Microsoft Edge Mobile Browser Gets Extension Support – Chrome Doesn’t

Google Chrome is the world’s most popular browser for both desktop and mobile devices. However, one of the drawbacks of its Android version is the lack of extension support. However, this functionality has now appeared in the mobile Microsoft Edge.

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Microsoft has launched its own extension store for the Edge browser on Android. The stable version of mobile Edge (v134.0.3124.57) already supports more than 20 extensions, and their range is expected to expand, Android Authority reports. Microsoft has been experimenting with plugins for the mobile browser since early 2024 – previously, they were installed mainly in preview builds of Canary. To do this, it was necessary to enable the corresponding hidden setting, while the stable version of Edge for Android supported only three add-ons.

There are currently 22 add-ons available in the new Edge mobile extension store. These include Dark Reader for night-mode browsing, Bitwarden for password management, Keepa for tracking Amazon prices, NordVPN and Browsec for secure browsing, AIX Downloader for downloading media files, and Collabwriting for collaborative note-taking. To access them, you need to update Edge to the latest stable version and go to the extension store via the browser menu, and they install with the click of a button.

Browser plugins are published in the Microsoft store, which gives grounds to consider them safe. The page with extensions has the mark “Beta”, which means that Microsoft is still finalizing the platform and eliminating the identified problems. There have been no official announcements about Google’s intention to implement support for extensions for mobile Chrome.