ETA on Edge (built on Chromium)?

by JimP

Posted on September 4, 2019

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Is there any ETA (or guestimate) on when the Chromium-based Edge will be released to the general public?

Comments (9)

9 responses to “ETA on Edge (built on Chromium)?”

  1. kshsystems

    not that I have heard, but I would guess 20H1 timeframe

    3 years ago
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  2. sentinel6671

    I'm on the Beta Channel and have yet to have an issue. It's become my solid daily driver. So happy to have Chrome that's not Chrome. :)

    3 years ago
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    • Tony Barrett

      In reply to sentinel6671:

      Great, so now instead of everything being sent to Google, it gets sent to MS. Is that actually better? I read an interesting report on the number of connections all the main browsers make on startup to various external sites. Chrome & Firefox make around 30 calls, Opera a little more (some dubious sites too!). New Edge makes over 130 calls to external sites on STARTUP - most are to various MS data collection services, which I thought was pretty staggering.

      3 years ago
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      • navarac

        In reply to ghostrider:

        Easy. Stop using browsers. The old saying - nothing is free.

        3 years ago
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      • coeus89

        In reply to ghostrider:

        Well they will naturally be collecting data when it is released. I bet the extra volume if calls is from it being in beta and therefor them collecting additional information that they wouldn't want from production users. Just a guess though. If you really want a privacy focused browser, use firefox.

        3 years ago
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  3. madthinus

    They indicated late 2019 early 2020.

    3 years ago
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  4. ggolcher

    https://www.chromestatus.com/features/schedule says that the current version in beta (77) goes stable in early September. There's a chance that'll be the case for Edge 77 which is beta right now.


    But there's a chance that won't be the case (like v76 which did not follow Chromium's progression to Stable). Mary Jo Foley says "Microsoft still isn't providing a target date as to when Chredge will be generally available, but it's unlikely to happen until either very late this year or sometime in 2020." (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-makes-chromium-based-edge-beta-available-for-windows-and-macos/). So there's that.

    3 years ago
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  5. allberry2001

    I can't wait to try it on my Chromebook

    3 years ago
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