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New Microsoft Edge for Xbox one
- GOOD NEWS.
Microsoft has started publicly testing the "Chromium-powered" version of their Edge browser on Xbox consoles. Xbox testers in the Alpha Skip-Ahead group can now access the new Microsoft Edge on Xbox One or Xbox Series S / X consoles. It is also planned that you will be able to use a USB keyboard and MOUSE with this new app, but in the early stages of Alphs, there still needs work to be done.
However, it is in testing and scheduled to be released sometime this summer - 2021.
WOO HOO !!!
Fabi_450 The new Microsoft Edge is based on Chromium and Chromium is a win32 app. Xbox One runs a form of Windows 10 that only supports UWP apps. Microsoft hasn't thought this out. They're ditching UWP and yet advocating for it. The conflict continues in the Office suite too with OneNote.
Microsoft just released the WebView2 browser control component that is based on the Chromium Edge browser.
pneenkoalabear This can also be used from UWP apps.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-general-availability-for-microsoft-edge-webview2-for-net-and-fixed-distribution-method/
This should provide the XBox developer team all they need to make an XBox shell for Chromium Edge. I hope this will be put on the roadmap ASAP.
- Um. That's literally impossible as I said before. Xbox is based on UWP. WebView2 is for Chromium Edge, which is win32. Therefore it cannot run on Xbox. WebView2 is available for "UWP" DESKTOP apps. An easy way to think about it is just as a portal or as a window into an interfaceless Edge.
It's not "literally impossible", you're just uninformed. Webview2 (the key component to make this happen) will be generally available by end of the year as part of .Net Core 3.1 on all platforms where .Net Core is currently available. It will likely onyl be a matter of a few more months depending on the priority they're giving to this (which I imagine is not very high). See the following links for more information about the years worth of work that have already been put towards these initiatives.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/
https://github.com/microsoft/ProjectReunion/blob/main/README.md
- Perhaps I am just uninformed. I have read that article and the Project Reunion readme before but still don't understand 😕 If anything, I am even more sure that there's a dependency on Edge Chromium which is a win32 app.
