Last week, Microsoft announced the first set of browser extensions for Microsoft Edge. They’re now available via the Windows Insider Program.
The initial extensions include: Microsoft Translator, Mouse Gestures, and Reddit Enhancement Suite.
Microsoft’s Jacob Rossi took to Twitter (via Windows Central) to say that the company is working on a tool to port Chrome extensions to Edge, so that should open users of Microsoft’s browser up to many more options.
Lots of questions on this: yes we're working on a porting tool to run Chrome extensions in Edge. Not yet finished and not all APIs supported
— Jacob Rossi (@jacobrossi) March 18, 2016
@jacobrossi extn's in Store will at first be a carefully selected set covering top scenarios and API coverage, opening up to more in future
— Jacob Rossi (@jacobrossi) March 18, 2016
Microsoft’s own preview extensions are available with build 14291, just released to the Fast ring. To add an extension, download it, select Run from the download notification, select More and then Extensions, and select Load extension. Then, choose the extension folder, and select Select folder.
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