Now it seems that, at least for the latest Microsoft Edge update, the list of fixes provided in the stable version update in the past two days shows that Microsoft seems to have made bug fixes for browser data synchronization issues. Is Continue Reading really not a new feature? Microsoft has corrected the text of a report on Edge’s synchronization feature that allegedly steals data from other browsers.
Is it really not a new feature? Microsoft brings fix to Edge sync feature suspected of stealing data from other browsers
Although seriously speaking, the possibility of “interoperability” between browsers with the same computer account seems to be relatively low in terms of causing any major privacy issues. But previously foreign media encountered Microsoft Edge is suspected of stealing Chrome’s strange behavior of opening tabs and automatically opening them, but it also makes people think that Microsoft is “not playing anymore” and wants to use this method to further seize the browser market share.
Now it seems that, at least for the latest Microsoft Edge update, the list of fixes provided in the stable version update in the past two days shows that Microsoft seems to have made bug fixes for browser data synchronization issues.
Version 121.0.2277.128: February 15, 2024
Fixed various bugs and performance issues.
Fixes
- Edge has a feature that provides an option to import browser data on each launch from other browsers with user consent. This feature’s state might not have been syncing and displaying correctly across multiple devices. This is fixed.
Policy updates
- EdgeManagementPolicyOverridesPlatformPolicy – For Microsoft Edge version 121.0.2277 and later, this policy will control all device policies.
- EdgeManagementUserPolicyOverridesCloudMachinePolicy – For Microsoft Edge version 121.0.2277 and later, this policy will control all per user profile policies.
Even though many people know that the core behind Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge are basically the same, and most browsers basically have the function of importing bookmarks and other related data from system browsers including Windows and macOS, and even third-party browsers including Firefox and other applications.
However, Microsoft has evolved into an Edge browser that is developed using Chromium technology and has the freedom and flexibility to support many Chrome extension stores. Unexpectedly, it was previously discovered by foreign media that it seems to secretly and automatically import the “open web page tabs” items stored in other browsers (in this case Chrome) without the user’s permission.
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This kind of counterfeiting or trying to directly replace other browsers through means has naturally aroused heated discussions on privacy and security.
Although Microsoft did not make it clear in this update, they basically mentioned the related display and synchronization function errors in the description of this correction. What was more clearly mentioned as a problem was the function that would have required users to agree to import data from other browsers. This also allows foreign media to directly judge that this is Microsoft’s corresponding update in response to the incident of suspected data theft by Edge that caused an uproar.
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It has to be said that Microsoft, which once occupied a leading position in the browser market, has always been very “active” in attracting users of other browsers to use its own browser. But in addition to positive examples such as the development of the Bing Chat generative AI chatbot, there are actually many quiteControversial technological interference methods emerge. But now it seems that the situation of directly reading data from other browsers, which is considered to be “no longer available”, is probably just a bug rather than a strategy to seize the market (it should be).
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Source: KOCPC Chinese