Until recently, I was able to create duplicate favorites in Edge. Today, I discovered that one duplicated favorite had disappeared on its own from one of its two locations. I was able to recreate it there, but that caused it to be deleted from the other location.
I use dupes for a reason. For example, I have one folder on the Favorites bar which concerns a particular subject and contains 5 related favorites. Another, separate folder on that bar contains 7 favorites related to a different subject. One of the seven is a duplicate of a favorite in the first folder. (A surprise to Microsoft, I guess, that a single favorite could possible be relevant to two different subjects.) When I go to one of those folders, I frequently often open all of the related favorites at once. I now can’t do that for the folder from which the dupe was deleted. Instead, I have to launch everything in that folder, and then find the former dupe in the other folder and launch it from there This is a pain. I’d rather not have Edge “protecting” me from myself this way.
The settings for Edge include a section where the user can intentionally delete all dupes. Maybe I’m simple-minded, but this implies to me that dupes are possible; otherwise, there would be no need for such a manual operation.
However, I Googled the issue, and at least one website said that Edge deletes dupes by design, whether you want it to or not (thanks Microsoft!). It suggests adding an “HTML fragment” to the URL and then saving it as a dupe that way. (That is, if the original URL is https://doodah.com, add something such as #dup, so it now reads https://doodah.com/#dup.) I tried that, but it didn’t work, even if I gave the dupe a different name.
I have Win 10 Pro 21H2, updated through last month. The Edge version is 01.0.1210.47.
Is there a solution?
Thanks large.
