Security News > 2021 > October > Microsoft Edge finally arrives on Linux – “Official” build lands in repos
We've been using Edge on Linux for quite some time, first in Dev Build form, then in its Beta flavour.
As you probably know, Edge no longer has Microsoft's in-house HTML and JavaScript engines at its core, but is based, like many other contemporary browsers, on the Google-derived open source Chromium project.
We're happy to see Edge for Linux finally make Stable and Official status, because we find it handy to have two distinct browsers on any operating system platform we use.
This is where you can turn off Continue running background extensions and apps when Microsoft Edge is closed, which is enabled by default.
Five years ago, we'd have laughed if you'd suggested that by 2021 our Top Two "Workflow" apps on Linux would not only be from Microsoft but also be open source.
We wrote this article in the Visual Studio Code editor for Linux, and uploaded it into WordPress using the landed-two-hours-ago-in-Stable-form Microsoft Edge for Linux.