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edgesuggestions
Iron Contributor
Oct 03, 2020

optional suggestion: new menu bar app for mac

i wish i could launch one of my edge profile (no matter from which edge) directly in the menu bar. so you create a profile launcher.app and then i can search a profile installed on my 4 browser, without need to launch a browser.

 

at the moment we can do similar things once the browser is launched using the dock icon or using the sync icon or using the menu bar option inside edge. but there is still the limit that we can do it for one browser. we cannot search profiles installed on all 4 browser.

 

plus every time you launch the browser, you open the last used profile. so we first need to close and then switch (which requires time). profile switching is slower in edge compared to google. 

 

now with this new app you would simply launch a profile inside an edge app, without launching the previous profile. 

 

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  • HotCakeX's avatar
    HotCakeX
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    Oct 10, 2020
    On Windows you can create shortcuts to different profiles and pin them to desktop, start menu and taskbar, can't you do that on mac?
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      edgesuggestions
      Iron Contributor
      Oct 10, 2020

      i don't see such options, but at the end my desktop or dock are already full of alias or application or folder or other things.

      Alias for profile is ok if you own 2-5 edge profiles (so it wouldn't take a lot of space on the desktop too). is like using alias for websites, is not a good solution if you visit a lot of websites. 

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        HotCakeX
        MVP
        Oct 10, 2020

        We talked about Alias in the other post and what they are for.
        you can create different profiles on Edge but don't need to connect them to online accounts and sync passwords, favorites etc.

        Outlook aliases are to protect your identify from 3rd party sites by keeping you anonymous, right? if you could sync data and start adding personal information to it, it wouldn't be anonymous anymore, it would be just like your main Microsoft account. so this is the mentality behind Outlook aliases.

        for shady websites that you don't trust, you can always use temporary Emails from sites like this:
        https://temp-mail.org/en/

         

        Also, another example. Firefox has a feature called container. it works just like Edge profiles (as long as they are offline profiles). you can't connect Firefox containers to an online profile and they don't support sync. that is to protect your identity.

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