There is a relatively easy-to-understand set of options to choose from during setup. Microsoft Edge still makes handling security and privacy much easier for users from the moment they install the browser. I’m still giving this category to Google Chrome at present, but for a lot of users, there isn’t a meaningful difference between the two. While there have been definite improvements to the Microsoft Edge Add-ons page over the months I’ve been using it as my primary browser, there is no question that the Chrome Web Store remains the more robust of the two with a considerable advantage when it comes to quantity.Įdge users aren’t missing out on these extensions, but you will run into the occasional incompatibility and it is irrefutably less convenient than just adding to Chrome from the Chrome Web Store. Fortunately for those who do want something that is only available in the Chrome Web Store, downloading and adding them to Microsoft Edge is simple: simply toggle “Allow extensions from other stores” on the Edge Extensions page. The Microsoft Store’s collection of extensions continues to grow to a point where most users probably won’t need to add Chrome extensions as well.
While the move to Chromium delivered a lot of things to Edge, one of the most crucial for power users was support for extensions.
