Recently Microsoft has rolled out redesigned Edge Add-ons website to Edge Canary and Dev versions, today the company has brought new extensions page to tell users that, in addition to Edge Add-ons Store, they can obtain extensions from Chrome Web store also. New Edge Extensions page in Canary version links to Chrome Web Store to suggest users that “You (they) can also find great extensions in Chrome Web Store”. This is more of Microsoft accepting Chrome Web Store supremacy and routing its users to Chrome extensions store as it has thousands of extensions when compared to Edge.
New extensions page that can be reached by visiting edge://extensions in Canary, now offers a header informing users they can personalize browser with extensions and links to Edge Support page that offers instructions on how the extensions can be added to and removed from Edge browser. At the bottom of the page, it provides links to Edge Add-ons Store as well as Chrome Web Store.
To install Chrome extensions in the Edge browser, on the edge extensions page, you need to enable the “Allow extensions from other stores” setting.
From the beginning, after adopting Chromium/Blink engine Microsoft has never mentioned Chrome or Chrome Web Store in its internal pages, it clearly used third-party store without naming the Chrome Web Store, now in the new edge://extensions page, it mentions the name directly and links to it also.
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