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Elliot Kirk
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Nov 19, 2019

Importing Tabs and Settings from Chrome

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jgt1942
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Elliot Kirk 

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but I have NOT been able to import all of my open tabs in Chrome to Edge. I think I correctly followed the instructions. I get a message that they are being imported but I don't see any of the tabs in Edge. I expected that all of the Chrome tabs would be opened in Edge.

 

In Edge Profiles/Import browser data I clicked on the "Choose what to import" button and turned on "Open tabs" for this I turned off all other options. Because I had previously run the import I did not want to import them again. I was not sure if this would impact the previous execution of importing.

In the "Learn more about these settings" I see the following:

Select this option to import your Pinned and open tabs from Google Chrome. Imported tabs are added to the current active window of Microsoft Edge. Currently on Windows, Google Chrome needs to be closed for this feature to work.

Chrome was closed, I currently have about 155 open tabs in 55 Chrome windows.

 

I've also encountered several other issues, I'm not sure where to post the questions about them at this time.

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ragged-gothic
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Mar 18, 2023
I 'm having the same problem. I followed the steps as directed above, but I cannot find any of the tabs from the Chrome window in any of the Edge windows I currently have open, not did the open tabs appear as bookmarks. 😕 Where did they go? It'll will be seriously annoying if I have to reopen Chrome and copy the URLs one by one, by hand. >:[
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    effct
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    Apr 06, 2023

    i was able to get the feature to work by closing Chrome first.  With many tabs open, that can take a moment even after the windows have vanished – you can check via the Task Manager (<Win>+<r>taskmgr<Enter>) whether a program has finished terminating.

    Duplicate tabs are lost, tho.

    ragged-gothic even if you can’t get it to work, you definitely don’t have to go through each tab by hand.  As a workaround for this apparent bug, you could right-click the Chrome tab bar and choose Bookmark all tabs…  (No doubt you could find an extension for automating this for all Chrome windows.)

     

    ( The rest may not be worth mentioning:

    1. edge://settings/profiles/importBrowsingData
    2. (re-)import bookmarks
    3. ctrl+shift+O
    4. note that when re-importing bookmarks/favorites, newly added ones will not be sorted into their original position, but appended to the end of the list, so you may have to scroll down to find your bookmarked tabs.
    5. you may want to switch off your WiFi now to prevent straining your pc and filling up its memory by loading all those tabs at the same time
    6. open the whole folder
    7. turn on WiFi again

    )

    (With this method, Edge also purges duplicate tabs, so neither is it perfect in preserving the data unscathed.)

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