POLL: Will the expansion be able to save Microsoft Edge?

Internet Explorer, for approval by pranksters, is built into Windows in order to allow users to download Chrome or Firefox browser. Its successor, Edge pleased with good speed, modern interface and newly emerged extensions. But if it helps improve the situation?

The lack of extensions have always been the main drawback of browsers from Microsoft. Can be adapted to the speed of IE or Edge, you can get used to the characteristics of the interface programs, but no extensions are usually the last and decisive argument in favor of competitors.

In Microsoft's a very long time went to, to enable support for third-party extensions for your browser. And finally it happened. In Windows 10 build 14291 is already available for pre-test participants for the first time we can see and evaluate the performance enhancements in Microsoft Edge.

designed to download special extensions page. It presents while only three names: Microsoft Translator to translate the page, Mouse Gestures for control the browser by means of gestures and Reddit Enhancement Suite for easy viewing of the popular site Reddit.

To install the extension, you must first download it from the above page. Then in the main Edge menu, select the "Extensions" and then - click "Upload extension." Next you need to specify the folder where you saved the extension, after which it will appear in the browser. To manage your installed extensions there is a special menu. Additionally, you can display the buttons you needed extensions to the browser toolbar next to the address bar about the same as it looks in Chrome.

Of course, presented a set of extensions is not too impressive user pampered wealth Chrome Web Store. However, do not forget that this is just a test instances to demonstrate the new browser features. By approval representatives of Microsoft, the expansion will be in the Windows Store catalog for all users later this year. And among them will be mega AdBlock, Adblock Plus, LastPass, Evernote and others. To this end, the company promised to release a special utility that helps developers to easily port the Chrome extension for Edge.

Lots of questions on this: yes we're working on a porting tool to run Chrome extensions in Edge. Not yet finished and not all APIs supported

- Jacob Rossi (@jacobrossi) March 18, 2016

However, some developers have decided not to wait for special tools from Microsoft and adapt their extensions Edge browser yourself. For example, you can already download the appropriate version of the expansion Turn Off the Lights, which serves for easy video viewing in the browser, on the GitHub. Let's hope that this process will continue to gather momentum.