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Unexpected data loss for extensions, local storage, etc. in Edge Beta
I haven't found a similar report, and this is very unusual for me. A few days ago, after I opened Edge, I noticed that all extension icons became default (blank), but others looked fine. Soon mor...
Sharing app data between different Edge channels is an unsupported scenario because new versions of the browser can introduce breaking changes to data formats at any time, and if older versions of the browser encounter that data, they won't know how to handle it and the behavior will be undefined.
This sounds fair, but the backup process of the version downgrade appears to have resulted in unexpectedly data losses, these backup is incomplete and lost is unknowingly. My specific extension's local storage data used to be reset occasionally, I'm not sure if that's related, just.
I expected it to give a warning to refuse to start. I hope this behaves well if users have to downgrade their own user data to an earlier version (instead of a channel), like allowing imports to migrate user data. Sync is good guy, but it has some limitations like size limit and looks unstable / uncontrollable, I miss some history and tabs have changed recently.
I expected it to give a warning to refuse to start. I hope this behaves well if users have to downgrade their own user data to an earlier version (instead of a channel), like allowing imports to migrate user data. Sync is good guy, but it has some limitations like size limit and looks unstable / uncontrollable, I miss some history and tabs have changed recently.
- I believe those backups only capture certain data by design; they're mainly there for businesses who use our defined rollback process, so they only are taken near version change boundaries and thus will be out of date for day to day usage.