Microsoft's Edge browser is officially coming to Linux soon

[Karlston]

Microsoft's Edge browser is officially coming to Linux soon

 

Back in May at Microsoft's Build 2019 developer conference, the company teased that its new Chromium-based Edge browser might be coming to Linux. At the time, public testing of the new browser was in its infancy, so there were a lot of uncertainties. In fact, back then, we didn't even have a Beta channel, and there weren't any builds for macOS yet, or older versions of Windows.

 

Microsoft has teased Edge coming to Linux a couple of times since then, and today, it's finally official. During its State of the Browser session at its Ignite 2019 conference in Orlando, the Redmond firm finally said that there's a version of Edge coming to Linux.

 

As for the timeline, it's the most familiar for those that follow Microsoft: it's coming soon. The Edge team rarely provides actual details for when the browser will hit a major milestone, so it was a bit surprising that it actually announced a general availability date today. Edge Chromium will be available for Windows and macOS beginning on January 15.

 

While it's possible that the Linux variant could be in the Canary and Dev channels by then, it won't be generally available, just like the ARM64 flavor for Windows 10.

 

 

Source: Microsoft's Edge browser is officially coming to Linux soon  (Neowin)

[steven36]

Another closed source browser without hardware acceleration in Linux ?  Waterfox Classic  with multi process turned off work best for me as far as Firefox . Chromium VAAPI-enabled snap  with hardware acceleration  works fine on my Intel box   Benchmarks show Chromium based browsers without hardware acceleration still beat out Firefox current by a mile with buggy WebRender off and Chromium still beat it by a little with it on and that's raw processing power. So Edge be faster but the same as Brave . Watching streams with SMPlayer ,  MPV  , VLC  and Kodi is the boss on Linux most people utilize apps more on Linux  than browsers to watch videos like they do on smart phones . 

 

That guy dont know they have open source Brave on Linux and to  lazy to put his password in the keyring and must be using XFCE if he his video tears i dont have that problem in none of my browsers i would distro hop if i did ,

 

 

If Microsoft do like the  rest it want have no real appeal to many  Linux users  except for the ones who use Google Chrome but trust Microsoft more.  But  im afraid its just going be the Pita on Linux  and no different  than others except for the Chromium VAAPI-enabled  patched builds witch are generic Chromium with a patch.. It could be the end of next year before it comes to Linux and we know more who knows? Brave is open source  and people been trying to get  them to VAAPI-enabled it for  a long time and they  still wont do it because of caveats on some hardware .