Edge Workspaces preview for consumer accounts now available
Today, we’re excited to announce that the preview of Edge Workspaces for consumer accounts is now available! At Ignite 2022, we announced Edge Workspaces, the multiplayer browsing experience that lets you organize projects in separate, customizable browser windows which can be easily shared with others. Collaborators in a workspace share the same set of tabs so they can easily stay in sync and browse together. Previously, Edge Workspaces was only available as an enterprise public preview, but today we’re expanding that preview for anyone who wants to try it out at home on your own, or with friends and family. Preview details: You will need to be signed into Microsoft Edge 111.0.1661.51 (or higher) on a PC with your Microsoft account to join the preview (macOS preview availability targeted for early April 2023). You will get five invites to send to friends and family to join the preview with you. We’re starting with a limited group of users to get feedback and will continue to roll out the preview to more users through the spring. Click here to sign up for the Edge Workspaces Consumer Preview. Please submit feedback using the thumbs up or down prompt in the Edge Workspaces menu, or through the feedback tool in Microsoft Edge.Increased availability in Edge Workspaces consumer preview
We are thrilled to announce that in response to the excitement and high demand to join the Edge Workspaces consumer preview, we are expanding its availability so that more of you can try it out! If you’re ready to try out Edge Workspaces, you can join the preview here. If you are looking to learn more about how Edge Workspaces can help you stay focused and browse the web together with your friends and family, you can read more here. We hope you enjoy Edge Workspaces! Please let us know what you think so we can continue to make Workspaces even better before it becomes widely available. Happy multitasking!Extensions Badging on the Edge Add-Ons Store
Extensions have been contributing to making browsing on edge a delightful experience for users. The Edge addons store catalogue has grown to close to 11,000 add-ons and as we continue to grow, we want to evolve and be ready for scale. This means there is more hustle and competition for extensions discoverability in the marketplace. Thus, making sure we provide the best experience to both our users and developers becomes critical for us. Towards that end, we intend to ensure users can trust the extensions they are downloading on edge and we as a marketplace, surface high quality extensions to help them achieve this. We are planning to introduce extensions badging on EAS which will encourage developers to build extensions, keeping our best practices in mind. Leading to edge extension users getting the ease to differentiate and discover these quality extensions on EAS. The Edge Addons Store is starting its experiment with extensions badges soon. And we want to iteratively build this alongside our dev community. Edge is starting with a small-scale experiment and will begin to engage with the developer community to talk through the criterion and help them get acquainted with the badging process on EAS. Please look out for more details on the extensions badging experiment from Edge! What are our principles? User Centric Objective evaluation criterion Watch out this space for more information on Badging extensions on EAS. You may also refer to our documentation for further details. PS – Badging in this case refers to visual labels, which will be shown on the extensions’ product description pages and other pages on the EAS, once they are granted to a particular extension.A 2022 LookBook - Microsoft Edge Add-Ons
Happy New Year, everyone! We hope 2023 is off to a great start for all of you! Let’s take a quick peek into our 2022 journey. From adding a developer portal to creating review dashboards, it has been an eventful year at the Microsoft Edge Add-ons community. Our key focus this year throughout the second half was to migrate our extensions to manifest version V3 from V2 and help developers publish their extensions through the same Microsoft Edge Add-ons website. Thanks to the numerous developers who adapted to this change and helped us achieve this growth and continue to help us cater to our users better! Here is a recap through the product developments this year January: Microsoft Edge extensions developer portal The new edition of the developer portal contains relevant resources and documentation for Microsoft Edge extensions. For more information, see Microsoft Edge Add-ons Developer. March: Addition of breadcrumbs to Microsoft Partner Center Developers can view the navigation bar / tree path while using Partner Centre to track the exact Partner Center path users are visiting. Developers can maintain awareness of their location within Microsoft Partner Center. Publish and update extensions using the Microsoft Edge Add-ons API You can integrate APIs directly into your Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. You can also publish extension package updates to the Microsoft Edge Add-ons website without using Partner Center. For more information, see Using the Microsoft Edge Add-ons API May: Review Dashboard Microsoft Partner Center now includes a Reviews dashboard. This update enables you to view and engage with the user reviews. June: New vetting process updated and more details added to provide the list of docs needed for someone signing up as a business. Verify the company account information associated with your Microsoft Partner Center account - Microsoft Edge Development | Microsoft Learn July: Retirement of submitting new Microsoft Edge Add-ons with Manifest V2 Microsoft Partner Center only accepts new Manifest V3 Microsoft Edge extension submissions, with visibility set as 'Hidden' or 'Public'. To share your feedback and comments, see GitHub discussion topic - Update your extensions from Manifest V2 to V3. The main focus for the later half of the year was to get developers to migrate their extensions from Manifest V2 to V3 and getting new developers to create their extensions. October: CSAT Survey: Started sending out regular CSAT survey to developers to know their pulse on what is working and what is not with Microsoft Edge Add-Ons. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is a list of top extensions for the year 2022, that have been repeatedly trending with our users, month on month: Tampermonkey Cisco Webex Extension Grammarly: Grammar Checker and Writing App Yahoo! JAPANに簡単アクセス Microsoft Editor: Spelling & Grammar Checker Global Speed MetaMask IDM Integration Module Halo User feedback and enthusiasm on social media always drives us to work more harder to enhance your experience. Here is some of the love we received from you over the last year: 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 here. If you have any questions or feedback on Microsoft Edge Add-ons, please share them here. We look forward to yet another exciting journey in 2023. Cheers!
