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New Feature in Edge: Provide option to keep specific cookies when closing Edge browser
This feedback item is now available in Microsoft Edge Version 83.0.470.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit)
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Planned for March | Provide option to keep specific cookies when choosing to clear browsing data on close | 19 weeks |
edge://settings/clearBrowsingDataOnClose
You've allowed the following sites to save and read cookies on your device. Cookies for these sites won't be cleared when you exit the browser.
Also more explainers added to the cookies page to help understand what the options exactly do
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HotCakeX wrote:Also more explainers added to the cookies page to help understand what the options exactly do
in Edge Version 83.0.470.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit)
The only thing that concerns me is that for security reasons it does not encrypted the website address and leaves them for anyone that is snooping to see.....
But then again, does it really matter....
Dennis5mile
- Website addresses don't need to be encrypted, they are publicly known to everyone.
they are not passwords to be secret
Can you please help me understand the difference between the two screenshots?
Do both features accomplish the same? For example, on the second screenshot, what's the effect of adding websites under Allow (e.g., [*.]microsfot.com)? If I select "delete all cookies" will the Allow cookies remain and not be deleted?
I don't understand the difference between the new feature (first screenshot) and the second (old feature). Thanks!!
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Watney wrote:Can you please help me understand the difference between the two screenshots?
Do both features accomplish the same? For example, on the second screenshot, what's the effect of adding websites under Allow (e.g., [*.]microsfot.com)? If I select "delete all cookies" will the Allow cookies remain and not be deleted?
I don't understand the difference between the new feature (first screenshot) and the second (old feature). Thanks!!
Hello,
they are actually the same,
when you add a site to be excluded from cookies deletion on close in this page:
edge://settings/clearBrowsingDataOnClose
you will see the same site being listed in here: edge://settings/content/cookies
- hahahaha.... I looked before I posted on this to see if you had already posted but did not see this, which is why I posted.. Cool...
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Dennis5mile wrote:
hahahaha.... I looked before I posted on this to see if you had already posted but did not see this, which is why I posted.. Cool...
Dennis5milesorry I didn't understand what you said,
my post is from 2 hours ago, yours is 15 minutes ago.
- Meaning I did not find this post of yours before I posted mine. Otherwise I would not have posted mine if I had seen your post on this subject....
Dennis5mile
Look in your settings and be sure that the switch for "Site Permissions" is OFF.
Privacy and Services > Clear Browsing Data > Choose what to clear every time you close the browser
I was having the same issue. In another post here, we worked out the problem and josh_bodner has filed it as a bug.
- Which channel/version?
HotCakeX DEV 83.0.478.5
TrafGib We have configured and enabled this policy https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#clearbrowsingdataonexit . It is not possible - as far as I know - to configure each setting individually. That would be nice!
So it works if the URL is excluded via GPO as well (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#cookiesallowedforurls).
HotCakeX Even though I have the Auto Login box checked, every time I go to Webmail, instead of automatically logging me in, a message saying an “unhandled error has occurred …” appears. This started after a recent Windows update. Auto Login works fine with Firefox & Chrome. At Cookies and other site data I have entered the URL & turned on the switch. That didn’t fix anything. In fact another site whose Auto Login was not affected by the Windows update, started requiring it after I had added the webmail URL. I went back & added the newly affected site under Cookies and other site data, now the auto login works for it, but still not the webmail.
Site permissions & all of the other switches in the column are turned off. I read the thread at:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/new-feature-in-edge-provide-option-to-keep-specific-cookies-when/m-p/1265153 but am still not able to fix the problem, help. ThanksActually it is still very much there........
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Dennis5mile
