Comments on: Microsoft Edge support of Chrome extensions is a great idea

By: Robert Shuste

Robert Shuste — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 14:25:00 +0000

Here we are closing in on the Edge of March and still no extensions for Microsoft Edge. Am I surprised? No, I am not. Since the release of Windows 10 back at the end of July 2015, we’ve been promised Extensions and strangely enough, some are believing it.
People, if Microsoft were serious about their Browser, they’d had extensions in it when Windows 10 was dropped into the public. The point is and obvious is, they are not. I agree with another, we’ll be hearing about the promise of extensions next year this time and they will not be here. Consequently we use Chrome and Microsoft very apparently does not care less. Thus their little or no serious effort in putting something as simple as an extension into their new Browser. And they will not.

By: carstorm

carstorm — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:31:00 +0000

In reply to Concerned Reader.

There is nothing wrong with a standard, if a browser didn’t want google to have all the control of extensions in their than they could either make another extension store* where they have different policies than Google’s and/or make it easier to sideload extensions allowing them to use the already vast amount of extensions available while have some control (in their own store*) at least.

* The term “store” is meant as any site where you can download extensions regardless of price (i.e. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/apps or https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ )

By: Mr. Mobile Performance

Mr. Mobile Performance — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 16:28:00 +0000

In reply to Concerned Reader. It would no different from Microsoft Word being the de facto standard for documents. Open Office and Libre Office are still possible, and a basic Word document is universally compatible. I don't see the problem with a de facto standard for browser extensions. Quite the contrary, we want all our browsers to be standards compliant.

By: George Hunt

George Hunt — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 09:18:00 +0000

In reply to Concerned Reader. True. Everything in this article was kinda informative and pleasant until i saw that statement, it sucks, why would the writer want that? Convenience was probably the only thing in his mind.

By: Concerned Reader

Concerned Reader — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 08:30:00 +0000

Your second last paragraph wrote about Mozilla abandoning its own add-on platform is worrisome.

People who understand their right to freedom don’t want to see an united extension platform owned by Google or any one corporate entity. Monopoly may be bad for end-users.

Having another active add-on/extension platform is a good thing, if one day Google changes something in the Chrome Web Store that affects our privacy or upsets us in general, at least we have another option.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 23:33:00 +0000

In reply to Mr. Mobile Performance.

Yessir, it’s great for me too since extensions most useful to me on my devices are most often found in Chrome only…I use Edge (and IE11, Chrome, FF, Linux/Midori, yadda) often enough and especially if other browsers get a site saying “sorry…can’t load/understand something here”…Edge is as good as IE for getting expected site loads/usage. What few things Edge can’t do from context menu just jump into another browser and take it from there. Cheers!

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 19:50:00 +0000

In reply to Inlidoma Moul. Have to agree but, they are clever enough to try dumb us down, no ' save as ' nice piece of social engineering , wonder if this was done at the behest of some government agency.

By: Inlidoma Moul

Inlidoma Moul — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 13:23:00 +0000

Actually, you should just ditch Edge and use Chrome or Firefox. Microsoft cannot make a good browser, period. The folks at the Roaches Development Center are just not smart enough.

By: Mr. Mobile Performance

Mr. Mobile Performance — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 01:33:00 +0000

Effectively a web standard for extensions has been created. That’s a good thing.