We all have seen Google showing a warning banner at top of Chrome Web Store in new Microsoft Edge with a message to switch to its browser to use extensions securely, even though Edge comes with Windows Defender Smart Screen and Unwanted Application protection built-in. An Edge developer said the new Microsoft Edge protects its users against malicious extensions, the developer reveals the browser process (msedge.exe) queries and monitors extension stores periodically for threat updates and extension updates.
While the new Microsoft Edge supports Chrome extensions, installing them isn’t straightforward for the first time after installing Edge, you need to enable allow extensions from other stores setting in edge://extensions page. If you try to do that, Microsoft cautions it does not verify extensions installed from third-party stores and warns doing may affect Edge performance, it recommends to visit Microsoft Edge add-ons site to get verified extensions, once you click “Allow,” you’ll be able to add extensions from Chrome Web Store to Microsoft Edge.
Till now Google has warned when you’re on an extension or theme page in Chrome Web Store, this no longer happening. If you now visit any extension page on Web Store in Edge, the warning is no longer showing in all Edge versions. Has Google backtracked? Seems the search engine has softened and removed the warning, but the company is still continuing to show pop-up ads on most of its websites in the new Edge browser, why the message has been removed is something Google to answer because it has started showing it.
BTW, Microsoft Edge Canary now supports Chrome themes behind a flag, it doesn’t take too long for Microsoft to enable that flag by default in dev, Beta and Stable versions where you will be allowed to install not just extensions but themes as well from Chrome Web Store.
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