Open ericswpark opened 6 months ago
sekoku
commented
6 months ago I think the problem is that winget itself doesn't has the update in the "repo" for it. You can look with winget list and it won't find anything. If there's an available update, it'll show it on the second column of the version listings where winget update will update it.
It's up to the developer and/or MS to have winget be able to see the update, it seems.
akienm
commented
6 months ago I noticed some additional odd behavior with winget, while Edge will load normally, and do most normal browsing OK... but anything else wouldn't work. I'm having to completely rebuild my computer because an SSD failure, and used Edge to go to MS's web site to get office, but I'd click on Login and it'd spin and spin and then stop. No login form, not even any page change. So I went to extensions to see if I could see any extensions I wasn't aware of that might be the issue... But the extensions page for Edge was just blank. Wouldn't load anything. Used winget to remove MSEdgeRedirect, and now everything is working as expected.
The extensions page in Edge not working really surprised me.
e-t-l
commented
5 months ago Winget doesn't really "install" msedgeredirect, does it? For me it just created a folder and downloaded the program executable. Seems like most other programs installed with winget will actually run the installer after downloading it. Is there any way to make this app do that as well?
rcmaehl
commented
4 months ago Winget doesn't really "install" msedgeredirect, does it? For me it just created a folder and downloaded the program executable. Seems like most other programs installed with winget will actually run the installer after downloading it. Is there any way to make this app do that as well?
It should install to C:\Program FIles\, I'm guessing it did not?
scottj
commented
1 month ago It should install to C:\Program FIles, I'm guessing it did not?
The winget package installed the files in %LOCALAPPDATA%\MSEdgeRedirect for me.
Preflight Checklist
microsoft-edge:https://google.comredirects successfullyInstall Type
New Install
Install Mode
N/A or Unsure
Steps to reproduce
✔️ Expected Behavior
The redirect works
❌ Actual Behavior
M$ Edge opens
Microsoft Windows version
23H2 (OS Build 22631.2861)
Other Software
No response
Other
I noticed all of the active options are greyed out:
Probably because winget doesn't install with administrative privileges, however I don't know how to ask winget to run the installer as admin. Maybe it could be added to the README?