I also have a laptop that lately is hardly used due to a virtual halt in travel, however when I do get into the office and need to do something – I don’t have the profile set up. Some are to the same M365 tenant but different accounts (for example one is a user, one is an admin), some are for client environments, etc. On my daily driver, I have 17 profiles in Edge. If you’re moving from one machine to another, or wiping & re-installing Windows, this can be potentially a frustrating exercise – especially when you have lots of profiles. What I mean by that, is that if you want your profiles on another computer – you need to create each of them, sign in, sync, adjust the sync settings, and hope it all works. Unfortunately, there’s no way to be able to sync the existence of the profile itself. One of the best features of Edge is the ability to sync your profile, including passwords, history, open pages, and more. It gives you the best bits of Chrome, along with the best bits of the old Edge, and then a whole lot more we’ve not had before.Īnyway, I digress, you’re not reading this because you need to be converted. The story is the same for every person I’ve introduced to the browser.

From the first moment I used it, I’ve never gone back to Chrome or Firefox. The new Microsoft Edge built on Chromium is fantastic. From time to time I would need to use Firefox, but those were few and far between. However, I would often find myself using Chrome, especially because of the multiple profile capabilities. Previously I was one of those users who did their best to live with the old/original/legacy Edge that dated back to Windows 8 (originally codenamed “Project Spartan”).

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