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Anyone know why you need to run an installer (with admin access)? Chrome is a plain-old .app which you can drag from a disk image... Is Edge installing shared
by favorited 7y ago
Anyone know why you need to run an installer (with admin access)? Chrome is a plain-old .app which you can drag from a disk image... Is Edge installing shared frameworks or something?
Quick edit: extracting the contents of the installer, it looks like maybe it wants to install the Office auto updater at the same time...
- _dev 7y agoIt runs a bunch of pre and postinstall scripts, which seem to mainly be sending install telemetry to Microsoft: https://imgur.com/LbCd89v https://imgur.com/LbCd89v There's a `send_event` binary in the package which appears to post data to https://self.events.data.microsoft.com/OneCollector/1.0/ https://self.events.data.microsoft.com/OneCollector/1.0/
- favorited 7y agoWell, now they have telemetry of me launching the installer, realizing that they don't give any context about what is being installed, and closing it...
- WorldMaker 7y agoMicrosoft demoed the ability to install PWAs from Edge on macOS at BUILD, so maybe the installer is partly to prepare to support that?
- fnordsensei 7y agoI get that Dropbox needs an installer (it integrates with Finder etc). For a web browser, it seems a bit gratuitous. I'm holding off for now.