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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
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!
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..
HotCakeX I should be more clear - if you had any tabs set aside in Classic Edge, they are put in a Favorites folder called Tabs set aside at install time, but this folder won't sync. Even if you move items out of that folder, they never sync. I wonder if that is what is causing the slight ordering differences between different installs, since you don't have the exact same set of items on different devices to begin with.
As for the situation being identical to 6 weeks ago, I don't really know. If deleted Favorites no longer return when I update any of the installs (which used to happen), I guess it's an improvement. One thing I did notice during my experiment last night was that if not all browsers were online when I deleted duplicates on one install, they would return as I signed in. I have to do some more testing to see if this is true for any new Favorites.
- Oh, well they are the same as favorites, just on different folders.
i have lots of folders too, doesn't matter what name they have, they must be treated the same.
not 6 weeks ago but 6 months ago. or better yet, just like when Edge browser first launched.
I never had a stable sync, from the day 1 the favorites were duplicated when i used Edge on different devices at the same time.
so in a nutshell, we aren't doing anything wrong, it's only the Edge sync engine Not working as it is supposed to.
I moved all my favorites to google chrome 2 months ago when I lost a huge number of my favorite entries. I had lost some favorites before that as well but this time it was too many.
I lost them because I thought Edge was syncing them to the servers, successfully, because Edge was showing green icon that everything is syncing correctly.
so since then, I have to keep google chrome as a side browser on my computer, just to store my favorites safely on it, and I use Edge insider canary for my daily browser.
I'm saving my passwords to LastPass extension so i can use them on any browser without having to worry about their sync problems and whatnot.
I've been looking for a similar extension, like LastPass, but for favorites, so i could use it to store my favorites in one place and use them in multiple browsers and devices, so far I couldn't find any decent extension that does it.
