After I updated the app it just keeps on crashing every once in a while but the most infuriating thing is I get logged out from every site and all my site data erased

What's with this update

How can I open links and store them as groups based on the date to which the link was open, and possible the URL of the link ?

I used to keep it bookmarked, but it now wants me to download it as an app separately. Can't find a way to sign in.

I've been working on TextFold, an open-source reader inspired by the idea of stretchtext: start with an overview, then open up the parts you want to read.

The new browser extension is on the Chrome Web Store and supports Edge. With TextFold running, clicking the button captures the current article and opens the reader beside the page. That includes pages you can already access through a login or subscription.

The GIF shows the reading interaction on a Wikipedia article. You can move through five levels, from the full text down to a section overview, then expand a passage for more detail. Full preserves the original text and Brief selects original sentences; the shorter levels are AI-written. Once the levels are prepared, switching between them doesn't need another model call.

I also kept highlights, notes, questions about a selected passage and translation in the reader. The aim is to let you stay with the article while deciding how much detail you need.

For Edge, install TextFold 0.10.40+ first and keep it open, then add the extension from the Chrome Web Store. Edge may ask you to allow extensions from other stores. It's a companion to the app, so the extension alone isn't the full setup.

TextFold is free and Apache 2.0. Reading-level preparation uses Ollama locally or a hosted model you choose; hosted providers receive the text you send and may charge for usage. Page extraction can still miss things on complicated layouts.

Extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/textfold/lkfemlafmabkdjedldmjebdpccdaeglf

App and setup: https://github.com/chenxiachan/textfold#works-in-your-browser

I'm the developer. Would you keep a reader like this beside the source page, or prefer a separate reading tab?

I switched recently from chrome to edge a while ago. I have a streak of 124 days now. Earned 20k Microsoft points.

I wanted to ask yall if there are any features I shud be using. I alr use the vertical tabs and I love it! Ik basic stuff like double ctrl to zoom on an image and ctrl+alr+s and ctrl+shift+s but nothing outside of it. I wish to know more of such handy shortcuts and features.

I am busy with a browser extension that check
In **FormSnipper 3.2.17**, Edge uses the same extension code as Chrome; there’s no Edge-specific copy API.

1. Clicking an individual **Copy** button passes that field’s value to the copy helper. **Copy selected** joins the checked values with newline characters.

2. The helper creates a temporary, off-screen text area in the popup, puts the text in it, selects it, then calls `document.execCommand('copy')`.

3. It removes the temporary text area. If the command reports success, the helper stops there.

4. Only if that command fails or throws does it try `navigator.clipboard.writeText(text)`.

5. On success, the popup updates its status and copied indicators. If both methods fail, it shows an error.

The individual button handler is in `popup.js`; the helper and selected-copy flow are in `popup.js`. This writes through the browser to the system clipboard; it does not call a Windows-specific API or directly control Win+V history.

What is the issue Microsoft has with JPEG-XL? The Photos app in Windows 11 now supports JPEG-XL with HDR, but I haven't been able to find any information regarding support in Edge.

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to troubleshoot a rather persistent Microsoft Edge Sync issue with my personal Microsoft account (@outlook.de). I've been struggling with this for a while and would appreciate some input from anyone familiar with Edge Sync internals, MSA authentication or Microsoft's sync backend. Persists for multiple months now.

Environment

• Windows 11

• Microsoft Edge Stable 157.x (originally affected)

• Microsoft Edge Beta 158.0.4370.16 (installed for troubleshooting, same issue)

• Microsoft Edge on iOS (same issue)

• Personal Microsoft Account (MSA / u/outlook.de)

Important: The issue already existed on Stable 157. I only installed Edge Beta 158 after troubleshooting suggestions, to check whether this might be a version-specific issue. It made no difference.

Symptoms

• Signing into Edge works without any issues.

• Sync is enabled and consent is granted.

• However, synchronization never actually starts.

• The transport state remains permanently stuck at Initializing.

• No bookmarks, passwords or other data are synchronized.

The exact same problem occurs on iOS: signing in works, but synchronization does not.

Signing out and back in on iOS did not resolve the issue.

Edge Sync Internals

Here are the relevant diagnostic results from edge://sync-internals:

Summary

Property |Value
Transport State |Initializing
User Actionable Error |None
Disable Reasons |None
Sync Feature Enabled |true
Setup In Progress |false
Auth Error |OK since browser startup
Sync Account Type |MSA Authentication

Both authentication tokens are successfully requested and received:

MainSyncToken

• Last Token Request Result: OK

• Has Token: true

• Last Token Error: None

• Mapped Auth Error: None

KeyDataToken

• Last Token Request Result: OK

• Has Token: true

• Last Token Error: None

• Mapped Auth Error: None

MSA Account Key Status

This is particularly interesting:

Download Key Result: Success
HTTP Response Code: 200
Process Key Result: success
Set Key Result: Success
Key Count: 10

So downloading and processing the MSA account keys appears to work perfectly.

