Google Chrome needs to copy this Microsoft Edge feature we guarantee you’ll use every day

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If you find yourself moving between devices when working and need to keep track of the links you’ve copied, Microsoft Edge has a new feature that should solve a lot of headaches for you. Dubbed Shared Links, this new feature expands on the existing browser history menu – but lets you search through just the URLs that you’ve copied throughout the day.

Microsoft lets you search through the URLs for keywords or the website name to make tracking down the right link easier. So, rather than forcing you to click through your tabs to find the correct URL, or scroll down a list of indecipherable website links, Microsoft Edge will now present everything is a clean, easy-to-read, and searchable list. Simples.

Better yet, Shared Links are synchronised between devices, so if you’ve moved from a desktop to a laptop or a two-in-one tablet hybrid, you’ll still be able to quickly search for a link that you copied on a separate device a few hours ago to send in Microsoft Teams, Slack, Gmail, or another app. A similar feature is already available on Windows 10, dubbed Windows Cloud Clipboard, which lets you bring links and text copied on one Windows 10 device to another. But by building the feature into Edge itself, Microsoft ensures that you’ll be able to take copied URLs between platforms too, Windows Latest has revealed.

“We send and receive a large number of links throughout our work weeks. However, when we actually need to use them, we may not remember what the link was called, where we last saw it, or whether we opened it at all,” Microsoft announced the feature in a company blog post. “The current processes that users have to re-find their links can be difficult and time-consuming. Users spend time and energy trying to find links that have been shared with them and sometimes shared by themselves, looking in various apps, checking their email and chat messages, and sometimes by asking someone else to find or re-send the link to them.”

According to Microsoft, it hopes Shared Links will “help users save time and effort by making links shared with/by user searchable in the history page of Edge Browser”.

Although Shared Links is still in beta-testing, Microsoft is allowing users to trial the feature as an extension to their web browser right now. Since the feature isn’t finished, you might encounter a few issues, however, reporting these should ensure a polished version of Shared Links reaches every Microsoft Edge user worldwide a little quicker.

Published at Thu, 11 Mar 2021 08:16:00 +0000

Google Chrome needs to copy this Microsoft Edge feature we guarantee you’ll use every day

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