If you have existing favourites, history or saved-passwords in Edge you need to keep: If not: was worth a try! Close Edge and then delete any that didn't work and it'll recreate those files the next time you use it.(5) Copy the relevant files above from the 'Default' folder from your Google Chrome settings into the 'Default' folder of your Edge settings 'Login Data' and 'Login Data-journal' = saved passwords.'History' and 'History-journal' = sites you've recently visited.'Favicons' and 'Favicons-journal' = these are the icons for your favourites.'Bookmarks' and 'Bookmarks.bak' = these are your favourites.(4) In the 'Default' folder for Google Chrome, look for the following files:

(3) Also browse into the folder where Edge saves its files (I'd guess something like '.config/microsoft-edge-beta/default' or '.config/microsoft-edge-dev/default' on Linux, inside your personal-folder) (2) Browse into the folder where Chrome saves its files (I think it is something like '.config/google-chrome/default' on Linux, inside your personal folder) (1) Make sure you have both Chrome and Edge fully-closed on your device If you don't have any existing favourites, history or saved-passwords inside Edge that you need to keep, then try this:

Edge is Chromium, like Google Chrome, I'd imagine the file-formats are the same for both of them.

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