Encryption

Cryptographer Ready To Encrypt: false
Cryptographer Has Pending Keys: false
Encrypted Types: Uninitialized
Has Keystore Key: false
Passphrase Required: false
Explicit Passphrase: false

Sync Engine

Sync Service:
Last initial state: FeatureCanStart

Sync Engine:
Backend Status: Initializing
BlockReason: Stop
Syncer: ServerReturnTransientError

DataType Manager:
State: Stopped

Network / Server Errors

The sync log repeatedly reports:

HTTP error (503)

and:

Protocol error (TRANSIENT_ERROR)

The configured sync endpoint is:

https://edge.microsoft.com/sync/v1/feeds/me/syncEntities

The server environment reported by Edge is:

Prod_germanywestcentral_prod-s01-010-eur-germanywestcentral

Network Troubleshooting

I also checked basic network connectivity:

Test-NetConnection edge.microsoft.com -Port 443

Result:

TcpTestSucceeded: True

HTTPS connectivity works as well, although a generic HEAD request to the endpoint returns HTTP 400, which isn't necessarily meaningful.

No obvious connectivity issues have been identified.

Additional observation: Microsoft iOS client

I tested Edge on my iPhone using the exact same Microsoft account.

• Sign-in successful.

• Sync does not work.

• Signing out and back in makes no difference.

This makes a Windows-specific profile or installation issue considerably less likely.

Microsoft Support is also having issues

I attempted to contact Microsoft Support through Copilot, but even the support chat failed to initialize:

Chat init request failed: 504

The service behind this page isn't responding to Azure Front Door.

OriginTimeout

Obviously, this is a separate service and I cannot conclude that both failures share the same root cause. Still, it hasn't exactly made troubleshooting easier.

What I've tried / ruled out

• Edge Stable 157 → issue present.

• Edge Beta 158 → same issue.

• Windows network connectivity checked.

• MSA authentication confirmed working.

• MSA account keys successfully downloaded and processed.

• iOS Edge tested with the same account → same sync issue.

• Signing out and back in on iOS → no improvement.

I have deliberately NOT deleted my existing Edge profile or performed another server-side sync reset because I don't want to risk losing existing synchronization data without understanding the underlying issue.

My questions

1. Has anyone encountered this exact combination of successful MSA authentication, successful account key download (HTTP 200), but a permanently stuck sync engine?

2. Could this indicate an inconsistent server-side Nigori / Keystore state associated with my Microsoft account?

3. Is there a way to inspect or repair the server-side MSA Sync state without wiping existing synchronized data?

4. Are there any additional diagnostic logs or endpoints worth investigating?

5. Could someone familiar with Chromium's Sync Engine explain why the cryptographer remains uninitialized even though the MSA account keys are successfully downloaded and processed?

At this point, I'm leaning towards an account-specific or server-side Edge Sync issue rather than a local client or network problem.

Any ideas from Edge insiders, Chromium developers or Microsoft engineers would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Why? Is it that hard to implement such a useful option? Isn't it a default option in Chromium permissions? So, some development time was spent just to remove it from the code?
Edge even has a Sound toggle in the permission menu located in the address bar, but it does absolutely nothing. Brave and Vivaldi don't have this problem when trying to remove permission to play sounds on websites
https://imgur.com/a/mT7CLuv

Can you reproduce this bug? It seems like it started with the edge update to chromium 157 and/or uBO update to 1.76.0, I waited for the latest version 157.0.4341.53 but it didn't bring a fix for that. "Run in private" is already enabled in extension settings.

Have any of you notice this behavior recently? It started a few weeks back for me. I'm in Chrome, open a website, could be any one site and close the browser. I go to Edge and it opens the last website I was on in Chrome. It's getting annoying now. And yes, I'm aware that under the hood they're "basically the same". Both browsers do this. I'm not signed into my Google account in Edge and vice versa.

PLZ PLZ PLZ can someone PLZ help me this has been going on for 2 days now and I have not seen anyone on the internet talk about it or any fixes for it. Basically, when I try to go on a certain website, this comes up instead of the website. It was working fine and like normal before it happened, then while I was on it the tab just randomly refreshed and I was met with this page. If someone has any knowledge on why this could be happening or how to fix it I would really really appreciate it please.

collections were the one edge feature i saw people really miss when it went away. so where did yours end up?

favorites folders, onenote, some read later app, or did they just quietly disappear lol

mostly curious if anyone found something that works the same way for keeping a bunch of pages together per project

Hello Community,

Posting an update to my extension and not continuing it in the same thread because this is a huge update (and also ChatGPT recommended it!)

I had recently introduced HueMark a browser extension that would allow you to search six words or phrases simultaneously and now I would like to introduce an update v0.2.0 please read below for detailed update.

