How to Download Leaked Microsoft Chromium Edge Browser for Mac
Updated 5/20/19 1:00 PM: Microsoft has released the first official version of its Chromium-based Edge browser for macOS, which you can find here – click on the Canary Channel drop-down menu to find it.
The new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge web browser has been available on Windows for several weeks, but unfortunately for Mac users, there is no way to install the new Edge browser on their OS. At least not in an official way.
If you don’t mind the moral gray area downloads and leaked software, the Canary and developer versions of Edge for Mac are now available for download thanks to Twitter user @ h0x0d.
The links point to legitimate files hosted directly by Microsoft – there is no risk of virus infection, although reliable antivirus and antivirus programs always work on your Mac (just in case). However, these canary and dev builds come with the same caveats as other early access or beta software: they are not intended for casual users, they are likely to have bugs and may not reflect which will appear in the public version. Edge, which Microsoft eventually releases.
Also, since Canary builds are updated on a daily basis, these specific links may be short-lived. It’s also possible that these links might be disabled if Microsoft decides it doesn’t want early versions of Edge to be distributed to Mac users, so download them quickly.
Once you’ve downloaded the files, install them like any other Mac program.
Since this version of Edge runs on Chromium, the same open source viewer that Google used to build Chrome, anyone familiar with Chrome or Chromium should find Edge’s interface pretty intuitive. The biggest difference between Edge and Chrome is that all Google-based features and services have been removed from Edge Chromium and replaced with new ones from Microsoft, which hopefully don’t track user data as actively as Chrome.
This new Edge update is still pretty new, so we can’t say yet how well it performs as a long-term replacement for Chrome, Firefox, and others. Given how popular alternatives to Google products are these days, creating a new browser that works similarly to Chrome but without the baggage of Google is a smart move from Microsoft.