The time is here! A stable version of Microsoft’s Edge web browser is now available for Linux. There have been beta and developer versions for some time, but the stable release was recently spotted in the yum repository hosted by Microsoft. If you want to try it out, you can download the rpm package in Fedora or use the command line to upgrade to Ubuntu.

The stable version is not yet an option on the official page, but there are other ways to get the package.

Fedora Downloads: http://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/edge/ Ubuntu Downloads:

curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > microsoft.gpg
sudo install -o root -g root -m 644 microsoft.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-edge-dev.list'
sudo rm microsoft.gpg
sudo apt update && sudo apt install microsoft-edge-stable

Benchmarking

Fedora 35 .rpm packages Firefox 93.0 Chromium 94.0.4606.81 Microsoft Edge 95.0.1020.40 GNOME Web 41.0 Brave 1.31.88 Vivaldi 4.3

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Javascript Testing Kraken JavaScript Benchmark (time, lower is better) Firefox: 959.3ms ±1.2% Chromium: 699.0ms ±0.6% GNOME Web: 633.0ms ±0.7% Vivaldi: 696.6ms ±0.5% Brave: 699.9ms ±0.8% Edge: 692.6ms ±0.6%

JetStream 2 (score, higher is better) Firefox: 86.848 Chromium: 145.737 GNOME Web: 152.809 Vivaldi: 146.212 Brave: 147.310 Edge: 149.908

ARES-6 (time, lower is better) Firefox: 45.05ms ±1.45 Chromium: 20.73 ±0.92ms GNOME Web: 18.02 ±1.42ms Vivaldi: 20.86 ±1.18ms Brave: 20.91 ±1.03ms Edge: 20.62 ±0.82ms

Graphics Testing MotionMark (score, higher is better) Firefox: 605.66 ±3.77% Chromium: 609.23 ±11.19% GNOME Web: 365.45 ±4.88% Vivaldi: 727.09 ±7.52% Brave: 628.79 ±17.35% Edge: 780.51 ±12.10%

Graphics Winner: Microsoft Edge

Responsiveness Testing Speedometer (runs/min, higher is better) Firefox: 132 ±2.3 Chromium: 132 ±3.3 GNOME Web: 127 ±2.0 Vivaldi: 136 ±1.6 Brave: 137 ±3.8 Edge: 139 ±2.5

Responsiveness Winner: Microsoft Edge

Generalized Testing WebXPRT 3 (score, higher is better) Firefox: 213 Chromium: 179 GNOME Web: 222 Vivaldi: 228 Brave: 214 Edge: 230

Generalized Winner: Microsoft Edge

Overall Winner: Microsoft Edge

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