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NEW Feature: Favorite/Bookmark Duplicates Removal option Added
Another new feature in Edge Canary Version 81.0.411.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit), Favorites/Bookmarks Duplicate removal option if you click/touch the Favorites button on toolbar ...
jweiss1113 wrote:HotCakeX I have well over 2400 favorites & favorite folders. I am running Edge Dev 84.0.488.1, but this has been happening since at least v82. When I choose Remove Duplicates now, it simple takes FOREVER, then crashes out. I have at least 5 Win 10 PCs that are syncing the Favorites. It used to work and clean them out. Now it just fails.
Maybe we could designate one computer as the Master copy and allow the others to do a one time pull from it, then restart syncing after that...
I totally feel what you're going through because I've been there numerous times..
I don't know why Edge developers are not actively talking about favorites, duplicates, sync issues etc.
they are the most important subject because they are directly related to user data.
I really think they should remove the duplicate removal feature from Edge completely and instead of that, Fix the sync properly and completely so that the duplicates won't happen again.
Edge shouldn't even allow duplicates to be created/added/imported in the first place.
among all the popular browsers that I've used, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi etc. none of them had a duplicate removal feature.
simply having this feature inside a browser suggests that disasters are like to happen at some point.
Deletedcould you please escalate this issue? thanks
FYI for me the duplicate remover tool isn't just about fixing issues created by edge but also clearing out duplicates that I've had in my collection since forever nd imported from Chrome. I've used Chrome extensions in the past to do this, but hoped a built-in option would be better/more reliable. Any alt suggestions appreciated 😉
Thanks.
- I agree, I have dups from old imports over a long time. I was hoping it would clean them out.
My list, now that it's doubled & tripled, is simply too big. I am getting an SBOX out of memory error.
