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Iron Contributor

May 20, 2019

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ETA for ARM / Snapdragon support of Edge Chromium

Not sure if this has been asked before, but is there an ETA for an ARM compatible build of Edgium? The 32bit version works in emulation mode, but ARM native would be much faster and more power effici...

Elliot Kirk
Oct 23, 2019
Hi ChromeRefugee, I am jumping straight to the end to respond. We are working on a native ARM64 version of Microsoft Edge. You can read about it here: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/04/08/microsoft-edge-preview-channel-details/#d4RSZSQO3yPS3Bv6.97. While we don't have anything to announce now, please be sure that we are still working diligently on bringing our new browser to ARM64 devices as soon as possible. Thanks - Elliot

ChromeRefugee

Iron Contributor

Nov 13, 2019

...and finally, just late enough to make sure reviewers of the Pro X got a bad first impression, it's here: https://www.onmsft.com/news/microsoft-releases-canary-channel-version-of-microsoft-edge-for-arm-almost-just-in-time-for-surface-pro-x. Better late than never I guess!

Now why the heck has the team been so quiet on release dates for ARM builds?!

Mike719

Copper Contributor

Jul 03, 2020

ChromeRefugee Did they take this down? I don't see a way to select ARM on the Canary or any of the other channels.

ChromeRefugee
Iron Contributor
Jul 03, 2020
Mike719 Not as far as I know. The Stable channel includes an ARM build for WOA devices. If you install Edge from the https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge?form=MO12GC&OCID=MO12GC, it should automatically install the ARM version if you're installing on an ARM system. Once you run it, there's a way to check if it's the ARM version in the Task Manager, see http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/threads/samsung-galaxy-book-2-2018.74455/page-37#post-541879.
- Charbax
  Copper Contributor
  Jul 03, 2020
  Yes I use the Edge ARM64 every day, works great. They pushed it out after this thread. There still isn't a Google Chrome for ARM64 though?? There is a holdup there which I really don't like. The Chrome browser on ARM64 is so slow and unstable. Edge ARM64 is great but as far as I can see it can't synchronize data/passwords/URLs and etc from Chrome, why not? Just have some kind of deal to synchronize all the data with Chrome and all will be totally fine on the ARM64 world. Now that Apple finally also has woken up to ARM, and Google is making their own ARM chip for Chromebooks, hopefully this is shortly going to further improve.