites folder is useless but not possible to remove it
