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pneenkoalabear
Iron Contributor
Jan 02, 2020

Session restore should work with virtual desktops

Right now, if you have windows spread out across multiple virtual desktops and update (or apply a flag or something) it relaunches them on only one desktop. This is very messy and makes updating a ni...
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Jan 03, 2020

pneenkoalabear Hmmm, interesting. A couple questions for you:

  1. Can you give us more detail about what exactly you're looking to see?
  2. Are you an enterprise or general audience user for the browser?
  3. Could you elaborate more on the scenarios (which updates and flags) that caused this behavior?

Thanks!

 

Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge

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AMDphreak
Copper Contributor
Jul 13, 2023

Doesn't matter if he is enterprise or general audience. This functionality has been working JUST FINE in Firefox for 7 years. It is astounding that Microsoft has not tested this use case with their own software.

The usefulness of this is extremely obvious. Nobody wants to have to sort their windows back into the appropriate virtual desktop after rebooting.

Virtual desktops are intended to DIVIDE activity into separate categories, roles, or workflows. Nobody wants all of their work browser windows suddenly collapsing into their non-work virtual desktop just because they had to reboot to update Windows.

My Virtual desktops are Main, Flutter, Business, Drop Shipping, and Misc. When I log in to my machine and open up Edge, all those tabs and windows I opened in other Virtual Desktops better still be on those desktops. It only takes 1 extra logic step to implement this feature.

 

and yet ..... ..... It is 3 years later and nobody has implemented this extremely obvious feature.

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