In case you missed it, recently, Microsoft announced the new Edge Dev channel for Android and the updated preview program for iOS. There you can also find similar links for Windows and macOS. You can download *.rpm and *.deb packages of Microsoft Edge Beta for Linux from the official Edge Insider website. Microsoft does not comment on when these channels will be available on Linux. It is important to note that there is still no support of Edge Canary and Edge Stable. These include Microsoft Account sign-in and sync support, previously missing on Linux. Currently, the Beta channel offers Edge 91, due to release for the public at the end of May 2021.Įdge 91 Beta for Linux includes all the improvements and new features from the Dev channel.
Those using Beta versions of Microsoft Edge get major updates every six weeks, similarly to the stable release. Article taken from to Microsoft, the Beta channel is a safe branch for those who need a stable browser and early access to new features and capabilities. You can download from their website or whatever package manager you use. To celebrate, Microsoft added a Tux character to their little surfing game available at the "edge://surf" address in Edge. Even though most browsers feel largely the same, having the exact same application across platforms is good so people don't need to re-learn so much and keep their accounts together for bookmarks, passwords and whatever else. Will many traditional Linux users switch? That's not really a needed question and plenty will of course say no but having it available is important. Hey, you can even play a ton of AAA games in your browser now too. It feels like a pretty big occasion, although not the first official Microsoft application to actually land on Linux, it might end up being the most used since it's a web browser and so much depends on you using one nowadays. This means Edge will now be supported across Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and Linux.
On their official Edge blog, they announced that Edge will be launched today via the stable channel making it generally available for Linux.
Their browser, now based on the open source Chromium tech, was already available on Linux for a while but this was only in their preview channels but that changes today. Today they're properly releasing Edge for Linux. Microsoft aren't a company we exactly cover often but it seems fitting to cover it here, especially given their history with Linux.
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