{"id":289000,"date":"2018-12-10T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=289000"},"modified":"2018-12-10T10:30:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T08:30:26","slug":"new-microsoft-edge-will-support-all-chrome-extensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/289000-new-microsoft-edge-will-support-all-chrome-extensions.html","title":{"rendered":"New Microsoft Edge will support all Chrome extensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s new Chromium-based browser will support existing Chrome extensions, Edge project manager Kyle Alden said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Windows10\/comments\/a3pt19\/microsoft_edge_making_the_web_better_through_more\/eb8rhe5\/?context=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Reddit thread<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest drawbacks of the current version of Edge is its significant lack of extensions, with the browser only supporting some essential add-ons through the Microsoft Store.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the the availability of Chrome extensions on the new browser, Alden also confirmed that current UWP apps which run on Edge&#8217;s existing HTML engine will also be supported.<\/p>\n<p>Alden explained that while these UWP apps will be offered through the Microsoft Store, Microsoft also expects to offer these apps directly through the browser.<\/p>\n<p>The first version of the new Chromium-based Edge browser is expected to be released in early 2019.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/288782-microsoft-confirms-its-edge-browser-will-be-built-on-chromium.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Microsoft confirms its Edge browser will be built on Chromium<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest drawbacks of the current version of Edge is its significant lack of extensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":125356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[14747,37194,30102,36820],"class_list":["post-289000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-chrome-extensions","tag-chromium","tag-microsoft-edge","tag-universal-windows-platform-uwp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289036,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289000\/revisions\/289036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}