Microsoft Edge’s Profile feature lets you separate your work and personal browsing data. Like Chrome, Edge supports multiple profiles. Microsoft has improved Edge profiles and today, the company has taken a step towards moving tabs to a different profile window in the Canary version.
Till now, Microsoft Edge
- Lets you create different profiles for your needs
- lets you use a dedicated profile to open links
- Supports automatic profile switching for multiple profile users to ensure relevant links to open in a relevant profile by prompting
For a single profile, Edge already allows moving tabs to the desired window. To do this, hold the shift button and select some tabs, right-click and select “move tabs to window ” and choose a window from open Windows listed to move tabs to.
In addition to the above, Edge to allow transferring of tabs to another profile.
Enable move tabs to a different profile window feature in Edge browser
- Launch Edge browser
- Visit edge://flags page
- Search for “Enable move tabs to a different profile window”
- Click on the dropdown arrow and select “Enabled”
- Restart the browser
As of now, the option to move selected tabs to a different Edge profile window isn’t appearing in the tab context menu after enabling the flag. Expect it to appear there or somewhere in the browser UI soon with the next updates.
Do you use multiple profiles in the Edge browser? Whats’ your take on this? Which feature do you want Microsoft to address related to profiles? Let us know in the comments below.
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