Jody Thornton Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 I decided to create a new thread for those wanting to test the portable "Blink" version of Microsoft Edge. New portable builds of the Canary channel are being issued on the Upload.EE site, and I'm fetching those as they become available. N-Sane Forums are supplying the update links: https://www.nsaneforums.com/topic/341437-microsoft-edge-canary-channel-updates/ And here are the three latest releases: https://www.upload.ee/files/9839860/MSEdgePortable_75.0.132.0.paf.exe.html https://www.upload.ee/files/9844163/MSEdgePortable_75.0.133.0.paf.exe.html https://www.upload.ee/files/9872797/MSEdgePortable_75.0.140.0.paf.exe.html ***** A major credit goes to user @jeff69dini for getting this going. ***** 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff69dini Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 thanks, I was going to do the same but you beat me to it, lol.... yup running very stable, gives new life to good ole 8 eh? :P 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jody Thornton Posted April 29, 2019 Author Share Posted April 29, 2019 Certainly does. And this way, the portable version gives me a clean way to install Edge. I just extract the program folder in to Program Files and run it manually. It creates a large \users\local folder, but that's it. Easy to remove whenever I want. If anyone comes up with a way to move tabs below the address bar, please let me know. This may be a real possibility should Firefox ESR v68 not be to my liking. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jody Thornton Posted May 1, 2019 Author Share Posted May 1, 2019 On 4/28/2019 at 7:24 PM, jeff69dini said: thanks, I was going to do the same but you beat me to it, lol.... yup running very stable, gives new life to good ole 8 eh? Appears you saw me over at the MDL forum ...lol. Good to see you 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jody Thornton Posted May 1, 2019 Author Share Posted May 1, 2019 OK so in terms of getting the most out of Chromium-Edge, I need to find some resources. I tried Googling for information but it seems difficult to find. So it appears I need to find some better Edge-related resources. So here's what I need to find: How can I set cache to use RAM only? How can I delay page-loading until the whole page has been downloaded? (akin to the nglayout.initialpaintdelay setting in Gecko) How can I set to tabs below the address bar? There are other things I'll want to attend to, but these are the most immediate changes I want to make. If any one has any leads, chime in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UCyborg Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 I figured it reads group policy settings from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge, while Chrome reads them from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome. I haven't found policy definition files for Edge specifically, they might be released in the future, but I can confirm the registry settings for forcing/denying Incognito/InPrivate Mode and the ones for allowing/blocking Flash Player on certain sites do work. On 5/1/2019 at 7:42 PM, Jody Thornton said: How can I set cache to use RAM only? How can I delay page-loading until the whole page has been downloaded? (akin to the nglayout.initialpaintdelay setting in Gecko) I'm not aware of any ability to tweak such parameters, AFAIK there's only the stuff that you can turn on or off on edge://flags page. On 5/1/2019 at 7:42 PM, Jody Thornton said: How can I set to tabs below the address bar? This would probably require the UI to be implemented differently than it is in order to have the ability to change that. It's possible in Vivaldi with CSS tweaks. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jody Thornton Posted May 10, 2019 Author Share Posted May 10, 2019 (edited) The Newest Portable Build courtesy of nSane forums. It's version 76.0.154.0 MS Edge Portable (x64) v76.0.154.0 (open with 7-Zip) Edited May 10, 2019 by Jody Thornton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jody Thornton Posted May 11, 2019 Author Share Posted May 11, 2019 (edited) Today, a new portable build for v76.0.155.0 https://www.upload.ee/files/9946278/MSEdgePortable_76.0.155.0.paf.exe.html Edited May 11, 2019 by Jody Thornton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jody Thornton Posted May 13, 2019 Author Share Posted May 13, 2019 On 5/3/2019 at 9:49 AM, UCyborg said: I figured it reads group policy settings from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge, while Chrome reads them from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome. I haven't found policy definition files for Edge specifically, they might be released in the future, but I can confirm the registry settings for forcing/denying Incognito/InPrivate Mode and the ones for allowing/blocking Flash Player on certain sites do work. I'm not aware of any ability to tweak such parameters, AFAIK there's only the stuff that you can turn on or off on edge://flags page. This would probably require the UI to be implemented differently than it is in order to have the ability to change that. It's possible in Vivaldi with CSS tweaks. Yeppers. I looked through the flags page, and nothing there. You are supposedly able to disable cache completely either using startup parameters in the command, or by using Developer Tools, but it still seems to cache. Seems it's still Firefox for the win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jody Thornton Posted May 14, 2019 Author Share Posted May 14, 2019 (edited) Guess what daddy brought home? A new portable Canary build. https://www.upload.ee/files/9960202/MSEdgePortable_76.0.158.0.paf.exe.html https://www.upload.ee/files/9964559/MSEdgePortable_76.0.159.0_Canary.paf.exe.htm Edited May 15, 2019 by Jody Thornton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jody Thornton Posted May 18, 2019 Author Share Posted May 18, 2019 New Canary Build for this weekend! https://www.upload.ee/files/9978194/MSEdgePortable_76.0.162.0_Canary.paf.exe.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UCyborg Posted June 2, 2019 Share Posted June 2, 2019 Back when I wrote my last post here, policy setting for InPrivate mode was still called IncognitoModeAvailability. Now it's called InPrivateModeAvailability. There's also -inprivate command line parameter that is accepted by msedge.exe, equivalent to Chromium's -incognito. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jody Thornton Posted June 7, 2019 Author Share Posted June 7, 2019 All has been quiet on the nSane forums (regarding Edge Canary Portable) since I last posted. I fear that I'm losing interest, especially now the rumour is that Google Chrome will use Manifest v3 to restrict the effectiveness of Ad-Blocking software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathwiz Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 I remember that issue being discussed in the XP browser thread circa January. Maybe now's a good time to grab the latest reasonably stable build of Edge, before Google ruins it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jody Thornton Posted June 18, 2019 Author Share Posted June 18, 2019 I am using Edge on Android. On that platform, I really like it, but on the desktop, I want more customization. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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