Microsoft Edge Updates

[Sushubh]

https://twitter.com/search?q=microsoft%20edge&src=typed_query&f=live

edge is unusable right now if you have google set as default search engine

 

[Navjot Singh]

Microsoft will bid farewell to Internet Explorer and legacy Edge in 2021

Microsoft 365 will stop support for Internet Explorer.

www.theverge.com

Microsoft is planning to drop support for its existing legacy version of Microsoft Edge on March 9th, 2021. After the end of support date, the legacy version of Edge will no longer receive security updates.

 

[Sushubh]

i guess this is more of a good news for developers. ie11 is already quite old and supporting it has become a problem for a lot of web apps. xenforo developers recently basically refused to fix a bug reported by a member saying that it is not relevant enough to spend energy on for instance lol.

 

[Navjot Singh]

Source


Finally

 

[Sushubh]

Announcing Microsoft Edge WebView2 General Availability

Today, we are excited to announce that Microsoft Edge WebView2 for Win32 C/C++ is gen

blogs.windows.com

 

[Navjot Singh]

Introducing Microsoft Edge preview builds for Linux

We are pleased to announce the availability of the Microsoft Edge Dev Channel for Linux! With this release, Microsoft Edge is now available for all major desktop and mobile platforms. We’re parti

blogs.windows.com

 

[Navjot Singh]

Why can't they release a browser after they have added profile sync. They could have waited a couple of months and nobody would have said anything. lol

Anyway, works exactly like its Windows counterpart. Looks more or less finished. For some reason, it doesn't show any version number. lol

 

[Sushubh]

So update using apt?

 

[Navjot Singh]

Yep. or just use the deb/rpm installer and you will still get automatic updates.

 

[Sushubh]

Installing Firefox on pi has been quite annoying because of this. Every apt update brings a new Firefox update resulting in a cumbersome update process lol.