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How long until I can download and run Edge on Chrome OS? Also why not just replace it with Android like "Andromeda" was supposed to do? Chrome OS already suppo

How long until I can download and run Edge on Chrome OS? Also why not just replace it with Android like "Andromeda" was supposed to do? Chrome OS already supports android, Chrome is already and android app, why not combine efforts?!

notimetorelax 3y ago
I wouldn’t want an Android version of Chrome as the main browser for a laptop OS.
kramerger 3y ago
Serious question: why would anyone want to run Edge? Most people in tech use Edge exactly once: to download another browser. Firefox I can understand, but Edge?
- prmoustache 3y ago
  I use edge for MS Teams, office 365 and anything that use microsoft ssO on my linux works computer. I don't want to taint my firefox profile/experience with microsoft stuff, and I figured the microsoft stuff will be better tested on edge than anything else, especially teams videocalls. Since my company mandate the use of microsoft stuff I decided to put everything behind Azure SSO with Edge for linux and keep everything else on firefox. The only thing I use behind Azure SSO that is not on edge is AWS because I take advantage of the multi containers extension to run several profiles in parallel. But for that I use another browser, librewolf.
- kryptiskt 3y ago
  I use Edge sometimes, I like the tabs on the side and the PDF reader supports annotating the PDFs with text and drawing which is a great feature and keeps me using it for reading. Otherwise it's a Chromium browser, so it's not a hardship to use it. Too bad they removed the EPUB reader functionality when going Chromium.
  - qingcharles 3y ago
    The PDF reader is also the reason I use it. Switch it to cover mode and span the pages. It's better than Chrome's reader, IMO.
keyboard_slap 3y ago
You can already download and run Edge on Chrome OS; it's as simple as `apt install microsoft-edge-stable`. All devices made since 2019 should feature support for a Linux VM (Termina) that runs a Debian container by default. I've been using it to run Edge since Microsoft released their Linux version back in 2021. It's inefficient and still suffers from UI bugs but it gets the job done.

notimetorelax 3y ago

I wouldn’t want an Android version of Chrome as the main browser for a laptop OS.

kramerger 3y ago

Serious question: why would anyone want to run Edge? Most people in tech use Edge exactly once: to download another browser. Firefox I can understand, but Edge?

prmoustache 3y ago
I use edge for MS Teams, office 365 and anything that use microsoft ssO on my linux works computer. I don't want to taint my firefox profile/experience with microsoft stuff, and I figured the microsoft stuff will be better tested on edge than anything else, especially teams videocalls. Since my company mandate the use of microsoft stuff I decided to put everything behind Azure SSO with Edge for linux and keep everything else on firefox. The only thing I use behind Azure SSO that is not on edge is AWS because I take advantage of the multi containers extension to run several profiles in parallel. But for that I use another browser, librewolf.
kryptiskt 3y ago
I use Edge sometimes, I like the tabs on the side and the PDF reader supports annotating the PDFs with text and drawing which is a great feature and keeps me using it for reading. Otherwise it's a Chromium browser, so it's not a hardship to use it. Too bad they removed the EPUB reader functionality when going Chromium.
- qingcharles 3y ago
  The PDF reader is also the reason I use it. Switch it to cover mode and span the pages. It's better than Chrome's reader, IMO.

keyboard_slap 3y ago

You can already download and run Edge on Chrome OS; it's as simple as `apt install microsoft-edge-stable`. All devices made since 2019 should feature support for a Linux VM (Termina) that runs a Debian container by default. I've been using it to run Edge since Microsoft released their Linux version back in 2021. It's inefficient and still suffers from UI bugs but it gets the job done.