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'Settings' wants to sync but I see no proof of it!

Edwin said:

'Settings' wants to sync but I see no proof of it!

IIRC - the "Settings" item shown within "Sync" initially appeared as active in build 169 (it was not active prior to that). Build 169 was issued Friday (5/24/2019). One can reasonably infer from this that MS is "currently" actually doing some development work specifically in the Sync and Settings area. Hopefully, this would imply that we will see some further improvement in the Sync capabilities perhaps in the coming week...at least one can hope so...

swarfega said:

The sync is still in early development and is certainly not finalised.

According to a direct email to me from Feedback issued many times, Favorite/Bookmark SYNC should be working without too many issues (their words)....SYNC of other Settings and Passwords, Extensions, History, Addresses etc, that is another issue and has not been activated....except for 'Settings' toggle on last Friday Canary build and I cant work out what Settings it is meant to sync with or its purpose. :)

Yes setting the Flash to Off stopped that annoying Flash Banner advice at every Edge Browser start up..

Anyway on my SYNC crusade for Favorites/Bookmarks (well it is for me)...
For those interested, I now have 6 Devices running perfectly with just under 4,000 Favs/Bookmarks each across all of them on the same Hotmail Account., obviously must have all the basics on (Sync blue on toggles).

What I did find with some of my older/slower PC's (in particular), all running same OS, W10 Pro 18898 Insider with latest Canary build....was the SYNCING of Favorites would not occur AFTER Cold Boot and leaving PC to 'settle' for some time,
I tried the 'refreshing" of them in ''Favs Manager'' and nothing would update.

What did force the updates was to either add a (one) new Favorite anywhere or just do a slight change to the Name/Title of any one Favorite.... Then straight away all Favs on that device were instantly updated, meaning olds Favs removed and new Favs added in correct location/Folder.

Once Synced I could then ADD new and Delete old Favorites and would instantly Sync/Update across all 6 Devices.

Anyway, I know no big one, but for me it is.

But yeah just in passing this Edge Chrome will be a GREAT Browser, definitely faster than Google, Firefox, IEx, Edge, Opera. I just hope MS does not break it with an overload of crap nobody uses.

ROTARY said:

Anyway on my SYNC crusade for Favorites/Bookmarks (well it is for me)...
Then straight away all Favs on that device were instantly updated, meaning olds Favs removed and new Favs added in correct location/Folder.

Once Synced I could then ADD new and Delete old Favorites and would instantly Sync/Update across all 6 Devices.

Anyway, I know no big one, but for me it is.

I agree sync, at least on Canary is improving. I am also seeing that changes to favorites on Canary are now being reflected to Android Edge beta almost instantly. I had always found Edge Android favorite syncing to be a mess, welcome changes.

76.0.173.0 (Official build) canary released...