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Dev channel update to 77.0.230.2 is live
Hello insiders! Today we released build 77.0.230.2 to the Microsoft Edge Dev Channel. There were quite a few fixes and additions this week that we believe are significant enough to mention:
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josh_bodner wrote:New features and behavior:
- Prevented extensions that are banned from the Chrome extensions store from being installed.
I think there should be a flag for administrators to disable this behavior. I mean, if I'm not using Chrome, I don't want Google to have unilateral say over what extensions I can or cannot use. Edge simply enforcing any extension ban Google comes up with defeats part of the point of using an alternative browser in the first place.
I can see the value of having this enabled by default since a lot of people insist on installing extensions that originally came from their store, but a lot of us who don't use Google's store in the first place may disagree with some of their decisions as to what extensions should or shouldn't be allowed in the browser.