Earlier this week, Microsoft announced the general availability (along with a new icon) of its Edge browser-based on Chromium. The browser was first made available to download back in April for Insiders, but in January it will launch to the public. We now have a few more details about what that version will include, or rather, not included.
Despite Microsoft launching the ARM-powered Surface Pro X just this week, Chromium Edge will not support ARM64 at launch. The reason for this is a blocking bug that is exclusive to the ARM architecture. Microsoft still does plan to offer Chromium Edge for ARM in the future.
A bigger deal for some users is the lack of history and extension syncing. Edge CVP Chuck Friedman spoke to Neowin about these features not being present, and basically it came down to not being important enough. ARM64 support, history sync, and extension sync may be available in the Dev and Canary versions, but they won’t be in the stable version that launches in January. Password syncing, which is used by many users, will be present.
When January 15th rolls around, you will see Chromium Edge show up on your Windows PC. The app will be updated through Windows Update and it will be installed over the old Microsoft Edge browser. Have you tried out Chromium Edge yet?
Source: Neowin
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