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Select a default profile to open external links in
Avi Vaid It would be great if the browser was context-aware of logins from the application sending the URL.
E.g. If a user is logged into Microsoft Word as user foo, it should open the browser using the profile for foo. If the user is logged into Microsoft Word as user foo2, it should open the browser using the profile for foo2.
The decision tree is obviously more complicated than this (what do you do if foo2 doesn't have a profile in Edge?), but carrying the identity from one application to another--while letting multiple identities exist in the same user session on Windows--would be very helpful.
99.99% of the programs available on Windows won't be using it because signing into Microsoft account is available mostly for Microsoft products (Microsoft UWP apps, Office package etc).
it won't support any other Email program, any Adobe programs, Autocad programs, Discord, Steam etc.
HotCakeX Perhaps, but I and many other users use Microsoft products more than 0.01% of the time. I open links from Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint multiple times a day.
It's an interesting larger problem. Multi-user operating systems were a Big Thing when they came out all those years ago, but now we have users who have distinct identities but whose workflow is shattered every time they have to log out and login.
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USMA56795 wrote:HotCakeX Perhaps, but I and many other users use Microsoft products more than 0.01% of the time. I open links from Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint multiple times a day.
It's an interesting larger problem. Multi-user operating systems were a Big Thing when they came out all those years ago, but now we have users who have distinct identities but whose workflow is shattered every time they have to log out and login.
That's what Single Sign On (SSO) is for
