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my phone just broke and i rely on ms edge for all my passwords me who is using ms edge on linux b/c this pc doesnt run win 10 nicely im stuck any idea when acccount syncin is avalable on linux
HotCakeX Good solution for Chrome users.
Bradfordbrad The Microsoft Autofill extension can be added directly to Edge-Linux from the Google Store, and works just fine on Edge-Linux once authenticated/verified. Installing the extension directly on Edge-Linux would save the trouble of installing Chrome.
HotCakeX Fascinating. The fact that the Chrome extension works with Edge-Linux suggests to me that Microsoft is not facing any show-stopping technical impediments to enabling MSA sign-in and sync to Edge-Linux. Do you have any idea why Microsoft has been so slow to implement the feature on Edge-Linux directly?
I guess they couldn't port the same sync functionality from Windows to Linux and had to make fundamental changes to it to be compatible on Linux.
just like when Edge released to Windows it only had favorites sync and the rest came later.
just like when Edge released to Windows it only had favorites sync and the rest came later.
HotCakeX "I guess they couldn't port the same sync functionality from Windows to Linux and had to make fundamental changes to it to be compatible on Linux."
That's probably right. I have the impression that the Edge-Linux team is quite small. So far, what we seem to be getting is whatever the Dev version is from time-to-time without porting of basic features/functions like sign-in and sync.
I'm glad you pointed the way to installing the Microsoft Autofill extension on Edge-Linux. I've been trying to test Edge-Linux on Ubuntu (both bare metal on a laptop running Ubuntu and in a Ubuntu Gnome Box in Solus 4.1 on a desktop) and not being able to sign in or use sync was a real impediment to testing real-work situations. Without the ability to sign-in or sync, I had a toy browser that wasn't much use for testing. Now I can do some serious work with Edge-Linux. Thanks.
How has your Edge-Linux testing been going? If I remember right, you were going to test in a VM on Windows 10. I've found only a few instances (mostly related to rendering) where issues arose, but all of those were in the Gnome Box implementation and did not replicate on the bare-metal installation.
- You're welcome,
it's totally understandable, sync is very fundamental and needed,
I haven't had the chance to test Edge dev on Linux yet, i think I should finally do it 🙂HotCakeX "I haven't had the chance to test Edge dev on Linux yet, i think I should finally do it 🙂"
If you do, I think that you'll be pleasantly surprised. Edge-Linux is almost indistinguishable from Edge-Windows, although Edge-Linux is still missing a lot of basic features available in Edge-Windows.
Again, thanks for pointing me in the right direction on Microsoft Autofill as an Edge-Linux workaround. I passed the information along on two Linux-side forums I participate in, and several others have also tested the solution on Edge-Linux today, and found it workable.
I'm a little surprised that nobody on the Linux-side knew about Microsoft Autofill. I didn't because I don't use Chrome, period. My guess is that none of the others trying to test Edge-Linux use Chrome either, and Microsoft Autofill is not available for Firefox, which has about an 80% market share in Linux. So we didn't know, and your efforts on behalf of Bradfordbrad gave us the clue that we needed to facilitate more realistic testing.