Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge join forces to improve browser extensions

[MagicSahar]

The teams behind the Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge browsers have banded together to improve extensions, the add-ons you can download to customize the software. That should mean your extensions will work better and come with a better security foundation to protect you from malware.

 

On Friday, the teams unveiled a discussion and development forum at the World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, dedicated to developing standards for extensions. The forum, the WebExtensions Community Group, gives engineers a place to build a unified and more secure core foundation for extensions.

 

The group also hopes to make it easier for developers to write extensions because a shared standard will help bridge differences between browsers.

 

"We aim to identify common ground, bring [browsers] into closer alignment, and chart a course for future evolution," community group members said of their goals. There's not yet a public timeline for publishing a draft of the standard or building it into browsers.

 

Source : https://www.cnet.com/news/chrome-safari-firefox-and-edge-join-forces-to-improve-browser-extensions/