ETA on Edge (built on Chromium)?

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

Conversation 9 comments

  • kshsystems

    Premium Member
    04 September, 2019 - 9:26 am

    <p>not that I have heard, but I would guess 20H1 timeframe</p>

  • sentinel6671

    Premium Member
    04 September, 2019 - 11:46 pm

    <p>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. :)</p>

    • Tony Barrett

      05 September, 2019 - 5:59 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#458279">In reply to sentinel6671:</a></em></blockquote><p>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 &amp; Firefox make around 30 calls, Opera a little more (some dubious sites too!). New Edge makes <em>over 130 calls</em> to external sites on STARTUP – most are to various MS data collection services, which I thought was pretty staggering.</p>

      • navarac

        05 September, 2019 - 6:37 am

        <blockquote><em><a href="#458713">In reply to ghostrider:</a></em></blockquote><p>Easy. Stop using browsers. The old saying – nothing is free.</p>

      • coeus89

        05 September, 2019 - 1:00 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#458713">In reply to ghostrider:</a></em></blockquote><p>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.</p>

  • madthinus

    Premium Member
    05 September, 2019 - 5:25 am

    <p>They indicated late 2019 early 2020. </p>

  • ggolcher

    Premium Member
    05 September, 2019 - 11:09 am

    <p><a href="https://www.chromestatus.com/features/schedule&quot; target="_blank">https://www.chromestatus.com/features/schedule</a&gt; 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.</p><p><br></p><p>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 "<span style="color: rgb(8, 14, 20);">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." (</span><a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-makes-chromium-based-edge-beta-available-for-windows-and-macos/&quot; target="_blank">https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-makes-chromium-based-edge-beta-available-for-windows-and-macos/</a><span style="color: rgb(8, 14, 20);">). So there's that.</span></p>

    • Lordbaal

      11 September, 2019 - 11:59 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#459358">In reply to ggolcher:</a></em></blockquote><p>Edge is using Chromium, but Edge is not Chrome. So it won't be on the same schedule as Chrome.</p>

  • allberry2001

    10 September, 2019 - 9:57 pm

    <p>I can't wait to try it on my Chromebook </p>

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