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Re:Lacros on Chromebooks transition plan won’t be quick by andromeduck on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @01:48AM (#37044983)
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?!

Re:Lacros on Chromebooks transition plan won’t be quick by notimetorelax on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @01:55AM (#37045029)
I wouldn’t want an Android version of Chrome as the main browser for a laptop OS.
Re:Lacros on Chromebooks transition plan won’t be quick by kramerger on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @05:39AM (#37046567)
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?

Re:Lacros on Chromebooks transition plan won’t be quick by prmoustache on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @06:48AM (#37047055)
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.

Re:Lacros on Chromebooks transition plan won’t be quick by kryptiskt on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @07:43AM (#37047482)
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.
Re:Lacros on Chromebooks transition plan won’t be quick by qingcharles on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @09:07PM (#37057560)
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.
Re:Lacros on Chromebooks transition plan won’t be quick by keyboard_slap on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @01:47AM (#37059108)
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.