Using Microsoft Edge web browser

Q&A
1

Would anybody know how I can use the latest stable version of Microsoft edge instead of Firefox? Keep it simple please. I’m not a programmer :slightly_smiling_face:

2

there is no simple solution. edge is not in the swupd repo and never will be, considering it’s proprietary nature.
(which i am very thankful for. i have very bad PTSD when it comes to edge, back from the days when i still used windows.

however, the rpm is available for download.

3

Thanks. How do I install it using the rpm?

4

https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?linkid=2149137

I have previously said that only the insider channels are available. That is incorrect.

5

Btw, edge is based on chrome, you can install chromium with flatpak.

6

Vivaldi and Brave are both built on the Chromium web core.

7

This is current with my system… Clear Linux Version: 37720

  1. I downloaded Edge Dev via → https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/download

  2. Imported the keyring → rpm --import https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc

  3. Added this to the DNF repo ( Not sure if this actually is useful or not but none the less ) —> dnf config-manager --add-repo Index of /yumrepos/edge/

  4. cd Downloads folder and install —> rpm -U --nodeps microsoft*.rpm

  5. Run from command prompt – > microsoft-edge-dev
    ( if running as root — > microsoft-edge-dev --no-sandbox )