Partner center will stop accepting new MV2 extensions from 11th July
Hello, Edge Add-ons developers! In May 2022, https://aka.ms/MV3_Announcement the timelines for embracing Manifest Version 3 (MV3) for Microsoft Edge extensions and phasing out support for Manifest Version 2 (MV2). As we move forward in this direction, the following change will come into effect starting 11 th July 2022 – All new extensions must use MV3 to be published to the Microsoft Edge Add-ons store. You can continue updating your existing MV2 extensions that are already published on the Microsoft Edge Add-ons website. This timeline is subject to change; for the latest updates, visit: https://aka.ms/MSFTEdge-Overview-of-MV3 https://aka.ms/MSEARoadmap If you have any technical questions on your MV3 migration or the Microsoft Edge Add-ons ecosystem in general, you can reach out to us via our https://aka.ms/MSFT-Edge-Addons-GitHub-Discussions. If you are facing any issues on Partner Center, or the Microsoft Edge Add-ons site; or you have any suggestions for us to improve the Microsoft Edge Add-ons ecosystem; you can submit those via our https://aka.ms/SuggestANewFeature_EdgeAddons.
Introducing Microsoft Edge Secure Network
Today, we're excited to share that we have kicked off experiments for Microsoft Edge Secure Network in the Canary channel of Microsoft Edge. We are opening this preview to a small audience to get initial feedback and recommendations so we can offer the best in-browser Secure Network experience. What does Secure Network do? With Edge Secure Network, you can connect to public Wi-Fi at coffee shops, airports, restaurants, hotels, & other venues, complete transactions, and shop online, all with the improved privacy and security that gives you the peace of mind you deserve. Secure Network helps you protect your information by masking your device's IP address, encrypting your data, and routing it through a secure network (powered by Cloudflare) to a server that is geographically co-located so it’s harder for malicious actors to see your true location and what you’re doing. It also prevents your internet service provider from collecting your browsing data, like details about which websites you visit, and helps prevent online entities from using your IP address for profiling and sending you targeted ads. As part of our first experiment, we’re giving everyone who tries this out a small amount of free Secure Network bandwidth to use however they see fit. For some activities like streaming videos, this allotment may be used significantly quicker than other activities like shopping and browsing the web. We encourage you to use the built-in controls to enable and disable the Secure Network and use this data however it best suits your needs and send us feedback about how Secure Network works for you. See our support page for more details. We will be diligently reviewing feedback as we over the coming weeks, so keep an eye out for Edge Secure Network and help us create the best experience possible! How it Works Whenever Secure Network is connected, your browsing traffic will be encrypted and routed through our service’s servers and then to its final destination. This helps ensure that your personal data will be more secure no matter what complicated route your browsing data takes or how many parties are involved in providing the content inside your favorite web page. Geo Location and Regions A lot of web technology relies on trying to intelligently provide results based on where you are located. We want to ensure that the web still works as you expect it to so when you search for a nearby restaurant or local movie showtimes, you can still get relevant results. We also want to help protect you as an individual, so you’re not personally associated with those results just by browsing the web. We’ve partnered with Cloudflare to help ensure that if VPNs are allowed in your region, wherever you connect to the Secure Network service, you will connect to a local data center and the IP address your browsing data flows through will be geographically similar to your actual region. However, websites will not see your individual network address, keeping your browsing disassociated from you while still allowing the internet to ‘just work’ as you expect. Microsoft Account and Data Collection During this preview phase Secure Network requires users to be signed into the browser with their Microsoft account. Sign-in is used solely to authenticate to the service and ensure you’re to receive more free data during the current period. No data about your user identity or account is sent over the Secure Network connection as part of this service. Additionally, limited diagnostic data may be ephemerally present on our partner’s servers for no more than 25 hours to help troubleshoot connection and performance issues, but is not persisted or directly associated with any given user. See our privacy promise and Cloudflare privacy notice for even more details. Send Us Feedback Be on the lookout for Secure Network as we expand our testing. We look forward to discovering how you would like to use Secure Network to protect your data, what works well, and what we can improve. Let us know on the shield icon flyout by giving us a quick thumbs up or down or use the in-browser feedback icon to send us more detailed feedback. Alt + Shift + I – Shortcut to send feedback As always, thanks for being a part of this journey towards a more private and secure web! Brandon Maslen, Principal Software Engineer Kelda Anderson, Product ManagerEdge 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 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/extensions-chromium/#the-featured-badge 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 http://aka.ms/MSEAddons. 