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
    2022-09-05T05:16:14+00:00

    If you haven't found the solution, here it is:

    edge://settings/profiles/importBrowsingData/importOnLaunch

    Just turn off the feature.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-08-23T04:05:10+00:00

    Yes, but I'm finding the issue persists regardless. I'm constantly being signed out of my personal gmail account in Edge and being signed into my work account instead. I just can't fathom why this is even on by default. At this point it feels like it would be easier just to go back to Chrome.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-08-06T08:45:25+00:00

    This is exactly same things happenign to me. Its pulling everything including loged in session from Chrome. I think it is illegal. Microsoft is misusing windows OS to share Chrome data to Microsoft Edge. Its wasn't like this before. Everytime I log in something on Chrome, and open same site to open chrome with different user, its already logged in. How do I stop it.

    Also default programs are reverted automatically. This is very annoying.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-03-24T17:58:35+00:00

    Same here.. tried all the suggestions listed here and nothing.

    Ultimately, ended up hitting the "reset to default" in settings and the issue went away.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-03-19T09:28:38+00:00

    It’s not an at-startup syncing that’s causing it, at least for me. If I sign out and sign in to a different account in Chrome, as soon as I hit refresh in edge it shows the same, new account signed in.

    If the problem occurs again, I’ll try that. I’m curious and I’ve just reinstalled Chrome but it’s OK so far…

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