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Saving passwords
In another conversation, I asked why passwords saved in Dev or Canary weren't also saved in the Windows Credential Manager. Eric Lawrence replied thus:
Eric_Lawrence wrote: FWIW, the lack of...
"How can Windows user B use Edge with Windows user A's profile? If there is a way, then there are some really serious implications!"
you answered your question yourself,
one-to-many relationship between browser profile and Windows user accounts.
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Suppose I have two profiles, Burgess 1 for business and Burgess 2 for personal stuff. Whichever one I'm using at a particular time, I might want to sign in to Google using my burgess@gmail.com address as the username. Am I correct in thinking that if I then change the password for the Google account and ask Edge to save it, it will not be updated on the other profile? So I could potentially have many saved passwords for the same site, with no way of knowing which of them is the current one? "
Yes. if passwords were saved in Windows credential manager, then there wouldn't be any difference between which profile you use in Edge, because all of them refer to Windows credential manager to fetch and save passwords. if you changed your Google password from one profile, the other profile would be able to use the same changed password.
2 Edge profiles can operate side by side, when you open another profile, the previous one isn't closed.
Edge uses Windows authentication to stop unauthorized users from accessing your passwords.
that's a security measure different than the rest of this topic. it's not related to any specific user Edge profile, it is to prevent contents of the computer (saved passwords in Edge, no matter which profile) from Other people that are not authorized to use the computer, the device itself. it's on a different layer.
you answered your question yourself,
one-to-many relationship between browser profile and Windows user accounts.
"
Suppose I have two profiles, Burgess 1 for business and Burgess 2 for personal stuff. Whichever one I'm using at a particular time, I might want to sign in to Google using my burgess@gmail.com address as the username. Am I correct in thinking that if I then change the password for the Google account and ask Edge to save it, it will not be updated on the other profile? So I could potentially have many saved passwords for the same site, with no way of knowing which of them is the current one? "
Yes. if passwords were saved in Windows credential manager, then there wouldn't be any difference between which profile you use in Edge, because all of them refer to Windows credential manager to fetch and save passwords. if you changed your Google password from one profile, the other profile would be able to use the same changed password.
2 Edge profiles can operate side by side, when you open another profile, the previous one isn't closed.
Edge uses Windows authentication to stop unauthorized users from accessing your passwords.
that's a security measure different than the rest of this topic. it's not related to any specific user Edge profile, it is to prevent contents of the computer (saved passwords in Edge, no matter which profile) from Other people that are not authorized to use the computer, the device itself. it's on a different layer.