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftEdge/comments/1xbmwp6/i_would_like_to_introduce_huemark_multiword/

• One of the biggest flaws in my design was that HueMark was always on by default for all tabs in a browser but now it has the ability to be switched on and off per tab and default will start as off. It is a minor inconvenience, but I hope users see the value in the change.

• Also, one permission request has been added for context menus it allows you to select a word or phrase and send it directly to HueMark as a search term from mouse right click.

• Also added copy mechanism where you can copy a snippet, sentence or paragraph which contains the sedarch term and it gets saved to you clipboard to paste wherever you want. First click scans the website or document and second click copies to clipboard for pasting.

• You can save up to 10 lists with 6 words each

• Added support for citations (does not support everything mentioned and need help with those that need work any one willing to step up to support this would be awesome!)

Download:

Edge: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/huemark-multiword-high/kgfekpgoffpafdpopoeelmcnjdpgiakc

Major updates v 0.2.0

• Permissions: HueMark now asks for one new permission, contextMenus, so the browser may ask users to approve the update.

• Right-click "Add selection to HueMark".

• Per-tab on/off: Every tab now starts OFF, and you switch it on from the popup or the bar's power button. This replaces the global Enabled checkbox. Only tab numbers are kept, in session memory, so no sites or URLs are stored.

• Bar button: The bar's close button is now "Hide bar". It hides the bar and leaves the highlights on.

• Copy matches: One button scans and then clicking it again copies every hit as rich text or plain text, with context. It skips nav bars, sidebars and reference lists.

• Passage modes: Snippet, Sentence or Paragraph. Passages that contain several terms are grouped under one header.

• PDF.js update: The bundled PDF.js is now 6.4.299, up from 6.3.289.

• Wildcards and regex: * and ? work as wildcards, and /pattern/ is a regex.

• Scroll-bar ticks: There's a small marker for each match.

• Saved term lists: Up to 10 named lists you can reload.

• Accent search: "cafe" now finds "café" and "strasse" finds "straße".

• Simpler popup: The export and citation controls are in a collapsed "Advanced" section.

• Format presets: Matches, Citation, Legal, Research and Resume.

Citations

checked against official documents

• APA 7.

• Vancouver (NLM).

• IEEE.

checked against public documents only (not the official manual)

• MLA 9: secondary sources.

• Chicago: public university guides and a real article.

• Harvard (Cite Them Right style): public university guides, mainly the Newcastle sheet.

• AMA: a public guide and a real JAMA article.

neither

• Plain style has nothing to check it against.

Legal:

checked against official documents

• OSCOLA (UK): the official guide.

• AGLC4 (Australia): rules taken from a library copy of AGLC4. The output hasn't been checked on a real Australian page.

checked against public documents only (not the official manual)

• US Bluebook, partly: the case-name word table matches Cornell LII's public guide. The official Bluebook is paywalled.

checked against real court pages (no guide, just actual judgments)

• France, India, Portugal.

• UK, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Colombia, Korea, Japan, Russia.

• Canada (McGill style), Italy (with a date).

built, but no real page checked

• EU (CJEU / ECHR).

• Australia (AGLC).

• Mexico (SCJN).

• Brazil (STF / STJ).

• Argentina (CSJN).

• Arabic courts.

• China (最高人民法院). Only guiding cases were checked, not ordinary judgments.

not built (these fall back to a generic web-page citation)

• Ireland, the Netherlands and Chile.

• South Africa, New Zealand, Singapore, Israel, Turkey, Poland, the Nordic countries,

• Greece and Peru.

• Any other country outside the 22 dropdown options.

Has anyone else experienced this? I have disabled Show tab memory usage, but in tabs that use lots of memory, High memory usage is still shown no matter what.

Every time MS sends out a new MS Edge update, they reset my search engine back to bing. I know it is easy to go and change it back, but it is really annoying. Bing sucks and I don't want to use it. Is there a way, other than switching browsers, to keep it on my preferred search choice.

I have tried setting policies through the registry and those get ignored because my computer is not in a domain or managed.

How do we block Google Sponsored links on Edge browser? My uBO is fully checked and updated. Thank you

Reset my windows so I thought I'd just use the Edge browser for a bit.

First, I needed to check whether some tender notices we had put up for publication were actually published. Searched online and our latest tender notices don't show up even on 5 results pages. Went to the portal of the agency advertising and they show them as published. For us, this is quite an issue if tender aren't being advertised.

Only then I realized that I was using bing because it was the default search engine. Wow, rip bing. But that's ok. Switched to Google, found my tenders. Ready to print.

Switched to that multi tasking view and found many pdfs windows open. Wait I thought I had them open in my browser, I never downloaded them. Anyways I close them because I have no use for them, and now I am thinking of the clutter in my download folder.

Go back to my browser to realize that the pdfs I closed were actually last 3 opened tabs on my browser.

So now I got to start over.

Who created this dung of a browser. I know I can change the settings for each of the issues above but I have only used this browser for a couple of hours at most and this is how it went. I am not insane enough to wait around to find out how else they are going to screw me.