Microsoft Edge is missing in macOS-14-arm64

[mxschmitt]

Description

Microsoft Edge should be installed as per here. But it seems missing since a recent macOS-14 update.

Downstream issue: microsoft/playwright-dotnet#2920

From our user:

This behaviour appears to have emerged for my repositories in the last ~16 hours with the macos-latest runner images moving from macOS 12 to macOS 14.

Platforms affected

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions - Standard Runners
• GitHub Actions - Larger Runners

Runner images affected

• Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 22.04
• macOS 11
• macOS 12
• macOS 13
• macOS 13 Arm64
• macOS 14
• macOS 14 Arm64
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022

Image version and build link

Image: macos-14-arm64
Version: 20240415.6

Is it regression?

yes

Expected behavior

It's installed.

Actual behavior

It's not installed.

Repro steps

name: test
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
jobs:
  test:
    name: test
    strategy:
      matrix:
        runs-on: [macos-12, macos-13, macos-14]
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.runs-on }}
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
    - run: ls -la "/Applications/Microsoft Edge.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Edge"

Expected: Edge installed across the macOS versions.
Actual: It's not available on macOS 14.

[Alexey-Ayupov]

Hello @mxschmitt, the Microsoft Edge was newer installed in macOS 14 Arm64 image. We will check the possibility to install it.

[mxschmitt]

I see, so this is because macos-latest changed to macos-14-arm64 recently. Thanks for verifying that!

(Playwright users have a workaround for now from our side to install it manually via the CLI - so not blocking)

[martincostello]

As a user, I was using macos-latest and the change from v12 to v14 broke me, so would definitely be useful to install as I'm sure others will find the same problem suddenly occurring as the rollout continues.

[leighmcculloch]

this is because macos-latest changed to macos-14-arm64 recently

This seems like a bug because the GitHub Actions Docs still say macos-latest maps to macos-14. Also, requesting macos-14 explicitly is causing macos-14-arm64 images to be used. Opened an issue here about that:

• Builds requesting runs-on macos-14 and getting macos-14-arm64 runner#3256

[mikhailkoliada]

Transferring to discussion right now, as we are unlikely to install it on m1 runners

1. cask is not available in homebrew
2. to get a downloading link you have to accept EULA (or EULA-like) manually, I doubt that distribution without direct acceptance by the end customer is possible here.

I'll reach out to legal and see what we can do here.

[joeyparrish]

You mean this cask?

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/m/microsoft-edge.rb

It appears to have download links for both Arm and Intel, and I've installed it in my workflow for both macos-latest and macos-13.

[lread]

For what it's worth, here's me trying out installing Edge (thanks, @joeyparrish, for the tip!) and msedgedriver on the new macos arm64 runner: https://github.com/lread/gh-actions-macos-play/blob/main/.github/workflows/edgetest.yml
It's just me playing around, but I did not have issues.
Aside: Firefox & geckodriver are also missing?

[joeyparrish]

Yup. Homebrew has a cask for Firefox, too.

There's a million ways to install the webdrivers, but my projects are heavily invested in nodejs infrastructure, and we use https://www.npmjs.com/package/webdriver-installer . (I am also the original author and maintainer of that project, so maybe I'm biased.)

[lread]

Thanks @joeyparrish, that looks very useful!