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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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Jerasadar
Copper Contributor
Nov 07, 2019

There is a Telegram channel that is releasing the newest builds of Edge Chromium for x86, x64, and ARM. I have been running it on my Galaxy Book2 for a while now with no ill effects. It is super smooth and much faster than the x86 builds. All the usual "not an official build, try at your own risk" blah blah blah applies.

 

Edit: Also, looks like January 15th is the target date for an official ARM64 Edge Chromium build.

https://t.me/MSEdgeUpdates

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    Gerdi444
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 12, 2019

    Jerasadar 

     

    Thanks for linking the Telegram channel. I just installed it - and it is running great even on my older HP Envy X2 - really smooth.

    Makes you wonder why there is no official beta or canary version available from Microsoft? I mean a beta program is there in order to iron out all the bugs - so the explanation about a bug holding the beta release back does not sound reasonable to me.

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      Tom-J
      Copper Contributor
      Nov 12, 2019

      Gerdi444I have a Huawei Matebook E (2019). I'm very interested to try the Edge for ARM beta.

       

      I'm currently using Firefox ARM but it's Firefox, it's not quite as snappy as Chromium browsers are. Standard Edge is okay but not very feature rich.

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      Jerasadar
      Copper Contributor
      Nov 12, 2019
      I'm glad it helped. I've seen speculation here and elsewhere that there may be a legal reason Microsoft hasn't released this officially yet. Technically this build works as well as any other Chromium build and I've found no real bugs, so I'm inclined to believe there is another issue such as with the GIT or something else.
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    Charbax
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 08, 2019
    Awesome thanks a lot for that Telegram! My Snapdragon 850 Laptop is getting smoother every day now! Firefox ARM64 (official beta) and now also EdgeChromium ARM64 (unofficial Telgram beta), nice!
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    Tom-J
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 08, 2019
    Let's hope that date doesn't get pushed back.

    Meanwhile the Office team really need to get Office on ARM sorted.

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