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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

Oct 18, 2019

Continuing my conversation with myself: given that we haven't even seen a BETA version of Edge Chromium on ARM, I'm going out on a limb and predict that MS will not have Edgium ARM ready for the Surface Pro X.

Predicted result: users will install Chrome (because standard Edge is not up to snuff for many), then find out that Chrome runs terribly in emulation mode, which they will blame on the Pro X, which will lead to a tarnished image of the Pro X.