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

Anonymous
2022-01-27T17:33:41+00:00

Hello,

I have a site where I have two accounts. I used to be able to have one of them logged in with Edge and one with Chrome, then by running the right browser, I could be logged in with the right profile.

Now, Edge seems to have started copying the login across from Chrome, i.e. I can't separate them. Logging in on Chrome logs in with the same credentials on Edge which isn't what I want.

How do I turn this off so that each browser can log in with different credentials and stay logged in with those credentials? I've found lots of stuff about syncing my MS account across devices, but this is on one single device and two browsers that I want to be completely unrelated.

Thanks.

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-11-01T01:55:48+00:00

    This is a very simple problem to replicate. I have a very simple website that sets Session variables (i.e. User Full Name, User Birth date, etc.) when a user logs in, Before I could log into the same web app being two different users at the same time. To do this, you had to use a different browser (i.e. Edge and Chrome). However, since Edge Chromium (i believe) the defaults are to share Session state between browsers, and that results in the problem describe earlier (if I log in as Jack in the Chrome Browser, and then log in as Jill in the Edge browser, when I return to Chrome I now am Jill in Chrome as well).

    What appears to have solved it for me was turning off "Import browser data on each launch" in the edge://settings/profiles section.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-08-25T15:00:41+00:00

    hi

    I am facing the same issue.

    You can go to edge---setting---import browser data--turn off.

    Let me know if this worked for you

    (you'll have to reinstall edge again though!)

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-06-15T13:19:36+00:00

    "What you're describing is quite bizarre, and it sounds impossible. There is no way that the two browsers are sharing information; while they have a lot of common functionality through their Chromium connection, both the program files and the user data are kept quite separate."

    I have the same issue. I'm logged into different Twitter accounts on each browser: Firefox for personal ones, Chrome for a few business ones and Edge for other business ones. As of two weeks or so, Edge copies the exact settings from Chrome after each sessions.

    Specifically: I restart the computer, open edge, and it will be logged into the 3 accounts I'm logged into on Chrome. Before I shut down the PC, I was logged into two different accounts on Edge. Now I have to log out of those and log into the other accounts each time and it's rather annoying. I'd prefer to have the two browsers share no info between them at all...

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