Chrome/Edge preference file "exit type none" no longer saving settings

[james.keefe]

Hi all,

So in our environments we have various settings in chrome and edge that we want leaving on/off ( autofill, remember password, startup boost off, and so on) . In the past we'd go into the preference file, untick read only, make changes in browser, change exit type to "none" in pref file, save, tick read only. however now when machine is restarted or browser has been updated these settings no longer work. I've asked copilot but her answer involves group policy changes. Anyone found and alternative solution? thanks

[david.l.morris · Accepted solution]

We have an automation we call Set Up MS Edge that uses AA/UIA to automate the settings pages of MS Edge. The actions are generic such that they can change any toggle/flag element in the page to True or False. And then we have an input file where we have different sheets containing the names of various settings, whether to set them to True or False, and the URL where that setting is found.

I didn't go the route of trying to set any config/pref file or anything mainly because I couldn't find it. I am curious to know where your file is on your machines because I'd like to try that as well. Maybe I found it in the past and some setting wasn't available; I can't remember.

Anyway, so with our automation that sets up edge, periodically settings just get reverted for whatever reason. Could be group policy or Edge updates etc. Probably the right way is for us to enforce everything by group policy, but with Edge in particular we've had no success in getting the ability to do that. In the end, doing Set Up MS Edge as a utility automation and running it daily on machines for whatever users log into those machines has worked out well enough for us.

[james.keefe]

Thank you Dave, the above is a lot of help. An automation doing that seems a heck of a lot easier. as a fyi here's the file path we have for the preference file

C:\Users\*insert name of user*\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default