![]() Because I've been a Firefox user for well over a decade, the adjustment was minor. The UI is reasonably traditional, more like Firefox than, say, Vivaldi. ![]() Microsoft has been adding features/functions (Collections, left-side Vertical Tabs, and so on) unavailable in Chrome, and Microsoft seems to be making a serious effort to make Edge a better browser than Chrome. Basic functionality, such as the ability to sign into a Microsoft account or sync between devices are not yet available in Edge-Linux, but otherwise it is hard to tell the difference between Edge-Windows and Edge-Linux.Įdge is very fast and resource light in comparison to Chrome, and (for me a core threshold) completely un-Googled. That's not yet the case with Edge-Linux, though. The Chromium-based version of Edge is now the default browser in Windows 7-8-10 (the older version of Edge has been (or shortly will be, as Windows users update) removed, as has Internet Explorer), so everyone and their dog using Windows is using the Chromium-based version of Edge.Īt this point, after two years of development and testing, Edge is stable and mature in the Windows environment. (3) Install Microsoft Edge via the terminal, using this command: (2) Install the Flathub BETA repository via the terminal, using these commands:įlatpak install flathub-beta (1) Check to see that Flatpak is installed (it should be, unless you removed it). If any of you want to test Microsoft Edge using the unofficial Flatpak beta: It appears to be working fine, indistinguishable from the identical Edge Dev build installed on a Ubuntu 20.10 computer I built for the specific purpose of testing Edge-Linux. I installed the Flatpak beta and the current Dev build of Microsoft Edge (microsoft-edge-dev_91.0.825.0-1_b) on one of my Solus computers this morning. I am not affiliated with or contributing to the project. ![]() ![]() The project wraps the official deb version of Edge-Linux Dev using Extra-Data, a common method of making proprietary packages available on Flatpak without distributing or redistributing the underlying application (e.g. The project is described in this Github repository. Microsoft Edge Dev is now available for testing in an unofficial Flatpak beta.
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