Microsoft Edge Add-ons: A 2021 Lookbook
Happy New Year again, everyone! We hope 2022 is off to a great start for all of you! Looking back, 2021 has been an eventful year for Microsoft Edge Add-ons. We were able to work on many aspects of the Edge Addons ecosystem, including the extensions catalog, extension user experience, developer publishing workflow and more. Here is a peek into our 2021 journey. Starting with our users, one of the key user asks was to get more extensions onto the http://aka.ms/MSEAddons. Between https://aka.ms/B2021 and New Year’s Eve 2022, http://aka.ms/MSEAddons catalog grew by 2x, in terms of the size of our extension catalog. Thanks to the thousands of developers who helped us achieve this growth and continue to help us cater to our users better! To give you a glimpse of our current extension catalog, we have curated below, a list of 2021’s top* extensions from the Microsoft Edge Add-ons site. Top* extensions from Enterprise developers: https://aka.ms/CiscoWebex https://aka.ms/GrammarlyExt https://aka.ms/tampermonkeyy https://aka.ms/MSEditor https://aka.ms/NortonPwMgr Top* extensions from Individual developers: https://aka.ms/DarkReader https://aka.ms/BetterTTV https://aka.ms/GlobalSpeed https://aka.ms/Enh4YT https://aka.ms/ViMonkey (*Based on total download count, excluding extensions from ad blockers, password managers and shopping assistant categories) Apart from growing our catalog, we also added many developer-centric and user-focused enhancements to the Edge Add-ons ecosystem. Here’s a quick recap of the product / ecosystem updates we made in 2021: January: [DEVELOPERS] https://aka.ms/MSEAPCI: An extension developer can view and download the extension certification report from their https://aka.ms/MSEAPC dashboard, containing the result of the extension review and relevant details. February: [DEVELOPERS] https://aka.ms/MSEAPCI: Developers can choose a subset of languages instead of manually entering each language in the listing details on https://aka.ms/MSEAPC & the ability to use the same marketing assets across all markets/marketplaces. April: [DEVELOPERS] https://aka.ms/V2toV3: To reduce fragmentation of the web for all developers, and to create better web compatibility for our customers, we plan to support the Declarative Net Request API and other changes proposed as part of Manifest V3 [DEVELOPERS] https://aka.ms/MSEAFeature May: [DEVELOPERS] Extension submission: Developers can track their extension submission review status from the https://aka.ms/MSEAPC & view past updates, the status of submissions, and manage extensions on Partner Center. [USERS] Themes: Launched new & custom themes to the Edge Add-ons site. June: [DEVELOPERS] https://aka.ms/MSEAGrowthCamp [USERS] https://aka.ms/MSEAUserSweepStakes July: https://aka.ms/MSEAPopularExt2021 https://aka.ms/UserSweepstakeWinners [USERS] Consumers can see the active user count of an extension on the Edge Add-on store listing page. [USERS] The updated extension menu on the address bar of Microsoft Edge allows users to hide & pin their extensions August: [DEVELOPERS] https://aka.ms/Associate_Azure_AD_with_your_Partner_Center_account [DEVELOPERS] https://aka.ms/API_to_automate_publishing_and_updating_Microsoft_Edge_Add-ons [DEVELOPERS] https://aka.ms/SignintoMicrosoftPartnerCenterusingGitHub September: https://aka.ms/MSEASweepStakesExt https://aka.ms/Trending_Microsoft_Edge_Add-ons [DEVELOPERS] https://aka.ms/ExtensionAnalyticsonPartnerCentertoTrackPerformance: Extension developers can view their extension's usage, adoption, and in-market performance October: [DEVELOPERS] Launched a Community with Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors, help them learn the process of building extensions [DEVELOPERS] Featured a curated list of extensions developed by student developers December: [DEVELOPERS] https://aka.ms/MSEARoadmap & https://aka.ms/MSEAReleasedFeatures documentation were launched to showcase the upcoming and live feature updates on Microsoft Edge Add-ons ecosystem. [USERS] Each extension category is now powered by our AI recommendation engine to display popular and relevant extensions for each locale / country / geo-location. Your feedback & testimonials are our motivation, as we continue to evolve our Edge Add-ons ecosystem in 2022 and beyond. Here are some of your testimonials about the Edge Add-ons ecosystem: https://aka.ms/2021Tweet1 THANK YOU once again, for the fantastic year! We are grateful to each of you for the continuous feedback & contribution to the Edge extension ecosystem. You can keep in touch with us at #EdgeExtensions https://aka.ms/Twitter_EdgeExtensions. If you have any questions or feedback on Microsoft Edge Add-ons, please share themhttps://aka.ms/EdgeAddonsSupport. View 2021’s recap for Microsoft Edge for developers https://aka.ms/MSEDev2021WinBlog. We look forward to yet another exciting journey in 2022. Cheers!
