Install Microsoft Edge Browser Beta or Dev Version There's no compelling reason to switch to Edge. If you're happy using Firefox or one of the others, go ahead and stick with it. I've been happily using Chrome for years now across platforms, and I won't be changing. Honestly, I don't see any compelling performance reasons to switch from Chrome or Firefox to Edge on Linux. For better or worse, mine's already locked into the Googleverse and I can live with that. It's that Chrome is more than fast enough for my purposes and I don't want my information tied into the Microsoft ecosystem. No, it's not because I'm still mad at what Microsoft did to Linux as revealed in the Halloween documents of 1998. That said, I can't see myself moving to it. Oddly, Edge, which turned in a poor performance when I recently benchmarked it on Windows, did well on Linux. Here, Chrome and Edge tied for first with 528. A perfect score, which none got, would have been 550. It just shows how close each browser comes to being in sync with the HTML 5 standard. You'd think by 2020, every browser would comply with the HTML 5 web standard, which became a standard in 2014. It was an easy winner with a score of 272. These should work just as they do with Edge on macOS and Windows. These include core rendering behaviors, extensions, browser DevTools, and test automation features. This preview does come with the key web platform and developer tools features. This initial release is meant for developers who want to build and test their sites and apps on Linux. More detailed instructions are available on Microsoft's Edge-on-Linux blog post. If you don't trust Microsoft that much, you can also install Edge via Microsoft's Linux Software Repository for Microsoft Products. This also configures a system to get future automatic updates. rpm package directly from the Edge Insider site. To get started, users can download and install a.

Microsoft is planning to release weekly builds, just as it does with the Dev Channel builds for other platforms. It should run on any Linux using DEB or RPM packaging. The new release comes ready to run on Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE Linux distributions. Now, the first beta of Edge on Linux is here.

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