You decide which software you use on your system. Please note: this article is about how to install Edge on Ubuntu, not why you should install it. Read our hands on with Edge for Linux development builds for a broader overview on what works, what doesn’t, and what you should keep in mind if you plan to use it otherwise. Any website, web app, or web service that works in any Chromium-based browser, such as Google Chrome, will work in Edge too.Įven better: you can install Chrome extensions in Edge too (though Microsoft maintains its own extension hub for browser add-ons). Microsoft Edge is based on Chromium, the open-source browser engine developed (though not exclusively) by Google. Plus, both methods set things up so that you get future updates when they’re released, automatically. You can download and install the exact same version of Microsoft’s new-fangled browser. It doesn’t matter which method you choose. This guide shows you how to install Microsoft Edge on Ubuntu or any Ubuntu-based Linux distribution such as Linux Mint in two ways: a graphical (GUI) method, and a command line (CLI) method. Article taken from Microsoft Edge for Linux now stable we show you how to install it on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and related Linux distributions.Īs it’s based on the same foundation as Google Chrome, you can use Chrome extensions in Edge You can download from their website or whatever package manager you use. To celebrate, Microsoft added a Tux character to their little surfing game available at the "edge://surf" address in Edge. Even though most browsers feel largely the same, having the exact same application across platforms is good so people don't need to re-learn so much and keep their accounts together for bookmarks, passwords and whatever else. Will many traditional Linux users switch? That's not really a needed question and plenty will of course say no but having it available is important.
Hey, you can even play a ton of AAA games in your browser now too. It feels like a pretty big occasion, although not the first official Microsoft application to actually land on Linux, it might end up being the most used since it's a web browser and so much depends on you using one nowadays. This means Edge will now be supported across Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and Linux.
On their official Edge blog, they announced that Edge will be launched today via the stable channel making it generally available for Linux. Their browser, now based on the open source Chromium tech, was already available on Linux for a while but this was only in their preview channels but that changes today. Today they're properly releasing Edge for Linux. Microsoft aren't a company we exactly cover often but it seems fitting to cover it here, especially given their history with Linux.
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