Finding out the version of Edge browser - microsoft-edge

If I go to settings of the Edge browser on my Windows 10 computer, it shows me the version of the Edge browser as follow:
Microsoft Edge 44.17763.831.0
Microsoft EdgeHTML 18.17763
What is now the version of my Edge browser? Is that 44 or 18?
And in either cases, why is this page showing that MS Edge has versions up to 80 ???
https://caniuse.com/#search=custom%20properties
Is my MS Edge version 36 respectively 62 versions behind?? :-)

Microsoft Edge 44.17763.831.0 is your MS Edge browser version.
Microsoft EdgeHTML 18.17763 is the version of EdgeHTML engine which is used by the MS Edge browser.
This is the MS Edge browser which by default comes with Windows 10 OS.
You said documentation page showing that MS Edge has versions up to 80.
Recently, Microsoft had launched MS Edge Browser based on the Chromium engine. Which is using these numbers as per Chromium engine.
You can download the new MS Edge Chromium browser from the link below. It is free to download and use and the user can install it on most of the Windows OS, Android OS, and MAC OS. It comes with many exciting, new and useful features.
Download MS Edge Chromium browser
You had asked, "Is my MS Edge version 36 respectively 62 versions behind?? :-)"
No, Both MS Edge (EdgeHTML) browser and MS Edge (Chromium) browser are two different browsers. You are using MS Edge (EdgeHTML) browser. I suggest you update your Windows OS to update your MS Edge EdgeHTML browser.

I believe the caniuse site is using build numbers not version numbers, there's a little more information here (but there's more information elsewhere I'd imagine) ...
https://venturebeat.com/2015/09/21/microsoft-details-edge-version-numbers-one-for-the-app-and-one-for-the-engine/

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Can an Office Add-in run without Edge/IE installed?

We have a client that wants to run our Excel Add-in (web-based Office Add-in written with office-js), however, they don't have Edge or IE installed.
They are running Version 2008 (Build 13127.21766) of Excel, which according to the documentation from Microsoft uses the EdgeHTML WebView (Edge Legacy)
I know with the WebView2 runtimes you can install the runtime separately since Windows 8.1 and 10 didn't come with that runtime.
Can the same process be followed for the EdgeHTML WebView (Edge Legacy), as in can we install an EdgeHTML WebView runtime while not having Edge installed?
If so can someone point me in the right direction on where to get this runtime from?
The only way to get the EdgeHTML webview installed is to install Edge.
Are you sure the client is on a Windows version? According to my knowledge, Excel 2008 which belongs to Office 2008 is only for Mac. You can refer to this doc and this page.
According to the doc you mentioned, they can use Safari for Office Add-ins on Mac.

Microsoft edge webView2 causes performance issue on citrix server

We have noticed that there is issue on the Citrix environment in regards to WebView2. We are trying to run office add-in inside the Outlook desktop (365) and as soon as Outlook tries to run the add-in we can see in the task manager that CPU and Memory usage spikes from 8 percent to 99 percent. Multiple instance of WebView2 processes running can be seen which consumes most of the processing power. The office add-in is not able to load at all. We have tried 2-3 office add-ins and we see the same behavior. There is no Microsoft edge installed on the Citrix .
Version
Runtime: 90.0.818.56
OS: win 10
Screenshots
Task Manager usage
Please let me know your thoughts on this.
This might be caused by hooks in Citrix which preventing the WebView2 component from starting. It can be fixed by adding the WebView2 process as an exception from all Citrix hooks. You can refer to this article to edit the registry to achieve this.
Reference link:
Webview2 application running in a Citrix environment
Is WebView2 supported in the Citrix Server

Will there be a Microsoft Edge (Chromium) 'webview' control for MacOS?

Microsoft Edge (Chromium) is in Beta on MacOS. Will there be a Microsoft Edge (Chromium) 'webview' control for MacOS? I suppose this is dependent on having support for .NET Core. Currently the support is limited to C++.
Is this same link, it says "In the future, we plan to support WebView2 on .NET.", I would assume this means .NET Core? Does anyone know what the plan is?
According to the comments in this Issue there is a plan to support Linux and MacOS, but probably only post 2021.
It is stated, that support for these platforms is on their Roadmap, though.
At present, we are not available with any information on whether there will a webview control for the MS Edge Chromium browser for MAC OS or not. We also don't have any information about it's future plan.
I suggest you wait for the official announcement from Microsoft about webview control for MAC OS.

Is there an api to monitor Microsoft Edge browser version and its release dates?

Is there an api to monitor Microsoft Edge browser version and its release dates?
more like https://omahaproxy.appspot.com/all.json
for google chrome.
Thanks in advance!
If anyone is looking for endpoint for finding current released version of Microsoft edge, you can get information from following,
Edge Latest Stable Version
For more information you can find answer on following
Microsoft Edge Latest Version Number

jQuery Mobile 1.4 and Microsoft Edge

I am working on RWD application which was developed using jQuery Mobile 1.3. We have decided to upgrade jQuery Mobile from version 1.3 to 1.4. Our concern is how well jQuery Mobile works in Microsoft Edge on Windows 10. The jQuery site does not mention anything about Microsoft Edge.
jQuery Mobile is developed around standards and common conventions, as is Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, and other browsers. You should not run into any serious issue when using any of these modern browsers.
There are currently 271 open issues on GitHub for jQuery Mobile. A cursory search didn't reveal anything serious with Microsoft Edge. If you do happen to run into issues, please file them on Github, and share them here so that we can help you identify temporary work-arounds.
Internet Explorer versions 8 through 11 received an A in jQuery Mobile's Graded Browser Support. Considering the fact that Microsoft Edge has received thousands of bug fixes more than Internet Explorer 11, I would say it's safe to assume you should have a wonderful experience using jQuery Mobile along with Microsoft Edge.

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