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Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux

posted by chromas on Friday April 12 2019, @03:45AM   
from the Microsoft-Loves-Linux dept.

DannyB writes:

Microsoft Say Edge May Come to Linux "Eventually"

When Microsoft announced it was switching the foundations of its home-grown Edge browser to a Chromium base we asked if it might allow the app to come to Linux.

[...] Microsoft's Kyle Pflug responded to the tux question on Twitter. He said that a Linux build is something the Edge team would "like to do eventually" but they 'can't commit to Linux just yet'.

Not yet – it's something we'd like to do eventually (our build system runs on Linux) but we're taking things one step at a time starting from Win10, and can't commit to Linux just yet.
— Kyle Pflug (@kylealden) April 8, 2019

[...] That said, the availability of Edge on Linux would help web developers working on Linux. They'd no longer need to keep a Windows VM within reach solely to double check changes.

[Editor's Comment: Irrelevant submitter's comment regarding systemd removed. --JR 120454 Apr]

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• Re:Please no (Score: 3, Funny) by tangomargarine on Friday April 12 2019, @08:52PM

  by tangomargarine (667) on Friday April 12 2019, @08:52PM (#828739)

  Maybe I am just not getting it, but if the browser is based on Chromium, and it doesn't seem very much like they took a giant hammer to it and made it incredibly incompatible and then claimed it as their own--why would developers on Linux choose to use it instead of just using... Chromium and a user agent tag?

  You've successfully proven that you're smarter than the management at Mozilla

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  "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"

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