Keep Cookies for Specific Sites When Close Microsoft Edge

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How to Keep Cookies for Specific Sites When Close Microsoft Edge.

Starting in Microsoft Edge version 83.0.470.0, you can make the browser keep cookies for specific web sites from being deleted when you close Edge. A new option is available in Privacy options of the Edge browser, allowing you to define exceptions.As you may remember, Microsoft Edge Chromium allows removing individual browsing history elements every time you close Microsoft Edge. Today's Canary update makes this feature more flexible.

To Keep Cookies for Specific Sites When Close Microsoft Edge,

  1. Update your Microsoft Edge to the latest version (see below).
  2. Run Microsoft Edge Chromium.
  3. Go to in Settings > Privacy and Services (or type edge://settings/clearBrowserDataOnExit
     in the address bar).
  4. On the right, click on the link Choose what to clear every time you close the browser.
  5. When the option Cookies and other site data is enabled, click on the Add button under the Do not clear section.
  6. In the next dialog, specify a web site URL to keep cookies for.

You are done.

Later, you can edit or remove the added site exclusion using the three dot button menu.

It allows removing or changing URL for the web site.

Actual Edge versions

The actual versions of Edge Chromium at the moment of this writing are as follows:

Microsoft Edge is now a Chromium-based browser with a number of exclusive features like Read Aloud and services tied to Microsoft instead of Google.

The stable version of Microsoft Edge Chromium is available to the public for a while. The browser has already received a few updates, with support for ARM64 devices in Edge Stable 80. Also, Microsoft Edge is still supporting a number of aging Windows versions, including Windows 7, which has recently reached its end of support. Check out Windows Versions Supported by Microsoft Edge Chromium and Edge Chromium latest roadmap. Finally, interested users can download MSI installers for deployment and customization.

For pre-release versions, Microsoft is currently using three channels to deliver updates to Edge Insiders. The Canary channel receives updates daily (except Saturday and Sunday), the Dev channel is getting updates weekly, and the Beta channel is updated every 6 weeks. Microsoft is going to support Edge Chromium on Windows 7, 8.1 and 10, alongside macOS, Linux (coming in the future) and mobile apps on iOS and Android.

You will find many Edge tricks and features covered in the following post:

Hands-on with the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge

Also, see the following updates.

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Author: Sergey Tkachenko

Sergey Tkachenko is a software developer who started Winaero back in 2011. On this blog, Sergey is writing about everything connected to Microsoft, Windows and popular software. Follow him on Telegram, Twitter, and YouTube.

2 thoughts on “Keep Cookies for Specific Sites When Close Microsoft Edge”

  1. There is no option “Do not clear” in MS Edge 113 (my last update). You can either deletee or keep all cookies on exit.

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  2. What I want is to be able to select the ones to keep from the list of stored cookies. Having to enter each URL for each cookie is too labor intensive and I am sure to miss many.

    Reply

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