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Drew1903 Ahhhh! Thank you so much for noticing! We have turned this feature back on in our Canary channel, but are still working on bringing this to our Dev channel. I'm sure you're used to this broken record phrase, but sync is absolutely our top priority right now.
If there's anyone in here who is currently on Dev, please sign out of your browser and sign back in. Let me know if you see favorites sync enabled under ... > Settings > Profiles > Sync.
Missy Quarry (she/her/hers)
Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
Hi MissyQ thanks for the good news,
so favorite sync is back up, does it mean that the problems mentioned in here:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Top-feedback-summary-for-December-17/m-p/1070731
Are fixed now?
"Favorites sync issues, including sync not working, deleted favorites reappearing, and favorites being duplicated" - planned for December
- MissyQDec 20, 2019Former Employee
HotCakeX Yes, those two items in particular should be resolved, but I see in a follow up comment above that we may still have things to sort out.
dvdwnd Appreciate you following up here! Have you signed out and signed back into the browsers? If you have, try clearing out the duplicates that you see in only one of the browsers. That should clear up what you're seeing after syncing again, but if it's not I want to hand that over to the right people. 🙂
Missy Quarry (she/her/hers)
Community Manager - Microsoft Edge- dvdwndDec 21, 2019Brass Contributor
MissyQ I get a bit worried when I hear that you think you've fixed the duplication problem. This is what I did:
- Signed out of all 5 installs (same MS account, 2*(Can+Beta) + 1 * Dev)
- Signed in on one Canary again.
- Deleted hundreds of duplicates using the extension suggested by HotCakeX, as I've done many times now.
- Signed in on one Beta install - duplicates now reappear on Canary, and remain on Beta.
- Signed in on the remaining installs - all duplicates are still there. Collections not syncing between the two Canary installs.
- While signed in everywhere, deleted all duplicates again with the extension on one of the Canary installs.
- The other 4 installs now sync (!) and have almost the same set of Favorites.
- Tried signing out/in again - Favorites stay the same (for now).
Now, there is no trace of the duplicate deletion feature that was mentioned in the blog post - I have to use a tool to delete them. We'll see if this lasts, because I had all duplicates reappear yesterday when I installed a new Beta.
To sum up:
- Good: Favorites are syncing across all channels, and pretty fast too.
- Bad: Duplicates must be removed manually, and display order of Favorites is slightly different between installs. Tabs set aside and Collections don't sync at all.
After literally years of Edge sync woes, it will take some time of glitch-free use before I definitely call this "fixed". Maybe it is, or maybe I'll have all duplicates appear once more. Fingers crossed!
- HotCakeXDec 21, 2019MVP
Tabs set Aside don't sync?
but that feature isn't even on the new Edge (Chromium) to begin with...Thanks for testing the favorite syncing, so basically it's all the same as they were 5-6 months ago..