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Microsoft Edge for Linux is now a thing, so in this post we show you how to install the browser on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and any related Linux distributions.

In guide we show you how to install Microsoft Edge on Ubuntu (or any Ubuntu-based Linux distribution, like Linux Mint) in two ways: graphical (GUI) method, and command line (CLI) method.

It doesn’t matter which method you choose as you will download and install the exact same version of Microsoft’s new-fangled browser. Plus, both methods set things up so that you get future updates as and when they’re released, automatically.

Microsoft Edge is based on Chromium, the open-source browser engine developed (though not exclusively) by Google. Any website, web app, or web service that works in any Chromium-based browser, such as Google Chrome, will work in Edge too.

Installing Microsoft Edge on Linux. There are two ways to get started with Microsoft Edge on Linux. The simplest approach is to download and install a.deb or.rpm package directly from the Microsoft Edge Insider site – this will configure your system to receive future automatic updates. Long gone days where Microsoft products are not open-source and architected only for Windows.In their efforts to make a strong footprint in the Linux market, Microsoft has announced on “Microsoft Ignite 2020” Edge browser is available for Linux as a dev preview.

Even better: you can install Chrome extensions in Edge too (though Microsoft maintains its own extension hub for browser add-ons).

Read our hands on with Edge for Linux development builds for a broader overview on what works, what doesn’t, and what you should keep in mind if you plan to use it otherwise.

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Keep in mind that Microsoft Edge for Linux is in developer preview. It is not “stable”. It is not even a beta. Some features (like browser sync) are currently unsupported on Linux. Are there bugs? Yup. Will it crash? Quite possibly!

Please note: this article is about how to install Edge on Ubuntu, not why you should install it. You decide which software you use on your system. And if you don’t want Edge? That’s fine! But you probably won’t be reading a “how to” guide on the topic!

Graphical/GUI way

Installing Edge using a graphical user interface is easy as Microsoft provide official installer packages for Ubuntu and Fedora-based distros. You can use these builds to install the browser on your system using your distribution’s package manager.

1.Go to Microsoft Edge Download Page

In a web browser open the official Microsoft Edge download page. There you’ll find two builds for Linux. Chose the ‘Linux (.deb)’ option for Ubuntu.

2. Download Edge for Linux

Choose to save the .deb package to your Downloads folder (or any other. directory you can access easily). If you’re using Firefox you can check the “Save File” option to do this.

3. Double click on the installer

Let the download complete then use your file manager to find the Edge Linux installer. Finally, double-click on the saved file to start installing and follow the on-screen prompts.

When you install using the official installer the Microsoft Edge repository is added to your system’s list of software sources. You can upgrade to new versions of the browser as they’re released using the regular Software Updater tool.

4. Open Microsoft Edge.

Let the install finish up then open the browser from the Applications grid (or whatever app menu, launcher, etc you use on your system.

Terminal/CLI way

Prefer to install software from the command line? We got you covered. Just copy/paste the following commands in to your terminal emulator of choice.

First: the set-up script. This adds the Microsoft Edge repo to your system, and imports the Microsoft GPG key to authenticate packages (so that you can be sure they are what they say they are):

Second step: run this command to actually install Microsoft Edge:

Once done, launch the browser from your favourite app launcher, or run microsoft-edge-dev from a command prompt.

How to Uninstall Edge

So you installed Edge. Grand. And you try it out. Awesome. But what happens if you want to remove it? Well, it’s easy to uninstall Microsoft Edge using the command line.

Just open a new Terminal window and run:

Alternatively you can open the Ubuntu Software app, search for ‘edge’ by name, click the result, and hit the ‘remove’ button.

Simple!

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Summary

That’s it; you learned how to install Microsoft Edge browser on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and other distributions in this article. All that’s left for you to do now is to open the browser up and start surfing the web!

It remains to be seen if Edge will find a big enough audience on Linux to sustain itself. The browser is up against stiff competition from the likes of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Vivaldi.

While most Linux users will shudder at the thought of using it, I think it’s great to have the choice of using Edge on Linux.

Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge for Linux is getting sign-in and sync support for saving favourites, passwords, browser data and extensions across devices.

The sync feature is shipping in Edge 91.0.831.1 to the Dev channel, so it should ship in the Stable channel in a few weeks.

Microsoft notes that the feature is only supported for personal Microsoft Accounts at the moment, meaning Azure Active Directory (AAD) accounts are not supported yet.

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Additionally, users may need to enable a flag in order to see this setting. This can be done by typing 'edge://flags' in the address bar, and searching for and enabling the 'MSA sign in' experiment.

After signing into the profile dialog, users can select Sync to sync favouites, passwords, and other browsing data across devices used with that account. The profile dialog displays the sync status.

Microsoft warns that as a Dev channel build, the sync feature might come with a few glitches. But it has also listed a range of mitigation options for troubleshooting any problems, such as browser crashes.

Microsoft released Edge for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE Linux distributions in October, but it's still in a developer preview, which doesn't support AAD yet.

Another update for Edge on Linux is the ability to use the system theme.

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Microsoft notes that it's investigating an issue where some extensions, such as the Microsoft Editor extension, don't work on Linux. As soon as they're installed, they crash and are disabled, according to Microsoft.

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Microsoft has also released 14 new theme colours in Settings for users to personalise the interface. These can be found in the Theme section, along with the recently released set of Microsoft-developed themes, which include a few from Xbox such as Halo, Sea of Thieves and Microsoft Flight Simulator. Themes are unique to each profile to make it easier to distinguish between personal and work profiles.

Other updates in this build of Edge include an option in the right-click menu to open the current page in the Immersive Reader. There's also a new management policy to ensure that PDFs are opened in Secure Mode.

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