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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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Wade Dorrell

Brass Contributor

Dec 15, 2021

Hmm... is there an update on this? Running 97.0.1072.34 (Official build) Beta (arm64) I don't see msMicrosoftEdgeTestMacUpdate under edge://version/?show-variations-cmd, and it appears Microsoft AutoUpdate wants to handle updates for Edge Beta (it lists both Edge Beta and Edge that I have installed.)

I hope Microsoft still plans to move forward with this, or to bring the silent/non-intrusive update behaviors to Microsoft AutoUpdate itself. I've had to manually quit Edge 96, and wait out the Microsoft AutoUpdate dialog as it downloads/installs, 3 times this week, I think - a bit ridiculous.