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josh_bodner
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Jan 08, 2020

Dev channel update to 81.0.381.0 is live

Welcome to the new year!  Today we’re releasing build 81.0.381.0 to the Dev Channel, which as you can see is the first new build from major version 81.  We haven’t been completely asleep during the h...
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Chris Childerhose
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Moseph_V josh_bodner 

 

I see the same thing with the DEV build where Favourites sync is off and grayed out.  I have even uninstalled with removing all data then reinstalled to fix it, but it remains the same.

 

Is there a trick to turn this ON?  It is on in Canary and Beta just fine on my system.

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Jan 09, 2020

Chris Childerhose 

Chris Childerhose wrote:

Moseph_V josh_bodner 

 

I see the same thing with the DEV build where Favourites sync is off and grayed out.  I have even uninstalled with removing all data then reinstalled to fix it, but it remains the same.

 

Is there a trick to turn this ON?  It is on in Canary and Beta just fine on my system.

 

Trick? yes, use a VPN from another country like US as it's common in Microsoft products to enable new features in the US first.

I've tried this trick many times and it works. though you need to restart your browser once or twice for it to take effect. if it still doesn't, clear cookies and site data from here: edge://settings/clearBrowserData

 

also please have a look at this topic:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/block-microsoft-from-running-experiments-in-the-microsoft-edge/td-p/1085162

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