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Michael_Buchner
Brass Contributor
Oct 11, 2019

Syncing tabs / Sending tabs to another device

There is just one reason why I'm not able to migrate from FF to Edge Chromium: Syncing tabs or sending tabs to another device is not yet implemented! Is it already on the roadmap?
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    HotCakeX
    Oct 11, 2019

    Michael_Buchner 

    A supplementary answer to your question, you can use the Share function in the Edge insider browser And the Your Phone app on your mobile phone to send tabs and links to your devices.

     

    This way is different from browser syncing and can be used right now

     

    These instructions are from Edge insider Version 79.0.301.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit)

     

    Step 1, click on the Ellipsis menu on the top-right corner of your browser

     

     

    Step 2 - select Your Phone app from the list

     

     

    Step 3

     

    Step 4

     

     

    Let me know how it goes,

    here is the official help regarding the Your Phone app

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4459358/windows-10-your-phone-app-help

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audech
Copper Contributor
Jul 20, 2020

Same for me - having tab sync across devices would be the killer feature for me. To specify, it would need to be similar to Firefox in that there is an up-to-date list of tabs open on each device which I could pull from (not actively push to) any other device and choose to open one or more specific tabs. As opposed to Chrome, which is history based and thus utterly useless for my intended use case (continue browsing where I left off on any device, but not on tabs closed some time in the past). https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/top-feedback-summary-for-july-15/m-p/1524346 now mentions "sync of browsing history".

So is this what I described above (currently open tabs, not history) worked upon at all? If yes, I will continue to watch this space... 

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