Windows 10: You can now sign-in and sync favorites with Microsoft Edge on Linux

Brink · Mar 23, 2021

Users can now sign-in and sync their favorites with Microsoft Edge on Linux!

Microsoft Edge on Linux now includes the ability to login with your Microsoft account and sync your favorites, passwords, extensions, and more! As an insider, we would love your feedback on how well this experience works for you.

Enable Microsoft Sign-in and Sync

By default, sign in and sync is disabled, but enabling it is easy. Head on over edge://flags and search for and enable the âMSA sign inâ experiment.

Login with your Microsoft account and enable Sync

Now that things are enabled, you can login.

Select the profile image in the browser taskbar.

Select Sign in on the profile dialog.

Sign-in by entering your Microsoft account details.

Note: AAD accounts are not supported yet.

Select Sync when you are asked if you want to sync your account. This syncs your favorites, passwords, and other browsing data across the devices you use with this account.

Note: Sync will take a few seconds. If you click on your profile image, the sync status is displayed.

Now, we can see Sync is on and our favorites are available!

We really want to hear from you!

We are interested in hearing about your experience with the Microsoft account sign-in and sync feature. You can use Microsoft Edgeâs Send Feedback tool by clicking on the profile image, or through the â¦ menu under Help and feedback > Send feedback. Or you can leave a comment on this article.

What if this feature causes issues with my browser?

Given this feature is part of Edgeâs DEV channel, we wanted to make sure you are well prepared for any potential issues. The mitigations listed below should be attempted from the top to bottom as they become increasingly destructive to your local data (i.e. favorites, passwords, extensions, etc.).

My browser is not behaving correctly since I logged in and enabled Sync.

Navigate to "Manage profile settings" (which will claim it is "Setting up sync" for your profile) and "Sign out" your account, but leave the favorites/history/etc.

Navigate to edge://flags/#edge-msa-sign-on-enabled and mark the "MSA sign in" flag as "Disabled". Restart as suggested.

My browser crashes when I launch it since I logged in and enabled Sync.

Launch edge with: --disable-features=msOneAuthEnableMSALSignInOnLinux

Navigate to edge://flags/#edge-msa-sign-on-enabled and mark the "MSA sign in" flag as "Disabled". Restart as suggested.

Navigate to "Manage profile settings" (which will claim it is "Setting up sync" for your profile) and "Sign out" your account, but leave the favorites/history/etc.

Disabling things as described above did not work for me.

Note: This option will delete all your favorites, passwords, extensions, etc.

Try deleting your Profile folder.

~/.config/microsoft-edge-dev/Profile*

Deleting my Profile folder did not work for me.

Note: This option will delete your local browser settings. The next time you launch the browser you will get the first run experience again.

Try deleting everything.

~/.config/microsoft-edge-dev/

~/.cache/Microsoft/

~/.cache/microsoft-edge-dev/

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Source: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/...ft/m-p/2230134

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Arul_D · Mar 23, 2021

Sync Favorites in Edge is not working

Hi Clark,

Welcome to the Microsoft Community.

I would suggest you to refer to the below Microsoft help article on how to sync favorites in Microsoft Edge.

You can sync between devices, but not between IE and Edge.

Sync favorites and reading list in Microsoft Edge

Let us know if you need further assistance and we’ll be more than happy to help you.

Have a great day.

Mike McCollister · Mar 23, 2021

Microsoft Edge Favorites Not Syncing

OK. I've made some progress here. I had to uninstall edge and reinstall it as described at

http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-reinstall-microsoft-edge-in-windows-10/.

A few things that I had to do different...

I changed my standard user account to an admin account before I did this. I changed it back when done.

I uninstalled all extensions before I did this. I reinstalled them when done.

Step 6: I booted into safe mode before I did this so that I could delete the Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe folder.

I did this to both computers. I then imported the favorites from IE11. After the computers synced then some favorites went away. I then deleted all favorites and them both Edge browsers sync between computers. I then reimported the favorites, added some
to the favorites bar, including folders, and all has synced now.

So far so good.

Mike

Liezl Fal · Mar 23, 2021

Edge Settings and Favorites Not Syncing

Hi,

Please check out the answer of BeefRWijker from this link:
Favorites not Syncing in Microsoft Edge between PC/Laptop for your reference.

For additional readings, please check out this link:
Sync Favorites and Reading List in Microsoft Edge

We're here for your feedback.

Regards.

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