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farazd1
Copper Contributor
Apr 20, 2020

Enable Favorites Bar policy recommended set to only on new tabs

Hi,

 

I am currently testing the latest stable release of Edge and have found that when I set Enable Favorites Bar policy as Recommended, it sets it to "Only on new tabs" is there any way to get it to Always display?

 

 

  • Joachim_T's avatar
    Joachim_T
    Iron Contributor
    Apr 20, 2020

    farazd1 

     

    The Policy seems to be broken since 81.0.416.58

     

    With 81.0.416.53 it worked quite fine. Seems here is an new bug.

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      farazd1
      Copper Contributor
      Apr 20, 2020

      Joachim_T 

       

      Thank you, looks like they fix one thing and then break another with these updates

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        Joachim_T
        Iron Contributor
        Apr 20, 2020

        farazd1 

         

        Yes. Happens much to often in my opinion. It scares me that the main enterprise applications depent on this instable moving target soon. it will let me overthink my rollout plans

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    JillianK
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    Nov 05, 2020

    farazd1 AndrewSAIF  Thank you for your patience as we look into this! I wanted to make sure I have the correct understanding of the behavior you're experiencing and how that meets or does not meet your expectations. 

     

    When setting a policy as Recommended, this will not change existing settings for previous installs. However, the user will be able to tell whether their current option matches or diverges from the recommended setting when they view the option in edge://settings. 

     

    Are you still experiencing this issue? If so, would you be able to help me understand the steps you're taking to test this policy out? Thanks for your feedback and engagement.

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      AndrewSAIF
      Iron Contributor
      Nov 13, 2020

      JillianK 

      Hi Jillian,

       

      Thanks for checking in. I understand that setting a recommended policy does not override a user's currently selected setting. The bug is that there are 3 possible user-facing selections for this setting, and 2 options available when adding a recommended policy. One of the options in policy is not mapped to the correct user setting. 

      Selecting a value of '1' in policy should set the 'Show favorites bar' setting to 'Always', but it instead sets it to 'Only on new tabs'. 

      When we deployed Edge, we made the decision to just make the Favorites Bar mandatory to avoid this bug, so I haven't dealt with this recently. But I was able to duplicate the issue on Edge Dev 88 just now. 

      It should be possible to duplicate the issue by setting Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge - Default Settings (users can override)/Enable Favorites bar to 1 (enabled), then deleting the %appdata%\Microsoft\Edge (version)\User Data folder to replicate a first run experience. The favorites bar will be visible initially, but will hide itself. When you view the setting in Settings>Appearance, it will be set to 'Only on new tabs'. 

       

      Let me know if more detail is needed. Thanks!

       

      Andrew

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        JillianK
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        Nov 26, 2020

        AndrewSAIF 

         

        Hi Andrew,

         

        Thanks for the added detail-- I'm able to reproduce the issue on my end as well. I'll investigate with our engineering team and report back with any progress. Your feedback is much appreciated!

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