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Add Edge Mobile to the browsers list #5492

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nzav opened this issue Jun 24, 2020 · 4 comments
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Add Edge Mobile to the browsers list #5492

nzav opened this issue Jun 24, 2020 · 4 comments

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nzav commented Jun 24, 2020

Edge Mobile is getting traction. Can it be added to the database?

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atjn commented Jun 27, 2020

Related: #5473

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nzav commented Jun 27, 2020

There's also this Microsoft article that describes the UA identifiers:

iOS: EdgiOS/41.1.35.1
Android: EdgA/41.1.35.1

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atjn commented Mar 15, 2021

Just to add a bit of context to this discussion:

It usually doesn't make sense to add yet another Chromium-based browser to Caniuse since they're all pretty much identical, but Microsoft Edge might be worthy because we have seen Microsoft add features to desktop Edge before they were available in Chromium. Another, slightly contradicting, point is that Edge for Android has not been updated in over a year, which means it could be useful for developers to know that they have a percentage of users running behind on the latest features.

With all that said, I estimate that Edge for Android currently accounts for 0.4 - 0.1% of web traffic (based on StatCounter and Google Play downloads). That is on-par with many other browsers like Brave and DuckDuckGo browser, and it is very low considering how much work would be required to add and maintain it on Caniuse.
This number could change, but I don't expect it to. Edge was only a success on desktop because Microsoft pushed it very aggressively.

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Really keen to get this added
Currently seems to get lumped in as Edge.
Current Edge (edge-chromium) on desktop is 90.
Current Edge Chromium on Android is 46.

This REALLY throws the version checking out in my browserslist file. Need another browser defined - and_edge?
This would seem to follow the pattern for chrome, although the windows and android version both seem to be on v90 at present.

Edge mobile is gaining traction as the new Edge (Chromium) browser rolls out more aggressively on windows desktops (much better pickup than the legacy Edge. This will translate more to edge browser on mobile as users want same favourites list, etc.
Wondering does the current classification for Android Edge Chromium get lumped into Android Chrome or Edge at present.
I dont see the current Android Edge version listed in Edge versions.

The browsers have a lot of overlapping features but tend to adopt new ones at a very different rate.
Either way want the browser detected against the best match and current version I think just falls in to a hole.

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