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Olivia_Zhang
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Mar 11, 2021

New Update Experience for Mac available in Edge Beta / Dev / Canary

Getting updates timely and smoothly is key to keeping web browsers secure. It also helps you try new experiences sooner on a fast-moving browser like Microsoft Edge.   Since Microsoft Edge launch...
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Anthony-123
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Aug 20, 2021

Olivia_Zhang 

  • When you restart the browser when an update is available, your browser will now instantly relaunch with the updated version rather than wait for update to be applied.   

The problem with this (I'm on 92.0.902.73) is that it also occurs when you QUIT the application. So, when you no longer want to use Edge and you quit it, you're made to wait for an update to process and for the browser to restart only for you to have to quit it again. If I wanted to wait around for software updates I'd use a Windows machine. Will this release resolve the issue I've described? 

 

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