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Provide different options for sorting favorites - Discussion
Thanks so much to everyone who provided feedback and thoughts around how to sort their favorites! We’ve recently implemented the ability to sort your favorites alphabetically via the . . . menu in the full page experience for Favorites. To do this, you can either click on the star icon in your toolbar and select Manage favorites, navigate to the . . . menu > Favorites > Manage favorites, or you can hold Ctrl+Shift+O to bring up the page.
Once on the full page experience for your Favorites in builds 83+, you will see a . . . menu at the top right. Click that, and you should see an option for Sort by name.
screenshot of the Favorites page, highlighting where the option to sort is in the menu
We believe that this covers one point of feedback for sorting favorites, however we want to know more. Does this sorting option work for you? Are there other sorting options you’d like to see in Edge? Let us know here or by providing your feedback through the feedback tool that’s built into Edge.
MissyQ
I interpreted this feature as a way to sort the list of favorites for searching purposes only and did not expect it to permanently change the ordering of my favorites. Thankfully Ctrl+Z worked to revert back.
I would like to suggest the phrasing be changed to something like "Reorder by name" instead of "Sort by name" to make it very clear that the favorites will be reordered everywhere and not just temporarily on the current Favorites tab.- or even better, a confirmation dialog
MissyQ Definitely would like to see an option to sort favorites by Most Frequently Used. Now, when I add a favorite, I have to go back in all the way to the bottom of the list and drag it back up to the top if I want it to be handy. With this sorting improvement, after using it for a while, it would migrate to the top and the less used ones would migrate to the bottom. Thanks!
I previously submitted feedback that you should be able to right click a folder on your Favourites Bar and sort your favourites there as well.
You can drag favourites inside a folder on the Favourites Bar, but after doing so, the folder closes. It would be better if it would stay open so that you could drag multiple items if required.
Does not work on my dell win-7-64
I have FOCUSED, INSPIRATIONAL, Informational, custom
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Subject: Re: Provide different options for sorting favorites - Discussion (Microsoft Tech Community Subscription Update)Hi RexRocky,
- you're thinking of the top sites (aka quick links) section on the new tab page.
- Is if there's a confirmation dialog when you sort by name? I might accidentally click on that and I like the way my favourites are sorted currently.
Is any work being done on the performance of the React pages? Scrolling history, downloads and favourites is painfully slow because the cards have to "load in" and I figure that find on page (not search) doesn't work well either. And Google has tried that card design before and they switched to larger cards that contain more information.
