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RameshIyer
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Dec 23, 2019

Will I move to stable release of Microsoft Edge Chromium automatically in January 2020

I recently read that Microsoft will be releasing a stable build of its work-in-progress Chromium-based Edge web browser sometime in January 2020. I have the regular Edge browser as well as the Beta c...
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HotCakeX
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Dec 25, 2019
How unstable exactly? I don't see any unstability on none of the systems me and my family work on.
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RameshIyer
Copper Contributor
Dec 25, 2019

HotCakeX 

 

Well, I use my Outlook.com mail account as well as OneDrive linked to it to store my personal data, mainly in Excel files. Had observed while using the Canary build of Edge-C that it would render the Excel files inconsistently, and I had to reformat data in cells pasted from another worksheet file. Also, some websites didn't seem to work well in Canary build of Edge-C. Haven't noticed such issues in Beta channel, yet. Maybe because Beta builds are the most stable builds among all three, i.e. Beta/Dev/Canary, as issues are resolved progressively from Canary to Dev to Beta channel builds.

For me stability and usability of standard features is more important in a web browser than experimenting with new features, which is what Canary builds are for, I suppose.

Anyway, the current Beta build seems the last one before final/stable release in mid-Jan'2020. It's quite usable even now, but hope it supports more extensions (in MS Store) going forward.

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