When Microsoft announced it was switching the foundations of its home-grown Edge browser to a Chromium base we asked if it might allow the app to come to Linux.
And now have an answer (of sorts): “maybe”.
The first (Windows-only for now) development build of Chromium-powered Edge was made available to download this week. A version for macOS is said to be coming ‘very soon’.
But what about Linux?
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