Windows 10’s Edge Extensions to Be Nearly 100% Compatible with Google Chrome

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Redmond getting ready to release browser extensions

Microsoft is getting ready to roll out extension support for Edge browser in Windows 10 preview builds, and a page that has gotten leaked earlier today confirms that work on these add-ons is advancing fast these days.

Previously, Microsoft said that it wanted all Google Chrome extensions to work in Edge with little to no modifications at all, and it turns out that the company’s plan to achieve this is heading in the right direction.

Bavo Luysterborg has looked into the extensions published on the recently leaked page and discovered that all Microsoft Edge add-ons are nearly fully compatible with Chrome. Truth is, Microsoft wants this to work the other way around, but it’s very clear that cross platform compatibility is an important step in Redmond’s plan to bring as many extensions as possible on Edge browser.

Very similar code

“It’s currently impossible to get these extensions working in Edge (in Insider builds that is), but since the upcoming extension system in Edge is rumoured to be compatible to Google Chrome’s system I decided to try to load them in Chrome to find out just how compatible they really are. Turns out they’re nearly 100% compatible,” Luysterborg writes.

Part of Microsoft’s project to bring extensions on Edge was to allow developers to use most of the code implemented in their Chrome extensions, and it looks like the two versions are indeed very similar.

“The source code for these Edge extension pretty much looks like the original Chrome code with some additional code to replace ‘chrome’ with ‘msBrowser’ and 2 minor additions to manifest.json.”

While extensions will soon debut in Microsoft Edge for insiders, users who are still running the stable version of Windows 10 have to wait until June to get this new feature. That’s the time when Microsoft is expected to release the Redstone update for Windows 10, which is very likely to bring extensions too.

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[CODYQX4]

Microsoft is way too scattered and divided when they need their shit together more than ever.

 

They supposedly rebuilt this browser (yeah right, it's just modded IE), and still no extension support after them clamoring for it for a year?

 

Also, been hearing about Redstone forever, but no release yet. Come on Microsoft, it takes you this long to add features/fixes that should have been there day 1, because your OS came out half-baked and eternally BETA?

 

Maybe if they didn't try so hard and fail on 8 TWICE they wouldn't be tripping over their own feet with this desperate hail mary pass that had them reinventing the wheel in production (they should have been overhauling their dev in between OS, not pushing out a half done OS with the promise of finishing it later). 

[Sylence]

3 hours ago, CODYQX4 said:

They supposedly rebuilt this browser (yeah right, it's just modded IE), and still no extension support after them clamoring for it for a year?

 

Take a look at other browsers' production cycles like Firefox and Chrome. it took so many years for them to complete their browsers and add features that are available right now to them. it's funny to expect a company to build a browser almost from the ground up in a year with all the features modern browsers have spent years to create included!!

 modded IE? lol the things you are talking about are Cyberfox which is modded Firefox and Opera which is modded Chrome. Edge is not that modded 

 

[OrbingStorm]

They stripped all the crap out of internet explorer  to create edge.Thats all.

[jimmyjazz]

I really don't understand why people believe that edge is internet explorer modded, while it was actually build from scratch with a new engine and other new stuff. It's the old mantra when MS make some stuff it have to be terrible even if it is pretty decent and useful.  

[CODYQX4]

1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

I really don't understand why people believe that edge is internet explorer modded, while it was actually build from scratch with a new engine and other new stuff. It's the old mantra when MS make some stuff it have to be terrible even if it is pretty decent and useful.  

Having the User Agent effectively list IE 12 gives one that suspicion.

[pc71520]

Still Edge won't be

my primary browser...