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Add Extension Support for Android version of Edge browser
It's possible, there are browsers like Kiwi that support it. would be great if Microsoft Edge did the same and allowed our extensions used in desktop to be used on Android phones and tablets too.
of course this needs to be considered in the process of revamping the current Edge Android version and swapping its engines.
Hi HotCakeX, this is a great suggestion. I will make sure that the team that does our mobile browsers see it. Thanks - Elliot
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HotCakeX Actually Edge Android is supporting extension!! That's what I implement when I work for Microsoft. 😄 At that time we worked with Honey to support their extension. https://browserhow.com/how-to-enable-honey-coupon-extension-in-edge-android/
However, we do not enable sync and debugging tool to the users since it is hard to verify how extensions will affect the performance. You may try bing shopping extension in Edge Android for now. I think overall you raised a good idea but at that time I was only an engineer and could not make the decision. I made it work on myself(Almost the same time as KiWi) and then I left.(Do not know how they treat this feature).
- Hi,
just like many other people, I'm also Not a fan of built in extensions that are preinstalled and can't be removed by the user.
we want to install them ourselves and remove them at any time, just like on desktop.
the 3 included extensions in Edge mobile are pretty useless for me (honey, newsguard, adblock plus).
the first one doesn't support my retailers, the second one rates news websites in a very biased and false way, the third one takes money from ad companies to let their ads come through
- I really hope this one gets implemented. Specially since kiwi is open source now.
- Well we need to hear something from the developers about this or see this being added to the top feedback list
HotCakeX Current state of Web is just filled with transparent layer redirects and uBlock is very valuable to me, which is why I cannot switch away from Kiwi Browser. If MS Edge android got extensions support, it would be a huge advantage over other android browsers.
Also given Microsoft has better reputation for privacy compared to chinese "extension-enabled" browsers, The user base would really expand.- That's so true!
- Especially now that Firefox has removed this feature from its last mobile release and chrome has never had such feature on mobile, it could be very beneficial to increase Edge's popularity and base of users!
- Oh, good thread,
I use kiwi on android because of extension support, and support for external download manager, and tbh kiwi is much much faster than any of the browsers out there I tried.
I use edge chromium as my default browser on my desktop. Main problem I got is sync, and that's really a big problem. I would happily switch to edge android if they add extension & ext. download manager support in their browser.
For that time being, If anyone knows any workaround to tackle this sync problem,???- The sync issues for favorites are fixed in Dev and Canary
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/top-feedback-summary-for-march-4/m-p/1209808
- so any update from edge team about extension support? i need ublock origin and dark reader..
- Or give us installed extension like edge for Android rn, but put in one menu example: Addons. Because its now somewhat messy, spread in settings. And I do not like Adblock Plus because it eats in CPU and RAM and do not like Acceptable Ads BS
good idea
- Yeah?
- +1 for this feature request!
The only thing that keeps me on Firefox for Android is that it allows custom extensions, and I need Tampermonkey to for running custom user scripts.In the past 2 years I switched from the following browsers in my quest to find the perfect one 🙂
- Chrome
- Firefox
- Brave
If Edge will ever support extensions in Android I will switch again in a heartbeat to Edge.
- Firefox is the most decent choice in that list
1. it has extension support on mobile
2. it's not connected to Google ecosystem.
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.
- solution found, adguard sorts all these annoying gpdr cookie requests
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.
