Edge is trying to get closer to Firefox and Chrome, albeit slowly: its store already has 1,200 functional extensions

The Edge Extensions Store (Microsoft Edge Addons Store) is perhaps a great unknown for anyone who is new to the not-so-new Microsoft browser. It is a safe formula for extending Edge's functions through extensions similar to those found in Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.

And it is that although for now, Microsoft still has a lot of work to do, it seems that this time they have, that they have learned from their mistakes and that, although slowly little by little they are improving the number of available options .Nothing to do with the existing scarcity in the first version of Edge that hit the market a few years ago.

From just over 100 to 1,200 extensions

Microsoft Edge Addons Store is the option to enhance the use of Chromium-based Edge A store to download add-ons that has passed in very little time from just over 150 extensions, up to the 1,200 extensions that it currently offers. Yes, it's a long way from Chrome or Firefox, but the path taken is now more robust.

Chrome Web Store and Mozilla Addons Store are still ahead, but right now Microsoft Edge Addons Store features some of the most important extensions And what more utility can they offer? And we must not forget that, despite Google's efforts, using Edge and Chrome extensions is a perfectly valid option.

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Google&39;s message recommending switching to Chrome to safely use extensions>an attempt to discourage users from using Edge and Chrome extensions, something that You also want to prevent Microsoft Edge Addons Store by adding new addons."

The growth of extensions in the Microsoft Edge Addons Store also contributes to the fact that Microsoft allows more developers to create extensions. Add-ons just as safe as those found in Chrome.

Microsoft Edge Addons Store is available at this link and although it is under development, we can already find a search engine, located on the left side of the screen, as well as a category system that allows that the extension that interests us can be found before.

Among the more than a thousand extensions that can be found today in the Microsoft Edge Addons Store, some of the most common among users: this is the case of Adblock Plus, UBlock Origin, Adblock Plus, Grammarly, Enhancer for YouTube, Reddit Enhancement Suite, Honey, Evernote Web Clipper, Momentum, FB Purity…

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