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Why are custom search engines not synchronized?
edge://settings/searchEngines 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.
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Hi ChromeRefugee, I have submitted your suggestion here: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/51200319-986f-ec11-a81b-6045bd7bf64c and linked back to this post.
Anyone want this feature to be implemented are welcome to upvote and share it. Thank you!
Ken- Will we have an update?
- it's so simple, why isn't it active yet?
Hey there ChromeRefugee! This is actually a great suggestion to submit over on our new Feedback Portal! You've got a really great point on the utility of this too, especially when you have even a few different search engines configured.
Alex Rowell (she/her)
Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
Discuss Stable features and issues on the answers.microsoft.com forums, join us on Twitter, or join the communities over on Reddit in r/MicrosoftEdge or r/edge- 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!- 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.
