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Edge Search Engines

Search Engines and Address Bar

Use to retrieve PATH where profile specific settings are stored in %localappdata% for Microsoft Edge:

  • Edge (stable): %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default
  • Edge Dev: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Edge Dev\User Data\Default
  • Edge Beta: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Edge Beta\User Data\Default
  • Edge Canary: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Edge SxS\User Data\Default

The searchEngines and their keywords are stored in the file: Web Data within the aforementioned folder(s); however, this file is not a text file, rather a version of a .sqlite database.

Therefore, to extract and view this data, utilize the DB Browser for SQLite Utility to extract the tables from the database.

  • Can be installed with chocolatey via: cinst sqlitebrowser.install.

I exported keywords.csv from that, which houses information on my custom searchEngines .

Useful Post (although about Chrome): https://superuser.com/questions/272511/where-do-chrome-chromium-store-search-keywords

Backlinks:

list from [[Edge Search Engines]] AND -"Changelog"