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MicrosoftNew Update Experience for Mac available in Edge Beta / Dev / Canary
Getting updates timely and smoothly is key to keeping web browsers secure. It also helps you try new experiences sooner on a fast-moving browser like Microsoft Edge.
Since Microsoft Edge launched on MacOS, we have heard your feedback on the update experience on Mac devices, specifically:
- Having to update through Microsoft AutoUpdate can be confusing, especially since it typically is used to update the Office suite applications.
- edge://settings/help was not always consistent with Microsoft AutoUpdate in showing update availability
- Update experience was not rapid: when you close and then reopen your browser when a new update is available, you will need to wait until the update is applied before browser restarts.
We are now excited to announce an improved update experience on Mac to address your feedback, making updating faster and smoother. This experience is currently rolled out to Mac users (both Intel and M1 users) on Beta versions higher than 93.0.961.11, Dev versions higher than 91.0.852.0 or Canary versions higher than 90.0.816.0 behind a feature flag.
Here are some highlights of the new experience:
- The new update experience is now Edge-native. It will solely be responsible for updating Edge-related products and will not be affected (e.g. blocked) by other pending product updates. Updates will happen automatically and silently, and no out-of-Edge notifications/toasts will be shown.
- Update sizes are now reduced by as much as 80% on average! This speeds up updates by over two thirds!
- edge://settings/help now more consistently reflects update status and allows seamless updates. In-app update notifications are promptly reflected when an update becomes available.
- When you restart the browser when an update is available, your browser will now instantly relaunch with the updated version rather than wait for update to be applied.
As always, please do not hesitate to send any feedback on the update experience our way so that we can make your experience better! You can do so by selecting the "send feedback" button or going to … menu -> Help and Feedback -> send feedback.
Olivia_Zhang When can we expect this to be released on the stable channel?
It's frustrating whenever there's a new update released, the browser basically never going to open itself after the update, even by clicking the app icon. I have to force quit the MSEdge in Activity Monitor to get it to works again.
- Olivia_ZhangHello! Thank you for your feedback, I am sorry to hear about your current experience on MAU. Have you tried giving it longer to update after Edge closes? Do you end up getting stuck regardless?
We don't have a set timeline yet but we are actively working on the new updater and are eager to bring it to everyone!- So the Edge is basically stuck forever, but for some reason, there's an invisible Edge window that cannot be close, I guess it's maybe something to do with the update stuck? Anyway, I have to force close the Edge in Activity Monitor to end the "forever stuck" issue.
So this might not be related to this topic, but the invisible window seems to be quite an annoying issue to due with, this is so far what I can find on Google that exactly describe my issue
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251214156
Olivia_Zhang hi, i wanna know when will this feature be supported in the stable version? Is there a clear version number or schedule? thank you!
- Olivia_ZhangHello, thanks for your feedback. There isn't a set release version yet, but we are actively working on it and will make announcement when it makes it to Stable!
- Hi, is there any news to share on this? Where should I look for an announcement? Thanks.
- Is this also now available with Edge 95.0.1020.30 in the stable channel on Mac?
Olivia_Zhang Hi, what's the feature flag? I'm on 91.0.822.0 and can't find anything related to update at edge://flags/
- Olivia_Zhang
Tero Alhonen Hi Tero, look for msMicrosoftEdgeTestMacUpdate under edge://version/?show-variations-cmd. It's not surfaced under edge://flags since it can't be turned off.
Olivia_Zhang thanks, now I'm seeing an error
- How can we mange the new updates? Where can i find the new Polices for this?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies- Olivia_ZhangWe are working on enabling policies for this new update experience. Currently enterprise users will not move to the new experience. Thank you for supporting Edge!
- Thank you very much, this is very good.
I tested Edge on Mac on a VMware virtual machine a couple of months ago, the update experience wasn't as smooth as Windows version, but now with this change, everything works as expected.- Olivia_ZhangGlad to hear! Thank you for the feedback
Olivia_Zhang Is there any new update experience for Windows?
- Olivia_ZhangWindows experience will stay unchanged for the moment. Do let us know if you have any suggestions / feedback, thank you!
- 您好，请问将在哪个版本中把这个更新的策略更新到stable版本中呢？
Thank you for sharing this exciting news Olivia_Zhang .
I'm wondering if this has been rolled out to stable release, now I'm running Version 91.0.864.37 (Official build) (x86_64), and has manually removed MAU from my laptop. When I open edge://settings/help, it's stuck in Checking for updates, even for days.chenrylee, unfortunately, it's only available on the dev channel for now. Both stable & beta still relies on MAU, so you might want to reinstall the MAU to fix the Check for updates looping.
Thank you chungweileong
If so, I'd like to install the dev version. Before new installation, I have a few concerns:
1. Does the installer of latest dev contain MAU?
2. If yes, does it work normally if I manually remove MAU?
Thank you in advance.
- When you restart the browser when an update is available, your browser will now instantly relaunch with the updated version rather than wait for update to be applied.
The problem with this (I'm on 92.0.902.73) is that it also occurs when you QUIT the application. So, when you no longer want to use Edge and you quit it, you're made to wait for an update to process and for the browser to restart only for you to have to quit it again. If I wanted to wait around for software updates I'd use a Windows machine. Will this release resolve the issue I've described?
Hmm... is there an update on this? Running 97.0.1072.34 (Official build) Beta (arm64) I don't see msMicrosoftEdgeTestMacUpdate under edge://version/?show-variations-cmd, and it appears Microsoft AutoUpdate wants to handle updates for Edge Beta (it lists both Edge Beta and Edge that I have installed.)
I hope Microsoft still plans to move forward with this, or to bring the silent/non-intrusive update behaviors to Microsoft AutoUpdate itself. I've had to manually quit Edge 96, and wait out the Microsoft AutoUpdate dialog as it downloads/installs, 3 times this week, I think - a bit ridiculous.
