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Chrome releases paused due to Corona virus - effects on Edge?
Sure, technically nothing would stop Microsoft from calling it a day on version 81 and releasing it to stable without the last fixes on the Chromium upstream codebase, of which there would otherwise still be a week left (I think). But since I think Microsoft does not want their Chromium code to diverge too strongly (or at all) from upstream and restrict most changes to Edge-specific code, I have the feeling they would not do that. Hence my inquiry.
I don't know how they manage and merge Chromium changes to Edge but they must have the know how to fix the bugs in Chromium for their own Edge browser and prevent divergence. they already contributed back so much so they know how to work with Chromium.
there is no ETA when Google wants to come back to work.
Microsoft has their own customers and companies to deal with and take care of.
Google doesn't answer to Microsoft customers.
these companies gotta learn from Elon Musk, how the Tesla factory and SpaceX keep working, they even said they're going to make ventilators if necessary for others. in the time when Google engineers were "unavailable", they launched a rocket carrying 60 satellites, yesterday March 18, successfully. imagine if "Google" was in charge of it.
Google's excuse is they can't sync employee's time zones. Chrome 81 was supposed to be released 2 days ago. March 17.
anyways, i don't know what Microsoft is going to do, but for what it's worth I hope they use this opportunity to overtake Google. the world shouldn't think that if Google is unavailable then it's the end of the time.
Well, it seems I was right: https://twitter.com/MSEdgeDev/status/1241055996379664384
I guess it remains to be seen if this means Beta will stay on 81 for now as well.EDIT: It seems all Insider channels including Beta are exempt. https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/03/20/update-stable-channel-releases/
Well, I don't think that is very true as Canary has not had an update since last Wednesday (3/18/20) which was "Version 82.0.458.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit)" and since they do not update on the weekends we will probably not see an update till Monday and that at this time since we have no word from the team is even certain to happen.........
Dennis5mile- It does say in the announcement from yesterday that "preview channels (Canary, Dev, and Beta) will continue to update on their usual schedule". I'd say that is "a word".
