Windows 10: Microsoft’s Edge browser may be storing private browsing data

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By mistake? Or by design? Hmmmm....Either way, its very troubling!!

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why are random tabs opening up in Edge for no reason

Hi,

I understand the inconvenience you are facing. Let me help you in resolving the issue.

I suggest you clear the Clear browsing data option
of Microsoft Edge and check if you face the issue. To do so perform the steps below.

• Click on the More actions (…) icon next to the feedback icon present on top right corner of the Project Spartan homepage.
• Select Settings and click on Choose what to clear.
• Check the boxes Browsing history, Cookies and saved website data and Cached data and files
  and click on Clear.

Note: You may try to check if the issue persist in the private browsing. Open the EDGE browser, Click on the
More actions (…) button on top right corner of EDGE and click on
New InPrivate Window to browse the internet in private Window.

Hope the information helps.

 

youtube wont work in microsoft edge

Hi Donald,

We appreciate you for being part of Windows 10.

I understand that you are no able to play videos through YouTube on EDGE browser.

We need to know whether face this issue only on YouTube/other websites also.

Before performing below steps, make sure that you have enabled the Adobe flash player on EDGE browser.

Kindly follow the below methods and check if it helps.

Method 1:

I suggest you clear the Clear browsing data option
of Microsoft Edge and check if you face the issue. To do so perform the steps below.

1. Click on the More actions (…) icon next to the feedback icon present on top right corner of the Project Spartan homepage.

2. Select Settings and click on
Choose what to clear.

3. Check the boxes Browsing history, Cookies and saved website data and Cached data and files
and click on Clear.

If the issue still persist, follow the below method.

Method 2:

You may try to check if the issue persist in the private browsing. Open the EDGE browser,
Click on the More actions (…) button on top right corner of EDGE and click on
New InPrivate Window to browse the internet in private Window.

Kindly let us know if you need any further assistance with Windows. We are glad to assist you.

Thank you.

 

Since Firefox, Chrome, Safari and IE all had this 'feature' the fix (if needed) should be quick n easy *Redface

 

I agree, very troubling either way.

 

If it's a mistake, oversight or whatever, that demonstrates a level of incompetence and if it's by design well, no more needs to be said. If it is rectified quickly then I would say mistake but my money is on the latter. When people say PRIVATE I don't think Microsoft thinks it includes them.

After using W-10 for a while I went back to 8.1 and glad I did. Watching all the problems with W-10 just reinforces my decision.

 

Hey Gator, on a serious note, did you have a lot of problems yourself with 10? I agree on some points you make, but after all the initial problems I had and after ironing them out, my system runs incredibly smooth.

As far as Edge goes, its half baked.

 

I used W-10 on one of my machines from the start (8/1/15). Didn't have any total crashes but fairly unstable, but after a couple weeks there was much improvement but I think W-10 is 6-9-12 months away from being a rock solid OS and "YES" I also think Edge is half baked and after a week or so using it I defaulted my system to ie11. If it's not broke don't try to fix it. 8.1 is a fine OS and does everything I will ever need it to do and more and it is rock solid and I don't need to think about what the next update will or will not do. I would never use Cortana or most of the built-in apps that I could not uninstall. I do think the way MS is pushing it is rather despicable. Yes, it is free from Microsoft's perspective but for many, the upgrade has not been free at all. I know of numerous occasions where home users had to take their PC's to a tech to correct problems from the upgrade, so it wasn't free for them. All in all I was very disappointed with W-10 considering all the pre-release hype, I had hoped it was going to something that really knocked your socks off but it's not even close.

 

Kind of the way I felt initially. It took me 6 times to upgrade with all the problems, but most of them were HP related. I uninstalled the HP crap and actually configured my system almost like 7, and not with 3rd party apps!! A few registry hacks and so forth.
I have to say that my system is running just as good, if not better than 7 did.
The forums here ( and Brink in particular ) are second to none as far as resolving issues and getting the most out of the new OS.
Hope to see you upgrade again and enjoy 10 as much as I've learned too.

Edit: I see you have an HP also. Uninstall the HP support and framework and also the HP setup!! The HP setup in particular was causing all the instability for me initially.

 

Brink,

Thanks for the additional info as I seem to find the same response in using Chrome Incognito Window. Just need to remember to make bookmarks for future use.

Thanks,

 

what have you all got to hide lol.
I really don't care, it would make boring reading for anyone bothering to check it

 

I don't care either. There are no top secrets on one of my computers.
And as for spam, I'm "spam ignorant". *Biggrin

 

But don't all browsers have the ability to shut off your history, temporary internet files, and cookies from being saved? This is there to speed up your browsing using cached graphics rather than having to download each time you go to the sites you frequently visit.

 

I can only hope my default browser ,Chrome and alternate Firefox is a little better in these respects outside of Incognito Chrome browsing and they all do some data mining but hopefully a lot of Chrome's local data/ browser sync data /history storage is encrypted but I don't think it is beyond browser cookies and some outgoing data to Google ?

I rarely use Edge ,it's *still*not all that stable or useful to me other than switching into and playing some videos occasionally better than the others browsers do ..... *really

Maybe one of the experts here can illuminate all this browser data security for us .