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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

SCook1280

Brass Contributor

Oct 19, 2019

My understanding is that the version of Edge that can be installed on Android phones is compiled for Arm it's also using the Chromium engine. I don't know if it's 32 bit or 64 bit though but I do use it on my Android phone and it runs very well. I haven't heard anything and am just speculating but I would think that this could be used on Arm versions of Windows hardware. ChromeRefugee

ChromeRefugee

Iron Contributor

Oct 19, 2019

Thanks. I'm 99% sure that they'll go with the actual Edge Chromium based code that we can already use on ARM device, but in emulation mode. That version of Edge is optimized to work with large screens unlike - I assume - the android or iOS versions.

To bring a native Edge Chromium build to WOA systems they "simply" need to compile their existing code for ARM. It's beginning to look like they are having some problem though, either software, or perhaps patenting/licensing related. Totally guessing, but it's just weirdly quiet on the ARM front.