Edge on Linux
Will Edge find space in the saturated Linux web browser market, just because Mayank Sharma thinks Microsoft has done a good job with the release?
IN BRIEF
Edge is Microsoft’s web browser that’s now available for Linux users. The browser no longer has Microsoft’s in-house HTML and JavaScript engines at its core, and since 2020 is based on the Googlesupported open source Chromium project, which also powers other open source and proprietary browsers such as Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, and Google’s own Chrome.
M icrosoft has released the Stable version of its flagship Edge web browser for Linux, as it continues to embrace the Linux desktop. The Redmondbased champion of proprietary software has been testing Edge for Linux through the Dev Channel since October 2020, and the Beta Channel since May 2021, before deeming it worthy for the move up to the Stable channel.