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Elliot Kirk
Apr 08, 2019Former Employee
We're Listening!
Greetings Microsoft Edge Insiders!
Let us start off by saying, welcome to the Microsoft Edge Insider community! We’re so excited to have you here, and we can’t wait to start learning from you. If...
Justin_Noel
Nov 05, 2019Copper Contributor
Elliot Kirk I was just going to try the new Edge Beta for Mac. However, the download is for an installer package. I will NOT use an installer package for a browser. In fact, I won't use an installer package for just about anything. If Microsoft won't ship the browser for Mac via a DMG, I won't be using it.
Also, please see these tweet and it's followup: https://twitter.com/JustinNoelDev/status/1191713194777235456
- Drew1903Nov 05, 2019Silver Contributor
Justin_Noel
Justin,
It has not "shipped", yet. These are beta Builds we are testing. It is not yet embedded on or in any system. Hence, the current arrangement.
Cheers,
Drew - HotCakeXNov 05, 2019MVPI'm curious to know the reason behind this statement:
"No one is going to install a package via an installer. If it's not a DMG."
what's wrong with Installers?- Dan_AI4GKNov 05, 2019Iron Contributor
I'm wondering the same thing. I'm not a Mac guy, so I don't even know what a DMG is, and how it differs from an installer.
Regards,
Dan
- HotCakeXNov 05, 2019MVPFound some good info here:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/30695/why-are-so-many-mac-downloads-a-dmg-just-that-contains-a-single-pkg