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Add Extension Support for Android version of Edge browser
Hi HotCakeX, this is a great suggestion. I will make sure that the team that does our mobile browsers see it. Thanks - Elliot
Hi HotCakeX, this is a great suggestion. I will make sure that the team that does our mobile browsers see it. Thanks - Elliot
- Microsoft, I have to say this is rather pathetic given the state of Gdpr and everyone on mobile. You have known about this android lack of support for desktop extensions and yet you have done nothing about it. Every website I visit has an annoying popup that takes up most of the screen. If you cared about your user base on Edge you would get it done but here we are. Just to let you know I am now removing Edge from my mobile which I spend most of my time browsing on. This is what happens when you don't listen to the community. Your competitors have this available and guess what, that's where I am headed and it is entirely your fault for not bothering. You obviously don't use mobile or if you do I bet its not edge because it takes a special kind of person that will happily accept every website they visit produce an annoying popup when loading.
It has been a while. Any update on this?
For people reading this and wanting the same feature, submit feedback from the edge android app to Microsoft. You can do it though the menu (three dots).
Elliot Kirk any news on that? or at least a opportunity to vote for it. Thanks!
MichaelBodenmueller wrote:any news on that? or at least a opportunity to vote for it. Thanks!
There is no voting system (yet), best thing you can do now is to send this suggestion using the feedback button on Edge. more people send feedback requesting a feature means higher priority it will have.
- With my work account I regularly use uservoice (for all Microsoft products). Therefor I can't understand why Microsoft offer that possibility for the target groups Developers, Education and Business but not Privat:
https://microsoftedge.uservoice.com/
Sending this suggestion via feedback button within the Application can't be as efficient as using uservoice where your request can't be found by others users to support it.
It is really a shame that we talk about this in the Microsoft techcommunity without interaction with Microsoft officials 😕
Elliot Kirk any update about adding the extensions feature, please..
- This is the feature I need to switch from Chrome. The only reason I don't use other browsers that have it like Kiwi is because I need inline translation. Only Chrome and Edge do translation well. If Edge had extensions (ideally including Chrome extensions), it would have the... edge!
Once Chromium Edge comes to Linux, I'd then be in a position to switch on my laptop as well which is presumably what MS is trying to achieve in making Edge fully cross platform.For Inline translation, you can use Google translate app on Android which has an overlay or even tap to translate feature, works on all apps, not only on browsers.
https://support.google.com/translate/answer/6350658?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en
Elliot Kirk I've never seen this feedback/suggestion appeared on any feedback summary post.
I'm a bit worry about the team didn't take this serious.
For users with highly customization needs, add extension support for Android/IOS is most important.
Despite Firefox for Android can do that, Chromium is better at performance.If Edge based on chromium can satisfy users with performance, sync and extension for all major platform like Windows, MacOS and Android/IOS.
I think I will definitely choose Edge for my idiomatic browser.
Totally agree. I've never been this excited for a browser other than when I first saw one. The reason Google will never do this for Chrome is since they heavily need us not to enable Adblockers on our mobile devices. Microsoft might just be the one to do this.
- Yes, they should do it earliest. But I think this will not be implemented in near future. It's already a year passed since this suggestion and comment from Elliot Kirk on this post.
But it'll be very useful if it is implemented. We want same browser experience on all our different devices.
- Thanks for the support
- Thank you, that's all I was hoping for 🙂
