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Syncing tabs / Sending tabs to another device
A supplementary answer to your question, you can use the Share function in the Edge insider browser And the Your Phone app on your mobile phone to send tabs and links to your devices.
This way is different from browser syncing and can be used right now
These instructions are from Edge insider Version 79.0.301.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit)
Step 1, click on the Ellipsis menu on the top-right corner of your browser
Step 2 - select Your Phone app from the list
Step 3
Step 4
Let me know how it goes,
here is the official help regarding the Your Phone app
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4459358/windows-10-your-phone-app-help
HotCakeXwhat about sending a tab from PC to tablet, does it work to? Edge on Android is able to send the tab to any device, Edge on PC seems to support sending to my phone only.
but as of now, it's still unavailable even in Canary channel
HotCakeX Open tab sync is now available in Edge Stable but if you don't want to sync all open tabs but only want to send a tab from Win 10 device 1 to Win 10 device 2, it still won't work. You're just able to send an open tab/page to my smartphone.
- Hi again,
i think i replied to you on the other thread ^^
so when you open the history flyout or sidebar by clicking on its icon on Edge toolbar, there is a section called "Tabs from other devices"
in there you should be able to see tabs from other devices that are open, and open them on another device.- Hi,
I know that feature and it's really pretty cool but imagine the following use case:
You've found an interesting page on your mobile phone but it's easier to read on the desktop and want to send it to the desktop and close the tab on the mobile phone. In this case you don't want to grab a tab that is open on the mobile phone (because it's no longer open) but you want to go ahead on the desktop with the tab you have received from the mobile phone. Got it? 😉
Have a look at Firefox, here you can send a tab to another device without need to leave it open.
- Any news on the sync open tabs feature? Seems it was already in Canary some months ago?! https://pureinfotech.com/enable-open-tabs-sync-edge-chromium/
Same for me - having tab sync across devices would be the killer feature for me. To specify, it would need to be similar to Firefox in that there is an up-to-date list of tabs open on each device which I could pull from (not actively push to) any other device and choose to open one or more specific tabs. As opposed to Chrome, which is history based and thus utterly useless for my intended use case (continue browsing where I left off on any device, but not on tabs closed some time in the past). https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/top-feedback-summary-for-july-15/m-p/1524346 now mentions "sync of browsing history".
So is this what I described above (currently open tabs, not history) worked upon at all? If yes, I will continue to watch this space...
