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Well either I didn't write clearly, or you just skimmed and didn't read properly.
I made no complaint about the syncing between Android Edge and either EdgeHTML or Chromium Edge. With Chromium Edge a lot of the syncing is there and I assume the rest will appear in due course.
My issue is that these days one needs to use the same browser on both phone and laptop/desktop for the syncing, so Android Firefox and desktop Firefox, or Android Google Chrome and desktop Google Chrome, or Android Edge and (when all syncing is working) desktop Chromium Edge. Which means that it is not enough for the desktop or phone version to be good; they BOTH have to be good.
In my case, Android Edge has a design feature that makes it completely unacceptable to me - bottom controls. I will not use an app with bottom controls. Period. So I will not use Android Edge.
And because of the need for syncing between phone and desktop browser, that means I won't be using desktop Edge, even when all the syncing is working, even if they fix everything else I want in desktop Chromium Edge (like middle-clicking on favorites leaving the menu open). Phone Edge is unacceptable to me because of the bottom controls, so it won't be on my phone for desktop Edge to sync with. It's not a problem with the syncing; it's a fundamental problem I have with Android Edge design means I won't use it, so whether it syncs or not is neither here nor there.
So unless desktop Chromium Edge gains the ability to sync with a browser I will use on my phone, currently Android Firefox or Android Chrome, then desktop Chromium Edge is out of contention as my desktop browser ... and it seems highly unlikely that desktop Chromium Edge will ever sync with Firefox or Google Chrome.
Actually I'm now worrying about Firefox. Currently my default browser on Phone and laptop is Firefox, which is currently fine. But the Android Firefox 'Preview', which is supposedly a development version of the next evolution of the Android Firefox browser, has also adopted bottom controls. Which I will not use. So if the Android Firefox does eventually change to that, I will no longer use it, which will also then mean - for syncing sake - I'll have to give up desktop Firefox too.
But anyway, I wasn't posting here requesting anything, or to engage in debate with other users. I was posting just because if I was on the desktop Chromium Edge team I'd like to know reasons why people didn't use the browser I was creating, or gave up testing it. So I posted to tell them I won't be using desktop Chromium Edge any more or testing it any more, not because of anything it has or hasn't, does or doesn't do; but simply because Android Edge is of a design (bottom controls) I won't use, and browser syncing between phone and desktop/laptop is so important that anything putting someone like me off the phone version means they then automatically drop the desktop version too. So, unless the desktop Chromium Edge dev team go round to the Android Edge team and make them include an option to move the bottom controls to the top, there's actually nothing the desktop Chromium Edge guys can do to get me to use desktop Edge. They can make desktop Edge perfect, and add functions so it'll put out the trash and make and bring me coffee, I still won't use it unless Android Edge loses (or gets an option to lose) the bottom controls.
So, the desktop Edge dev team probably know this, but just in case they haven't thought about it I'm letting them know that some people (like me) will end up not using the desktop browser simply because there is something that those people really don't like abut the design of the Android Edge browser, however good they think the desktop browser is.
