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Edge Dev installing to incorrect directory
Edge Dev on x64 bit hardware
Target: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Dev\Application\msedge.exe"
Start in: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Dev\Application"
Correct path should be
Target: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Edge Dev\Application\msedge.exe"
Start in: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Edge Dev\Application"
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This is very confusing, especially since I'm running on ARM. The release channel does not support ARM (it doesn't mention it, it just runs as 32-bit and incredibly slow due to emulation). I assumed it was running x86 code since it was installed to "C:\Program Files (x86)\".
After some searching, I find out that the release channel does not yet support ARM. So I hunt down the BETA channel and install it, only to see that it too installs to "Program Files (x86)". After even more googling, I realize that since it's now running as 64-bit, that it's indeed running ARM64 (and is performing much better due to lack of emulation). But how confusing to install that to "C:\Program Files (x86)\" instead of "C:\Program Files (Arm)\".
To make matters more confusing, Windows Task Manager only shows you bitness in the platform column, so you only ever see "32-bit" and "64-bit", but have no idea if it's running native ARM code or x86 code via emulation. I usually fall back to looking at the installation path, which Edge is violating.- I'm pretty sure the Edge developers are aware of that and are doing that intentionally for their Internal purposes or some future plans we're not aware of. so that's not really incorrect, just unconventional, and honestly for a software that is in alpha (dev) and pre-alpha (canary) state i think it's normal.
