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

Turn this off: edge://settings/profiles/importBrowsingData

I was having the same issue. I was logged into a site on Chrome and opened Microsoft Edge to view that site, purposely not logged in, however, Microsoft Edge automatically logged me into the site even though my password was not saved in Microsoft Edge.

This is the setting you need to turn off:

edge://settings/profiles/importBrowsingData/importOnLaunch (Import browser data from Google Chrome on each launch)

This is apparently a default setting for Microsoft Edge - that you have to "know about" and have to find and "turn off". Microsoft does not make this setting known - it is just turned on by default. They need to set it where you must opt in. Hopefully they will change that.

I have also turned off the password settings in Microsoft Edge as well to be sure I don't run into this issue again. This setting can be found here: edge://settings/passwords.

I hope that helps. It resolved it with me.

Yep, looks like it's a new setting in Edge. 'Imprt Frome chrome on Startup'.

Possibly useful for some people but what a ridiculous approach to automatically enable it on update.

Like many people I use different browsers for work/personal. This could really mess up some people getting signed in to everything as completely the wrong account.

Bad bad Microsoft. Please fix it and apologise.

go to >Edge Browser Settings> Profiles/ Import browser data

Turn off all

Import from other browsers

Import browser data now

Import browser data on each launch

This worked for me.

Hi AJP_850,

Thanks for your post in Microsoft Community.

I'm Mosken, I do apologize for the inconvenience that you're experiencing right now, let me help you sort things out.

In order to quickly and accurately determine the crux of the problem, I would like to confirm some details: you want to use Edge and Chrome to log in to two different accounts on the same website, but now they will sync your login information, causing your inconvenience.

If my understanding is wrong, please correct me in the reply.

Then I suggest that you can try to find the crux of the problem by doing the following:

1. Please update Edge to the latest (enter "edge://settings/help" in the address bar, then select Update Edge to the latest);
2. Clear Edge's browser cache (Note!!! This will clear your browser's browsing history, saved passwords and other personal information, so please operate with caution!!! First sync the current status to your account, then log out , enter "edge://settings/clearBrowserData" in the address bar, select only "cookies and other site data", "Passwords", and then click "Clear Now" and restart the browser.

You can perform the above two operations on Chrome (but due to product differences, please operate with caution), and then it is recommended that you restart the computer to achieve the purpose of thorough cleaning.

After restarting, you can try to log in to different accounts in the two browsers, if the previous problem still occurs, please check the system version ( (you can display it by pressing the win key + R key, and entering "winver", then press Enter) , and only send the relevant information to me in the next reply, so as to solve the problem faster and better.

I hope the above will be helpful to you. Please feel free to let me know how it goes, and I will do my best to help you.

Best Regards,

Mosken - MSFT | Microsoft Community Support Specialist

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