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 https://developer.microsoft.com/microsoft-edge/extensions/. 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 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/extensions-chromium/publish/api/using-addons-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. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/extensions-chromium/publish/verify-microsoft-edge-program 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 https://github.com/microsoft/MicrosoftEdge-Extensions/discussions/27. 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: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/tampermonkey/iikmkjmpaadaobahmlepeloendndfphd https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/cisco-webex-extension/ikdddppdhmjcdfgilpnbkdeggoiicjgo https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/grammarly-grammar-checke/cnlefmmeadmemmdciolhbnfeacpdfbkd https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/yahoo-japan%E3%81%AB%E7%B0%A1%E5%8D%98%E3%82%A2%E3%82%AF%E3%82%BB%E3%82%B9/lpjihcjmajbednkgfjdiamlncimcdlnl?hl=en-US&gl=JP https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/microsoft-editor-spellin/hokifickgkhplphjiodbggjmoafhignh?hl=en-US&gl=IN https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/global-speed/mjhlabbcmjflkpjknnicihkfnmbdfced https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/metamask/ejbalbakoplchlghecdalmeeeajnimhm https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/idm-integration-module/llbjbkhnmlidjebalopleeepgdfgcpec https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/halo/npbihmhlfjhckkmiaogmjffkbibaonjb 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 https://aka.ms/Twitter_EdgeExtensions. If you have any questions or feedback on Microsoft Edge Add-ons, please share themhttps://aka.ms/EdgeAddonsSupporthere. We look forward to yet another exciting journey in 2023. Cheers!Microsoft Edge Add-ons | Tell us more about your experience with browser extensions
Hello, browser extension developers! Your continual, uninhibited inputs on the positives and challenges encountered with your browser extension journey has always helped us understand where Microsoft Edge Add-ons could improve. In that effort, we aim to better comprehend how you engage with extension stores and the various factors influencing your journey with extensions development. We want you to be vocal again, to support you with more features. Could you please spare some time to participate in a 5-minute survey? https://aka.ms/browserextdevsurvey_1022 The survey is designed specifically to gain further information on your extension development journey and discern your experience with the available features. This would help us support you better in your journey around extensions. Your insights are immensely helpful to us, in launching new updates to Microsoft Edge Add-ons. We appreciate your effort & look forward to growing together.Microsoft Edge Add-ons: NEW features to improve extension discoverability
Hello Insider Community, We are constantly working on improving the Microsoft Edge Add-ons user experience. We are thrilled to announce new improvements to the https://aka.ms/MSEAddons that makes it easier for users to discover new extensions. Collections* & Categories now show the user region’s trending extensions as “Top Edge Add-ons” User Feedback #1: Categories in Edge Add-ons are useful to find extensions for specific jobs to be done. But these categories are not locale-specific, and the order of curated extensions are generic. New Feature #1: Users will now be able to see a geo-specific order of listing within each Edge Add-ons category. The ordering within each extension category will now be powered by our AI recommendation engine to display popular and relevant extensions for each locale / country / geo. For example, here is the how the “https://aka.ms/MSEAdevtools” Edge Add-ons category shows up in different locales: China India USA Category: Developer Tools User Feedback #2: Collections on the Edge Add-ons site are helpful to find a curated list of extensions for a specific task, but the order of the extensions displayed in collections is not geo-specific. New Feature #2: We improved our algorithm to show more relevant extensions to our users for a specific region on certain Edge Add-ons collections*. Now, users will be able to see the top extensions within certain collections, based on their popularity in the respective locale / country / geo. For example, here is the how the “https://aka.ms/MSEAEnt” and “https://aka.ms/MSEAShop” Edge Add-ons collections show