Microsoft is bringing a few extensions to their own Edge browser soon. In fact, if you’re a Windows Insider member, you can try them out now. That said, Microsoft wants to bring more extensions to its browser, and they’re looking at Chrome for it.
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
@jacobrossi extn’s in Store will at first be a carefully selected set covering top scenarios and API coverage, opening up to more in future
— Jacob Rossi (@jacobrossi) March 18, 2016
In a series of tweets posted by Jacob Rossi, an engineer on the Microsoft Edge team, Rossi revealed that Microsoft is currently working on a porting tool to run Chrome extensions in Edge. Rossi has said that this porting tool is not yet finished and some APIs are yet to be supported, which means that it’ll still take a while more before you can use your Chrome extensions on Edge.
Seeing as Microsoft’s Build developer conference will be happening next week and the Edge web summit a week after Build, it is possible that Microsoft would be revealing more about their plans to port Chrome extensions over to Edge.
Source: Windows Central
