There's a lot of excitement and potential surrounding the new Chromium version of Microsoft Edge heading to Xbox soon, and it looks like it's gearing up for a public release, as it's just been dished out to more Xbox Insiders.
It was previously only available for members in the Alpha Skip-Ahead ring, but as of the last couple of days, it's not only been rolled out to Alpha members, but also Beta and Delta members. Only the Omega rings have yet to receive it.
The reason for the excitement about this browser is that it opens up a whole bunch of extra opportunities, such as full keyboard and mouse support, along with the ability to stream Xbox games (and the likes of Stadia) via the cloud.
Xbox engineering lead Eden Marie told a fan back in May that it would be "a couple of months at least" before the browser was made available to everyone, so hopefully its full release is now just around the corner.
Have you had a chance to try the new Xbox internet browser yet? Let us know down in the comments.
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Great, I am looking forward to this.
Curious to see how it runs XCloud on the fatboy XB1, I will have to get it hooked up.
Looks cool =) be interesting to try stadia out on it
Beta and Delta got the browser at the same time. Looks like it'll be ready for everyone before Flight Sim launches which makes sense given that's the first 1st party title that isn't natively releasing on XB1.
I'm assuming it'll be keyboard and mouse compatible?
@Grumblevolcano Good to know about Delta, thanks!
@wazza99999 Says that in the article buddy.
Now add the ability to stream GamePass PC games and I’d be set. Seems doable if they just had PC blades running the games that are PC only. And while we’re at it, how about a Steam Link app?
@TownYsend Ha! That'll teach me for skipping straight to the comments....cheers 🙂
Firefox, please.
@notleks_ why would Microsoft do that with their own browser which is more feature rich than Mozilla's out of the box
I'm in Beta, and I'm now typing this comment on an xbox series with keyboard and mouse, It's awesome, turns your Xbox into a chromebook basically, I recently was lucky enough to aquire an series x, so one of my sons, who wanted to assemble a game-pc because he also needs a device to do some online homework, will be using the series s with mouse and keyboard.
This will do until the dgpu's come down in price.... still ridiculous what you have to pay for a decent Nvidia or AMD card. Great value what we got for the xbox series!
@ultraviolet Both are near enough the same, just Firefox are more heavily privacy focused. I only ask seeing as Edge is based off Chromium, so there’s no reason they couldn’t allow Mozilla to get their own browser on the Xbox store.
@notleks_ most of the privacy tools in Firefox are also in Edge. But I understand where your coming from
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