up in different locales: China India USA Collections: Have fun with Microsoft Edge & Go window shopping *This feature update is available only for the following collections on the https://aka.ms/MSEAddonsage - https://aka.ms/MSFT_Edge_Addons_Trending, https://aka.ms/MSEAEnt, https://aka.ms/MSEAShop, https://aka.ms/MSFT_Edge_Addons_Social, https://aka.ms/MSFT_Edge_Addons_NewsAndWeatherinformed, https://aka.ms/MSFT_Edge_Addons_Photosperfect, https://aka.ms/MSFT_Edge_Addons_Accessibilitytools, https://aka.ms/MSFT-Edge-Addons-Productivity and More add-ons. Auto-complete search suggestions on Edge Add-ons website User Feedback #3: The suggestions appearing under the search box while entering the keywords on Edge Add-ons site does not populate the region’s trending search keywords as suggestions. New Feature #3: The suggestions under the search box of the Edge Add-ons website while entering the keywords to find an add-on is now automated. It considers the trending search keywords and provides users with instant and complete suggestion results based on the user region. Below is the auto complete suggestion for a user in India after entering “I” in the search box of store. For example, here is how the auto-complete suggestion populates trending searches after entering “i” in different locales: China(with locale as English) India USA Search-box auto-complete suggestions These feature updates will make it simpler for our users to find popular add-ons for their region and get started with enhancing their Edge browser experience further. Do let us know what you think of these improvements by leaving a comment below. We would love to hear about your experience, suggestions, and feedback. Cheers!Microsoft Edge Add-ons | NEW Feature to manage user reviews on your extension
Microsoft Partner Center now includes a Reviews dashboard. This feature brings a crucial change to help manage your Microsoft Edge extension product page. This update enables you to view and engage with the user reviews. You can thank your extension’s users for positive feedback or respond appropriately to any comments. Your response to a review appears under the respective review on the product detail page of your Microsoft Edge add-on. Go to https://partner.microsoft.com/dashboard/microsoftedge/overview to try out the Reviews feature! Share your feedback and questions about this new feature with the Microsoft Edge Add-ons Team in the comments below or on the https://aka.ms/GitHub-Respond-to-user-reviews-on-your-MSFTEdgeAddon.What's new on Microsoft Partner Center for Edge Add-on Developers?
*Updated on 8th April 2022 to include new updates on Publish API, which is live now! Microsoft is happy to announce updates to https://aka.ms/MicrosoftPartnerCenter based on your feedback. These changes streamline the process of submitting a Microsoft Edge extension for review at the https://aka.ms/MSEAddons. Microsoft Edge Add-ons Publish API is now live! With this addition, you can integrate APIs directly into your build pipeline and deploy packages and publish updated versions without visiting the Partner Center. To learn more, you can check the below documentations: https://aka.ms/Using_MSFTEdgeAddons_API https://aka.ms/MSFTEdgeAddons_API_Reference Microsoft Partner Center breadcrumbs: The breadcrumbs feature has been added to the Microsoft Partner Center interface. Developers can now follow their exact path while navigating Partner Center. This allows developers to: Maintain awareness of their location within Microsoft Partner Center Click on any breadcrumb to navigate back to the selected page Task Menu: The Task Menu on Microsoft Partner Center has been revamped. The Overview section of the Microsoft Edge segment lists all your extensions which are either In the Store or In draft. Clicking on an extension from this list takes you to the Extension overview page. This page includes task menu on the left showing all the sections of the selected extension – Package, Availability, Properties, Store listings, and Analytics. This enables easy navigation between the extension package upload page and other pages. It also provides a transparent view of all the sections that developers need to complete when creating a new extension. Save & Continue / Publish: The Save & Continue option has been added to the top-right corner of the extension submission workflow panel. This enables developers to add the necessary details then save and continue to the next step with one click. The Publish button is blurred to indicate that the option is not yet available. Once you have completed all the details necessary to submit your add-on for review, the Publish option becomes active. This change is also helpful when updating extensions, as you may directly publish your updates from any page. Extension overview: The Extension overview panel remains the same and the status changes from grey to green next to each section that is updated. Go to https://aka.ms/MicrosoftPartnerCenter and upload/update your extension package to try out the new changes! Share your feedback and questions on the newly available updates with us in the comments below or through the https://aka.ms/MSFT_EdgeAddons_Support documentation.
