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Dev Channel - Weekly Updates?
Glad to see others have not been updated from 74.1.96.24 like myself.
Strange that some have posted thay they have received an update in the Dev. Channel?
Perhaps changing to the Canary Channel might be better?
Davy-D Glad to see others have not been updated from 74.1.96.24 like myself.
Strange that some have posted thay they have received an update in the Dev. Channel?
I haven't seen those posts, but as far as I know (based on posts from Microsoft employees on the Edge team) the Dev channel has not been updated to date, so I don't know what is going on. @ericlaw (a Microsoft employee on the Microsoft Tech Community) posted this on another thread yesterday, in case you haven't seen it yet: "[T]his first Dev build is a bit special and I believe the plan is that the first weekly update will be skipped. Weekly update cadence should begin soon." I'm looking for an update next week.
As to the choice of Canary or Dev, that's up to you. Canary is on a daily unpdate rhythm, Dev on a weekly. Canary is less stable than Dev, intentionally so. You can expect Canary updates to crash and burn from time to time (a daily build crashed while scrolling last week; that issue was resolved in the next day's build), while Dev builds (which pick and choose from the best of the past week's Canary features/functions, deploying after user and regression testing) are less likely to do so.
It is a matter of testing style. After I understood the inherent stability of Edge Chromium, I decided to make the new browser my daily driver, using it exclusively when I'm in a Windows environment. And for that, I wanted reasonably stable builds, pointing me to Dev. Others enjoy being on the cutting (bleeding?) edge of testing, and don't need/want the stability. If that fits your style, go for it. Its up to you. Every tester is doing a service.
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