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ChromeRefugee
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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...
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ChromeRefugee
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Nov 08, 2019
Does anyone know where twitter user ADeltaX gets his ARM64 Edge builds? He uses a bot to post links to - presumably - freshly compiled exe files, but I'd rather get them directly from Microsoft. It seems like a bad idea to install executables posted by a third party!
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    ChromeRefugee
    Iron Contributor
    Nov 08, 2019

    If this was a response to my question, I know where to find his exe links, but I wonder if there's an official page (e.g. MS Git page? Disclosure, I don't know what I'm saying). ADeltaX sounds like a nice guy, but installing exe files from an unknown location is kind of bad practice!

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      Charbax
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      Nov 08, 2019

      ChromeRefugee yes please save us Microsoft! :lol:

       

      Also, whatever the holdup is with getting Google's official Chrome on ARM64, I hope they do the drinking, or whatever needs to be done behind the stage for this to become available sooner if possible.

       

      https://www.neowin.net/news/chrome-for-windows-on-arm-is-ready-but-google-isnt-releasing-it/

       

      And yes, we really need MS Office on ARM64, why isn't that made yet? And if Qualcomm/Microsoft could award developers some kind of support money to help them speed up porting all the most important apps to ARM64 that would be nice. Like I hope to see the complete Adobe app suite available on ARM64 as soon as possible.

       

      A $1000+ Microsoft Surface Pro X is not helping much with that though. We need to see these SQ1/8cx laptops come out now at sub-$500 as soon a possible.

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        Henry08
        Iron Contributor
        Nov 08, 2019

        Charbax  Neowin published an article yesterday where ARM64 build was mentioned:

        https://www.neowin.net/news/microsofts-new-edge-will-ship-without-arm64-support-history-sync-and-extension-sync

         

        "The reason for the lack of ARM64 support is a blocking bug that is exclusive to the ARM architecture. Microsoft did indeed plan to announce support for the chip architecture at its October 2 event alongside of the ARM-powered Surface Pro X, but it just wasn't ready, and it's still not ready. ARM64 support is definitely coming though, just in case anyone was worried."

         

        I guess there is some windows related bug with ARM64 chromium, search by keywords shown this

        https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=893460

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