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Microsoft Edge Group Policies for lists like Pop-ups do NOT combine -they replace unlike IE?
Microsoftlforbes I've just talked to the team that manages MS Edge policies and got some information.
Right now the experience is by design and aligns with Chrome and other Chromium based browser policies. The team has heard from other customers moving from IE to MS Edge and I have also passed along your scenario.
This is something they plan to investigate and try to improve but right now there is no ETA. Once more information is available we can follow up here. Thank you for your feedback!
-Kelly
Chrome doesn't have official supported updated ADMX Group Policies. It is NOT a corporate browser. It is NOT designed for Group Policy or corporate use.
It is a home based browser and the user made ADMX for Chrome don't work most of the time. For example if you set the home page to "run once" in Chrome it doesn't even set at all.
Edge Chromium is being advertised as a replacement for Internet Explorer in a corporate world. Therefore it should not copy a crappy unsupported home browser.
Please realized that we have IE and we are trying to migrate away from it. I have 86,000 workstations and we cannot upgrade them until they can fix Edge to run like IE.
lforbes glad you're not an admin in my organization - Chrome has for several years had an enterprise package that includes a robust set of GPOs... many of the same GPOs that Edge Chromium uses.
https://chromeenterprise.google/browser/
I know this is an old thread but this is still a problem. Yes Chrome does have enterprise GPOs but that doesn't change the fact that Edge policies should align with behavior from IE if MS expects Edge to be a viable replacement for all scenarios. Aligning it with behavior of Chrome's policies makes no sense; they are two different browsers developed by two different companies. The fact they both use the same underlying engine is irrelevant. The bottom line is, Edge is the default browser in Windows and thus will be the browser many corporate users use by default simply because it's there. Google has never really been known for the "corporate-friendliness" of their products, btw (sort of like Apple). So aligning a feature designed for corporate use with what Google does in their product is most likely going to negatively impact the feature, as it did in this case.
There is even a node in the Edge policies for "Default Settings (user can override)" - why would they not put PopUpAllowList as one of these settings? Having admins set a default set of sites that should allow popups, but then allowing the users to additionally add their own later as needed on top of the list pushed by the GPO is an extremely common use case I would imagine, and can't believe that as of mid-2025 this is still not a thing.
MS ( Kelly_Y ) , 4 years after you said you passed along this feedback to the relevant Team, has there been any movement on this?
