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Microsoft*UPDATED* Dev channel update to 78.0.262.0 is live
I know. My point was that the version number of Edge Dev on my laptop never changed, including the final .1. I had Edge sitting there on the Settings>About page, refreshing it every now and then looking for the expected weekly update, but it never showed itself doing an update, and at some point the favourites address bar button and the Share menu entry appeared that were supposed to come with the update from 78.0.249.1 to 256.2, even though I never saw an update indicated and the version number remained the same after as it was before. Which is odd.
I'm not on Dev, so I'm not sure what build their on right now. Canary is pretty stable enough for me that I use that as my priority browser....if that becomes unstable (which has been almost no existent for me) I jump onto Chromium or lastly Chrome Canary and of course I still have the old Edge. That problem you mention could be a glitch or an error of updating the revised number or they simply corrected the issues at hand but kept it under the same build number. I don't know have Edge is working their uploads and build revisions. Good thing is Dev comes out once a week so whatever didn't show up or work out might (or will) in the next week version and one can always use Canary.
It's happened again!
Edge Dev has been running, but underneath several other program windows I was actually using like Thunderbird and Firefox (which I use for normal browsing because Edge Dev doesn't keep the menu open when I middle click on favourites in favourite menus). Just brought Edge Dev to the front of the window stack, and some time since I posted before a 'Global Media Controls' button has appeared on the Address bar to the left of the Favourite button. That was NOT there earlier, but the version number still hasn't changed from what it has been for the last week. So that's at least two different silent updates that have happened today, with no indication of an update and no change in version number.
You can try uninstalling and reinstalling to see if everything that appear is still there or install on a second computer and compare. I know MS (like Google) has an auto updater. It's running in the background of your task scheduler and usually does a daily check if not hourly and it silently uploads any new updates. Maybe that can be it. Here is a picture from mine. "GoogleUpdateTaskUser" is Googles. MicrosoftEdgeTaskUpdateTaskUser is there and it describes that it does:
- I believe I read online that Microsoft pulled this update since they were having issues getting the Dev Edge to update.
