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Privacy & Security Tab: Edge Canary (77.0.217.0) vs Chromium (77.0.3852.0)
Deleted - Yeah I don't know. Good point.
- AnthonyJul 12, 2019Steel Contributor
I'm thinking, but could be wrong that the Insider/Development program (alpha/beta) will continue on indefinitely even after stable release of the new Edge. So we'll see more new add on and improvements before they hit Stable release. I know Google Chromes program of Canary, Development, and Beta has been going on for about eleven years where users do this and are encouraged to do so by Google. In fact they even have their version of Canary on Android so I'm wondering if Microsoft will eventually do the same.
Reference: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chrome.canaryI suspect another reason Google does this is because in a sense they now have four browsers of Chrome out there compared to Edge's single one version especially on Android. Even though the the other three Google browsers are beta they are still there to attract users. Especially to get people to use the stable version than bounce to the Developer version to compare what's coming to stable, and maybe than Canary in keeping them "in the Google family of browsers". It's actually good marketing on their behalf. If I put on "Chrome" in the Google Play Store search bar I get four Chrome versions of their browser come up lol. Firefox is doing the same thing with their "Firefox Nightly" app.