Unable to achieve no-merge behaviour in Pure Edge (Without IE Compatibility)

Question

Hi All,

We are migrating from Edge (with IE compatibility) to Pure/Native Edge. Earlier, we achieved the no-merge behaviour by using the below code in "edge://compat/sitelistmanager"

<site-list version="x">
 <site url="http://serverName/index.aspx">
 <compat-mode>IE11</compat-mode>
 <open-in merge-type="no-merge">IE11</open-in>
 </site>
 </site-list>

After removing these XML changes, we are experiencing the session sharing issue as expected. We have tried SitePerProcess but no luck.

Is there any other way to achieve this no-merge behaviour in Pure Edge (Without IE compatibility)?

Answer 1

Hi @Vivek Ramesh

From the official doc, we can know that

The recommended alternatives for the no-merge functionality in Microsoft Edge are one of the following actions:

1. Use Profiles in Microsoft Edge - Each profile maps to a different IE session for IE mode pages, so it behaves identically to the no-merge option.
2. Use the --user-data-dir=<path> command line, but with a different path for each session. If needed, you can create a utility for the user to run that launches Microsoft Edge and changes the path for the session.

So I suggest that you can use different profiles in Edge to achieve no-merge behavior. As far as I know, there's no other way. You can also check this thread which has the same issue as yours, the Microsoft official account also only mentions the above two alternatives.

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