Edge is sharing Chrome site logins. How do I prevent this?

This didn't work for me! And it's SO frustrating!

I have a new computer - windows 11 - and the linking of accounts between Edge and Chrome is driving me crazy!

i think i may have found the problem and solution

edge://settings/profiles/importBrowsingData/importOnLaunch

enter that in the edge address bar and turn it off

I personally think somebody somewhere dropped the ball here and made a mistake.

I tend to agree with you, if this is in fact happening by stealth as I understand.

I hope the edge team read this or are passed these messages.

It's possible, but this isn't the best way to make your views known. The official route for 'this is something I don't like' feedback is through the Microsoft Feedback Portal: Microsoft Edge · Community, although it's struggling to get off the ground. You have the ability to share your feedback item so other users can see it, upvote it and comment on it. However, it won't take off unless people actually use it.

Another good channel is Reddit. Edge community engagement staff monitor the two Edge subreddits and are usually pretty responsive: Microsoft Edge (reddit.com).

Otherwise, use the Send feedback option within the browser (Alt-Shift-i) to alert the Edge team to your feelings. This is all read and may be acted upon if enough users make the same complaint.

I have AOL mail (I know I know) because I have used it for so many years it just suits me.

I usually have two accounts at startup If I start edge it logs into business version of AOL mail automatically and on google chrome if I click the book mark (I have google as my homepage on that) it logs straight into the personal version. As I choose stay logged in on the AOL UI.

Yesterday I opened edge and it logged me into personal AOL? Uh? I logged out logged back in and saw to my business stuff. then went over to chrome and logged in and it was on the business account!!! Somehow Edge has pirated the data (or synced) from chrome? This means I now have to manually log into edge AOL and Chrome Aol every time. Now this for a start is time consuming. As to log out then log in the only reason I used edge at all was for this convenience. If I have to manually log into both each time I would just use Chrome and never use edge.

My solution is (until it is fixed) to use Opera for Business AOL (which works and does not do this) so it is clearly an edge problem) which is so counter productive. I though Microsoft wanted people to use edge? This is the exact opposite! I am on Windows 11 and all updated btw. And Microsoft has forced me to use a thirdparty browser?!!!

This issue was bothering me allot as well. Here's what I did to fix the issue in Edge Browser:

Edge Browser:

1. Goto Settings -> Profiles

edge://settings/profiles

Click Import browser data -> Choose what to import

Unchecked all the options and checked only personal info

2. Stay on profiles: edge://settings/profiles

Click Import browser data on each launch -> Click Turn Off

3. Clear cookies and browsing history

Goto Settings -> Privacy -> Clear Browsing Data

edge://settings/privacy

Click choose what to clear -> Select All Time -> Select All Options -> Click Clear Now

4. Restart your Edge Browser

Thanks. It’s hard for me to try this currently as I uninstalled Chrome too for other reasons, but I plan to reinstall it so I will try it then it the problem reoccurs.

@¡Firedog, another explanation occurred to me when I read that. Edge doesn’t need to share the sessions for this to happen. If it does the transfer when it starts ever single time it starts, you’d get something similar. I’m now questioning whether logging in in Edge affected Chrome or if it was just one way. Unfortunately I’m not currently in a position to try it.