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Edge on Linux
I'm in the exact same boat, I work in IT and therefore Linux is a must. And if I can't sync my browsing between _all_ my sessions, it's essentially useless.
Edge Canary blows Firefox away, but I just can't have it, due to the lack of a Linux build.
Which I'd be fine without, for the time being, but the fact that it's not even listed as a planned feature is somewhat worrying.
Viktor Berke "Edge Canary blows Firefox away, but I just can't have it, due to the lack of a Linux build. Which I'd be fine without, for the time being, but the fact that it's not even listed as a planned feature is somewhat worrying."
I noted that MS doesn't have any plans to port Edge Chromium over to Linux, too, and that's why I've been harping on them about it.
I understand that Microsoft has little or no financial incentive to support Linux, in terms of increasing customer base among Linux-only users. I doubt that many Linux-only users, independent to a fault, are going to be any more enthusiastic about the Microsoft ecosystem that they are about the Google ecosystem, so will probably stick with Firefox.
But for those of us with a foot in both worlds, porting Edge Chromium to Linux would be an important development. I'm not a Linux developer, but it seems to me that porting Edge through a Snap or a Flatpak would be a way to gather in some low-hanging fruit (that is, us) without expending much in the way of resources.
