How Can I Update Microsoft Edge for Mac without Microsoft AutoUpdate

[chenrylee]

Hi,

I'm running Microsoft Edge (stable) on MacOS, and recently I found Microsoft AutoUpdate costed too much resources, and caused the fan worked crazily. As a result, I uninstalled Microsoft AutoUpdate.

After that, when I open edge://settings/help, it shows check failed, and then it keeps "checking for update", for more than 48 hours already. 

How can I keep Edge updated without Microsoft AutoUpdate on MacOS? Thank you.

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Hi,
there have been significant changes done to the update process of Edge on Mac, not yet available on stable channel, but soon will be. you can read about it here:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/new-update-experience-for-mac-available-in-edge-cana...

but if you wanna install the updates yourself, you can download offline installers from here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/business/download

[#3]

Thank you @HotCakeX for your reply.

Per my understanding, if I download the pkg and install a new version, Microsoft AutoUpdate will be installed too. Am I right? If yes, it's really annoying, right? I have to remove this application every time.

[#4]

You're welcome,

well the idea is to have a proper and working updater, it's not really recommended to uninstall it, but as you can see there has been a big change in that area so if you can give it a try and see what you think ^^

[#5]

Thank you.

You know even though sometimes MAU does help, it's disgusting that Microsoft prevents you from other update channels.
Like other browsers for Mac (FF, Chrome), it's a portable package, but for Edge, it's a installer.

Anyway, I'm still looking for a way to update Edge without MAU.

[#6]

@chenrylee I am interested in this too. I want just Edge, which is also not running natively on arm64 yet.