Edge Chromium Also Coming to Linux, Confirms Microsoft

Microsoft this calendar week announced that its Chromium-based Edge browser will striking the stable channel on Jan 15 for Windows and macOS. The announcement, fabricated during the 'State of the Browser' session at the company's Ignite 2019 conference in Orlando, Florida, revealed that the browser will also come up to Linux at some stage. Sadly, though, there's no specific ETA for that all the same, with the company only proverb that Edge Chromium volition be available on Linux 'in the time to come'.

It's worth noting that while the Windows and macOS versions have seen quite a few canary/ beta releases upwardly until at present, this was the starting time time nosotros heard near a Linux version being in the works, which is certainly good news for all you lot Mint, Ubuntu and DSL users. Unfortunately, while you tin can already download the Border Chromium Release Candidate (RC) on Windows and macOS right now, there'due south no discussion when a pre-release version of the software will be available on the open-source platform.

Edge Chromium Coming to Linux as Well, Confirms Microsoft — GIF Courtesy: Microsoft (via The Verge)

In instance you lot don't know information technology already, Microsoft revealed a new icon for its upcoming Edge Chromium through an elaborate Easter Egg hunt terminal weekend. As can be seen in the GIF above, the new icon seems to be trying difficult to ditch the chequered legacy of Internet Explorer, which is why Microsoft moved away from the EdgeHTML engine and embraced Chromium in the kickoff identify.

The whole exercise is office of Microsoft'southward plans to deprecate its older Edge browser, which was originally released for Windows 10 in 2015, before being rolled out on Android, iOS and macOS. It was never officially released on Linux, then it's definitely a pleasant surprise to hear that the Chromium version will land on the open-source platform.

Featured Paradigm Courtesy: Microsoft (via The Verge)