Forum Discussion
Favorites Folder Expansion Persistence Changed
In the last few releases, I am currently on Version 94.0.975.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit), the persistence behavior of Favorites folder expansion has changed.
It used to be if I clicked on the triangle to expand a Favorites folder, the folder expansion would persist when I next opened the Favorites menus. But if I clicked on the text of the folder name, it would not persist as expanded the next time I opened the Favorites menu.
I found this behavior to be helpful since it allowed me to choose whether the expansion persisted or not. It also allowed me to avoid a growing first view of Favorites that I have to manually collapse to reduce in size.
It will be helpful to me to bring back the ability to choose the persistence behavior I would like each time I expand a folder.
Alternatively, a setting to be able to choose non-persistent expansion or persistent expansion as the standard would work for me, but would not be as flexible.
I have also submitted through Send Feedback.
- Totally agree, I posted here
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/edge-favorites-menu/m-p/2620162/highlight/true#M48989Thank you for letting me know about your post. I missed it when I searched to see if something similar had been posted.
- Alexandra-R
Microsoft
Hey there!
Standardizing the behavior when clicking different spots on the favorites was intentional. It was generally confusing to users to have what they viewed as the same action (clicking a favorite) lead to different outcomes, so this was standardized. Totally understand that you'd like to be able to choose which behavior occurs, though! It sounds like you've already submitted feedback around this, but for anyone coming into this thread later that would like to see a setting for this or other ways to more granularly control the behavior -- make sure you submit feedback in the browser and let us know 😃
Alex Rowell (she/her)
Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
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Thanks for your reply
In fact, I (and others) have favorites in a folder (Other favorites, Links for me)
Before when I opened the Links folder, Favorites was displayed, I clicked on the one I wanted and if later, I clicked the Favorites button again, the Links folder was closed
Now the Links folder is open all the time, which is useless in itselfBefore it was like that
now it's like this all the time
ThanksPS: the Other Favorites folder is useless but not possible to remove it
- Thank you for your follow up. It would be good to have a response from the Feedback items we submitted. This has been going on for several weeks and has been reported multiple times. Based on your response, we can now see that this change is considered a feature, not a bug.
While not wanting to distract the team from resolving issues, this information would be helpful to avoid reporting the perceived persistence of a "bug". The email acknowledging Feedback submissions includes the sentence "We'll keep you posted on our progress.". I appreciate it when I do receive an update, but it does not happen often.
There will always design decisions that don't reflect individual ways of working. For my way of working, the behavior of the Favorites keeps getting further and further away from the smooth flyout design of the legacy Edge.
That said, I appreciate the continuing progress. The only other feature change that I really miss is the blocking of auto-playing audio and video. Since this is still on the Planned list, I look forward to seeing the implementation.- If it's really a feature and not a bug, being able to create folders to "sty/classify" favorites is no longer of any interest since they are all visible now
