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New Microsoft Edge for Xbox one
- GOOD NEWS.
Microsoft has started publicly testing the "Chromium-powered" version of their Edge browser on Xbox consoles. Xbox testers in the Alpha Skip-Ahead group can now access the new Microsoft Edge on Xbox One or Xbox Series S / X consoles. It is also planned that you will be able to use a USB keyboard and MOUSE with this new app, but in the early stages of Alphs, there still needs work to be done.
However, it is in testing and scheduled to be released sometime this summer - 2021.
WOO HOO !!!
Microsoft just released the WebView2 browser control component that is based on the Chromium Edge browser.
pneenkoalabear This can also be used from UWP apps.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-general-availability-for-microsoft-edge-webview2-for-net-and-fixed-distribution-method/
This should provide the XBox developer team all they need to make an XBox shell for Chromium Edge. I hope this will be put on the roadmap ASAP.
It's not "literally impossible", you're just uninformed. Webview2 (the key component to make this happen) will be generally available by end of the year as part of .Net Core 3.1 on all platforms where .Net Core is currently available. It will likely onyl be a matter of a few more months depending on the priority they're giving to this (which I imagine is not very high). See the following links for more information about the years worth of work that have already been put towards these initiatives.
Microsoft Edge WebView2 Control - Microsoft Edge Development | Microsoft Docs
ProjectReunion/README.md at main · microsoft/ProjectReunion (github.com)
- Perhaps I am just uninformed. I have read that article and the Project Reunion readme before but still don't understand 😕 If anything, I am even more sure that there's a dependency on Edge Chromium which is a win32 app.
I just tried installing the MSIX beta package on my Win 10 Pro laptop, and I think the error message will bring you some joy (in bold towards the end).
App installation failed with error message: Windows cannot install package Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge.Beta_88.0.705.15_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe because this package is not compatible with the device. The package can only be installed on the following device families: Windows.Core Windows.Holographic Windows.Xbox (0x80073cfd)
Edit: I did also try downloading and installing on the Xbox and it didn't know what to open it with, so maybe we're just waiting on a system update to support MSIX and also maybe for it to be put in the store.
