[FEAT]: Add support for other Edge channels

[SaptarshiSarkar12]

Overview of the problem

Currently, EUS only supports for Beta channels of Edge. There are a vast number of peoples who use only the Stable versions. Some also use Dev and Canary builds.

Solution proposed

We can add support for all the Edge channels by ensuring the following changes:

• Centralising the URL for Edge deb packages and changing from https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge/pool/main/m/microsoft-edge-beta to the required links based on the available edge packages.
• Auto-detect the installed Edge channel
• Check updates for multiple Edge browsers if available.

Note

If you want to work on this issue, please comment down below. You can also suggest your approach to the problem. The above is just an ideal approach to follow.

[abhisheks-gh]

Hi @SaptarshiSarkar12,

I’d like to work on this issue.
I have one question: If the program fails to fetch the channel, which one should we use as the default?

• For general users, we should default to Stable.
• For developers or testers, we should default to Beta.

Let me know your thoughts, and I can proceed accordingly.

[SaptarshiSarkar12]

Hi Abhishek (@abhisheks-gh) 👋!
Great meeting you after a long time 😄.
Thank you for your interest in the issue.

I have one question: If the program fails to fetch the channel, which one should we use as the default?

• For general users, we should default to Stable.
• For developers or testers, we should default to Beta.
  Let me know your thoughts, and I can proceed accordingly.

For every Edge channels be it insiders or stable, we always have a default microsoft edge (microsoft-edge) executable available. When we pass version flag, we can get its channel (probably prints only if user is in insiders channel) at the end of the version string. See the below image:

If we can't find that executable, we can either report error: "Microsoft Edge is not installed. Please install it first!" or we can check existence of common edge executable names (applicable only for insiders channels) like microsoft-edge-beta, etc., as a fallback option. We may add the fallback check as a second check before reporting error.
Let me know what you would prefer.

[abhisheks-gh]

Pleasure meeting you too, @SaptarshiSarkar12!

That sounds good. We can check for the common insider Edge executable names as a fallback option before reporting any issues. I think this approach will work well.

Thanks for your input!

[SaptarshiSarkar12]

That sounds good. We can check for the common insider Edge executable names as a fallback option before reporting any issues. I think this approach will work well.

Yeah, I agree.

Thanks for your input!

Most welcome 😄.

[SaptarshiSarkar12]

@abhisheks-gh How far did you progress? Did you face any problems?