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ChromeRefugee
Iron Contributor
Nov 06, 2021

Why are custom search engines not synchronized?

Custom searches in Edge are super handy, but on every new machine I need to manually set them up again. Can these please be added to the list of things that are synched through our MS accounts? I don't understand why this isn't near the top of the to do list, if it's even on it at all. 

 

For me it's only 10 that I regularly use, but it's still a pain. Next machine: my new Surface Laptop Studio. Everything I need is synchronized, except search engines. 

 

9 Replies

    • ChromeRefugee's avatar
      ChromeRefugee
      Iron Contributor
      Hey Alexandra, thanks for the response. I think this kind of thing the team should discuss. It's a setting that's available in Edge, so if the goal is to synchronize all settings, this should simply be included.
      The cynic in me thinks that such a handy advanced feature is not used enough (and not advertised enough tbh), so MS will simply let it languish and not work on improving it. I hope I'm wrong though!
      • yanngrylls's avatar
        yanngrylls
        Copper Contributor
        I was thinking of creating a post about it and people are already talking.

        This feature should have been active for a long time.

        Chrome has always had it, it's too bad to keep re-registering everything on each machine.

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