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Deployment - Fonts, Favorites, Sync
You can test the Enterprise Edge insider stable from the link below
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Official-Download-links-for-Microsoft-Edge-Stable-Enterprise/m-p/1082549
and unlike the previous ones, this has 2 distinct features:
1. it is uninstallable.
2. it is an offline installer.
as we are getting closer to the release date and Microsoft employees being on holidays, they will probably have around 1 week before January 15's release date so there is a high chance that the version of Edge stable from that link is actually the final one.
you might get a day 1 update though.
just like Windows itself. Microsoft RTMs a build 2 months before public release and on day 1 everyone will get a cumulative update.
Also you can have both of them side by side without blocking either of them from being installed/uninstalled.
HotCakeX "You can test the Enterprise Edge insider stable from the link below ..."
The Enterprise version (the version downloaded through your link as MicrosoftEdgeEnterpriseX64.msi) and the consumer version (the version downloaded through Microsoft Insider as MicrosoftEdgeSetupBeta.exe) are the same version (both 79.0.309.56), but neither seem particularly useful for testing Microsoft's planned upgrade process through the Windows 10 updater because both are manual installs and neither imports favorites/bookmarks from EdgeClassic; both link to the EdgeChromium server's MSA if available**. The difference between the two installs is that Enterprise removes EdgeClassic and the Windows Insider install does not.
"... there is a high chance that the version of Edge stable from that link is actually the final one ..."
I assume so, since the Enterprise version and the consumer version are identical build numbers.
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** I brought one of the railroad's computers home for a clean install of Windows 10. At present, the computer is a clean version of Windows 10 set to a local account rather than an MSA, so if EdgeChromium is going to install bookmarks from anywhere, it will be from EdgeClassic. I'll take some time tomorrow to populate EdgeClassic with a set of "fingerprinted" favorites/bookmarks and see what happens when I install the Enterprise version.
- That's not the only difference.
They do import favorites/reading list/tabs set aside etc from Edge classic and even from Internet explorer.
I just tried it myself a couple of hours ago."They do import favorites/reading list/tabs set aside etc from Edge classic and even from Internet explorer."
You are right about that (as it applies to favorites -- I don't have reading lists or tabs set aside, not do I use IE, so I'll take your word for that). I didn't notice it immediately after install because my Favorites Bar on the test machine (1366x768) masked the import from Edge because the Chromium favorites took up the entire bar. I took a closer look after reading this post and saw the duplicates.**
It looks like EdgeChromium imported the EdgeClassic bookmarks and added them to the EdgeChromium bookmarks. In any event, I now have 16 duplicate favorites on the Favorites Bar, and 11 duplicate favorites in the "Other favorites" menu, the EdgeClassic favorites contained in a folder labeled "Bookmarks".
I'm glad you prodded me into looking closer. This is something I had been wondering about, and now I know what will happen in cases where there are two MSA sets, one on the EdgeClassic server and the other on the EdgeChromium server.
- Well that's good to hear 🙂