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How do you change which profile is the default?
In Edge 81 onward, you can do this natively in the browser. Check out this discussion - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/select-a-default-profile-to-open-external-links-in/m-p/1174768
MicrosoftHi USMA56795 - the short answer, not today.
With that said, profile management is a big topic on this end. We could tweak some shortcuts to maybe open a specific profile when Microsoft Edge launches, but this isn't the end result you are looking for when it comes top URL's from within other apps.
Thanks for the feedback, I'll mark on this end as a feature request to track with profiles. A default profile as you mentioned is a good call out.
Thanks,
DarrenMH
with your profile active, if you pin that occurrence of edge to the task bar, every time you open edge via the task bar you will be in your preferred profile.
- Yes JayCSr you nailed it. Thanks so much for the most simple and fast fix!
- thank you so much JayCSr it works to pin whilst browsing with that instance open
- You can easily create shortcuts to open a specific profile. Create the shortcut using the path:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Dev\Application\msedge.exe" --profile-directory="Profile 1"
I'm trying to find a way to use it as a default profile when clicking in URLs. Today it will use the last used/active profile.- The first profile I created was named "Default". The next ones were named "Profile 1", Profile 2, Profile 3.
- Thanks. If I have two Edge Dev windows open--with 2 different profiles--which is used for opening hyperlinks from other applications? It seems random.
E.g. When replying to this, it picked my work profile window, so I had to log in using my Microsoft account, which defeats the single-sign on experience.
The profile work so far is great, though: keep it up!chris_conley It will open in the latest profile window that were active/used.
I found this thread looking for the same solution. It will be great to have n option to choose a default profile.
MacOS has an app called Choosy that does it.
https://www.choosyosx.com/
