Avoiding the Loss of Your Web Shortcuts by Using a Browser ID that Syncs
Safeguarding your Favorites / Bookmarks / Shortcuts with a browser sign-in account
All of the major browser software packages periodically update themselves. Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are the most widely used browsers for Windows 10 users.
One unfortunate pattern with these software updates is that sometimes they result in losing your shortcuts to "favorite" or "bookmarked" websites.
A good safeguard to avoid loss of your most-visited web links is to set up an account with the organization that publishes your preferred browser software.
Microsoft, Google and Mozilla all are set up for you to create an ID which will give you the ability to save favorites, preferences, histories, passwords and more, and to access these through the respective browser using any device that you synchronize.
Setting up an account with any one of these will use your email address of choice as a user ID, and will require creating a password.
Even while creating another account and password means one more pair to keep track of, all three systems are set up with flexible password reset features in case you run into password problems.
Creating an account to save and syncronize your info across devices is a convenient and sensible way to safeguard your shortcuts against inevitable updates that roll everything back to defaults.
Doing this also makes it so that if you're using a mobile device as well as a conventional computer, you can access your shortcuts and sign-ins the same on either device (even after a "snafu" such as a badly configured history clean-up, or an OS repair or reset).
If you already have a Microsoft ID, or an Outlook, Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo email address, you may already be half-way toward taking advantage of syncronization, whether you're using a personal computer, table, smart phone or other internet-capable device.
Each organization and browser has a slightly different path for taking advantage of such features, but all can be set up fairly quickly.
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