Is searching for bookmarks broken in Edge?

Question

I have quite a few bookmarks in Edge that I regularly use for work. Until very recently I've been able to search through them successfully by using 'search favourites' via the favourites button.

However today I've noticed that the search results have completely changed. e.g. if I search for 'a thing' then it brings up a whole load of results that don't have 'a thing' anywhere in the bookmark name, but do have it in the URL.

Bookmarks which actually have 'a thing' in the name I've given them get presented at the bottom of the list (even when they ALSO have it in the URL), which makes no sense - surely the name I've given a bookmark should be much more important to the search feature rather than the URL? In the past I don't think it searched the URL at all.

The same thing happens if I go to edge://favorites and use the search feature there.

I can still find what I'm looking for by typing what I'm looking for in the address bar, but this is less reliable than the actual bookmark search used to be, and doesn't always find all the bookmarks I'm looking for.

Is there any way to change this setting or if any one from Microsoft is reading could you at least put the search results where there are matches in the bookmark name at the top rather than the bottom of the search results?

For information I'm on Version 139.0.3405.102 (Official build) (64-bit), which seems to be the most up to date version.

Answer 1

Hello, good day and thanks for your question. Sorry to know about this. As of the time being, there is no related or specific setting that can change this specific action or behavior in the search results for bookmarks. Alternatively, kindly check and test if this is also happening in Edge Beta, Canary or Dev builds that you can download and install separately from the link below.

https://microsoft.com/en-us/edge/download/insider?cc=1&cs=1873324239&form=MA13FJ

Answer 2

In this case, you can ask the IT support of the company if they can install this for you or if the Edge that you are using can be downgraded to a previous version if it is working on a specific version. It is also highly encourage to also send a feedback to the team that is working on Edge and hopefully a fix will be applied soon on the next update and you can provide a feedback from the browser itself by clicking on the 3 dots > Help and feedback > Send feedback.