May 20 2019 09:31 AM - edited May 20 2019 09:31 AM
This morning we published the first builds of our Microsoft Edge browser built for macOS. You can read our full blog post about it here. Then download it, if you are running a Mac, and then come back here and tell us what you think.
May 20 2019 04:42 PM
May 20 2019 07:04 PM
May 21 2019 04:36 AM
Cool, awesome man. Is there an estimate on when it will come out for windows 7, windows 8, and windows 8.1?
May 21 2019 06:39 AM
I'm building .Net Core desktop applications with embedded browser control
As Microsoft Edge is now available for macOS, is it possible to provide a .Net Core library with .Net bindings to underlining engine, for Win/macOS/Linux, so to use it in my applications.
There is a need for a reliable .Net bindings library.
May 21 2019 09:22 AM
@Elliot Kirk 20% cpu load on macOS 10.14.5 without any opened pages - MS Edge 76.0.161.0. ;(
May 21 2019 11:43 AM
May 21 2019 06:27 PM
May 21 2019 08:21 PM
@Elliot KirkWill there be the ability to import and/or access macOS Keychain items?
May 22 2019 01:44 AM
@Elliot Kirk First impressions from a regular Safari user.
I know Edge for Mac is based on Chromium, but I don't use Google Chrome due to issues with energy usage and privacy, so some of the 'chrome-like' elements of Edge for Mac are unfamiliar to me. Many of the good points I cite below are quite possibly things that Edge gets 'for free' because it's based on Chromium.
The good:
- It feels very fast
- It respects the system-wide dark mode
- Easy to change font sizes, which is important to me from an accessibility standpoint
The not so good:
- It feels like a port from another OS; close buttons on the right of the tabs?!
- Non-standard contextual menus feel quite alien
- On first launch it offers to import bookmarks from Chrome, but not the default Mac browser Safari
On a general point I do wonder how much continuous re-skinning is going to be needed over time to keep Edge looking and feeling like a true at-home Mac app.
That said it's good to have another browser choice on the platform. I can't remember the last time I used a Microsoft browser on the Mac!
May 22 2019 08:31 AM - edited May 22 2019 08:39 AM
@Elliot Kirk Not sure if this happened to anybody else, but I had to disable the defender browser protection as it kept flagging most sites I went to, including al MS site's, as "This website has been reported as unsafe". Other than that so far so good.
Edit: One note, I have the defender browser protection extension used with google chrome on the mac, and it doesn't flag the same sites unsafe.
May 22 2019 12:48 PM
Love the look, but have an issue that everytime I open Edge it says it's not syncing and I have to log out and back in and it'll work for a while but the stops again
May 22 2019 03:27 PM
Similar to above poster, I am unable to sync at all in Edge for MacOS, using latest build Version 76.0.167.0 (Official build) Canary (64-bit)
I can sign out, remove accounts, re-add them, etc, and after telling it to sync it just goes back to "Not Syncing" status, mine doesn't even work for a short time, just doesn't work at all.
Have tried two different Outlook accounts, same exact issue. Was working fine until yesterday's build.
May 22 2019 07:13 PM
@Elliot Kirk Same issue as people above me. Unable to sync anything using my Microsoft account. I am on Version 76.0.167.0 (Official build) Canary (64-bit)
May 22 2019 09:50 PM
@Elliot Kirk-- I'm unable to install and test on MacOS 10.12. On the troubleshooting page, it says Edge Insider builds are "available on macOS 10.10 Yosemite or higher", but after I downloaded the Canary 76.0.167.0 installer package, it says "Microsoft Edge Canary Update 76.0.167.0 can't be installed on this disk. OS X version 10.12 or later is required" (see attached screenshot).
I'm hopeful this is just an installer config snafu and can be easily corrected.
May 23 2019 10:07 AM
@Elliot Kirk -- Very Important feature missing on Edge with MacOS... the microphone does not work when using the Google Search web page even when Google has been given microphone access. Test at other pages show the mic is accepting audio into the browser but it refuses to take the audio on Google's page. This needs to be fixed. Pushing the mic icon on the Google web page will not take audio input.
May 23 2019 04:02 PM
In today's 76.0.168.0, syncing is still broken but differently so.
If I sign out and back in, it works temporarily- until I close the browser. But once I re-open it, syncing is broken again.
May 24 2019 01:04 PM
@callofthevoid i have the same issue works ok until i close it then have to sign out and back in for it to work
May 26 2019 09:42 AM
I talked with the Sync team on Friday afternoon, and they told me that there is an issue with the authentication which is needed for sync to work. We believe that we have the right fix for this and it should make it into the Canary channel early next week.