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William Devereux
Microsoft
MicrosoftIntroducing the new favorites experience in Microsoft Edge
Favorites are an integral part of any web browser, and in the months since we released the new version of Microsoft Edge we’ve heard a lot of feedback about the experience. Specifically:
While th...
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R_Starzuft wrote:
The issue I am working with is that of recovery. It has become easy to 'nuke' a failing Windows and restore it and (most) of the settings. However, a lot of user material is lost that the is either not in Microsoft orbit (they didn't make it) or that there isn't a function yet to save and recover. I found this with shortcuts I saved to tiles in Win 10 that got lost every time I had to replace the OS due to bluescreen/etc. I ended up with 'cleaned up' Windows but lost my 'tiled' links. Maybe there needs to be clarification on exactly what Windows will recover? Would this be different if you are a 365 / Cloud user vs off-line?
Thus my move to doing shortcuts for the time being. I am looking forward to Collections being fully developed though.
I suggest using Edge to install your favorite websites as apps. You will be able to pin their tiles on Start menu, Taskbar and other places. They are synced with your Microsoft account so when you clean install your OS you can just log into Edge and add their tiles back to Start menu in no time.
Unfortunately that takes up a bunch of room on the taskbar and it significantly impacts the performance of Edge. I often will have a number of tabs open that I need to come back to but also must close down for one reason or another.. the old favorites where I could save all tabs as favorites was a quick and easy solution. Now, there are favorites, workspaces, groups, and collections which all exist for similar reasons. The only one which is quick and easy are the workgroups. And they are abit obscure where they are located.