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Edge sync across laptops
JimGrisham I assume this is what you mean?
That same info is showing on both devices.
There is also this (which is also the same across devices):
If I am understanding you correctly, if everything checks out I might just have to move my tabs manually?
Yes, that is showing there are 0 tabs being synced in your case.
(There’s a possibility that tab sync may be implemented in the ‘Beta’ or ‘Dev’ versions; I don’t have knowledge either way.)
If you want to manually transfer tabs from one device to another, you can right-click on one of them and select “Save tabs to favorites” and you will be prompted to create a new Favorites folder for them. Those favorites will be synced to your other computer and then you can with a single action open that entire folder of Favorites into tabs in a new window.
So indeed manual, but also semiautomatic, after a fashion.
Best of luck,
- Jim
[I imagine proper tab synchronization is taking a while because it can involve _many_ other things besides the URL and tab order - the developers will have to figure out how to reliably synchronize (or explicitly choose not to synchronize) the many things users may expect to be preserved for _each_ tab and how to deal with conflicts: the forward/backward history stacks for each tab, scroll position, audio/video playback pause position, data entered in forms, cookies, other page data (Javascript timers, variables and ‘Local Data’ folders), etc. It’s quite the ambitious project.]
- Thank you for walking me through this! It was very helpful.