How to enable profile selection window in Edge?

Question

Hello,

I had an question about profiles. I'm tired with switching profiles each time I run Edge, so I want to make one-for-all shortcut that prompts for a profile.

[Source: My concept for a profile selector screen]

Each time I run Edge, it will autorun into any profile. And I am always using the wrong profile each time I run the browser ...

Is there is a profile selector window for each time I launch Edge? Or if not, could you or anyone help me implement the concept in Edge?

Answer 1

Hi Phú Nguyễn Quang,

Welcome to Microsoft Community.

I'm Hahn and I'm here to help you with your concern.

Unfortunately, Edge doesn't have a built-in option to select a profile when launching the browser.

However, you can create multiple Windows shortcuts for Edge, each one targeting a different profile. Then just use the appropriate shortcut when you want that profile.

1. Open a different user configuration account for Edge. Right-click on it in the taskbar and select Properties.

2. Copy the contents of Target.

3. Create a shortcut to the desktop.

4. Paste the previously copied content.

5. Get a different profile of Edge browser!

I hope this helps.  If there is anything not clear, please do not hesitate to let me know.

Your Sincerely

Hahn - MSFT | Microsoft Community Support Specialist

Answer 2

Hello Hahn - MSFT,

Similar question, could you please the steps to follow to create the profile shortcuts in Macbook?

Also is the profile picker at startup a roadmap item? Any ETA on the requested feature?

Regards,

Sagar

Answer 3

"Unfortunately, Edge doesn't have a built-in option to select a profile when launching the browser."

Google monopolizes the mobile peoples, while Microsoft is rolling Windows back to the same way ChromeOS is relying on, a PWA! And they no longer remember where to get that option, cause Nadella is probably too much addicted and reliant to AI. Blyat.

Because of this Nadella do no longer give a sh*t about the thing I suggested. What about making another choice?

I am not about to place WAY TOO MANY shortcuts into the desktop: those is too advanced for a causal one to remember. It's related to a concern about one-shortcut-for-all-profiles thingy.

Once you got the 3rd Microsoft account, 3rd profile or even the fourth for Contoso Account or Microsoft Azure Admirals', the autorunning Edge should hell nags you to answer one thing: which profile? And, who browsing???

Google had a good implementation for that, but in Edge, it sucks for Microsoft for not getting this one okey during an money race. Will autorun into someone's else profile daily, and once he forgot the tip Hahn got for,

*if you borrow someone else's PC you could tweet and you can place an Amazon order for free while you're authorized to borrow a Dell, spending money from that person's accounts, and it will return you a 2nd Dell. He'll lose money as he forgot to do what do Hahn nagged with. Or he could get addicted too much to a personal profile as he forgo the business profiles and rely too much to the personal profile and even mix up the work and the personal into one, in both browsing history and else and he get overloaded - and he does khs literally as he get too much stress there.* Plus as MS track you, so the Microsoft Account's Privacy sector will be no longer controllable anymore. And you get dozens of the ads targeted at you: since you got 19.999.999.999 browsing and search activities.

If Microsoft don't add the startup profile picker it will be a huge privacy concern.

Try using Coc Coc as an alternative to Edge, and pin it to the elsewhere you can distinguish, since it's a Vietnamese type.

Someone using a MacBook like Sagar Karangle would feel like, if the profile picker is a "no implementing" thingy, MS would f*s those who nags for it - and hence Sagar gets offended.