Microsoft Edge for Android gets Extensions support

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Microsoft's mobile web browser for Android will soon support browser extensions. The browser, which Microsoft renamed recently to Microsoft Edge: AI Browser, does not support extensions at the moment.

Most Chromium-based browsers, including Google Chrome, do not support browser extensions on mobile. For Google, it is keeping mobile users on Android away from content blockers.

Mozilla introduced full extensions support in Firefox for Android recently. There are some Chromium-based browsers that do support Chrome extensions and some Chrome browsers, like Brave, Vivaldi or Opera, include native content blocking functionality.

Microsoft followed Google in regards to extensions support, or a lack thereof, when it released Microsoft Edge for Android back in 2021. Microsoft's mobile browser supports tracker and adblocking by default. The content blocker is powered by Adblock Plus.


Extensions for Microsoft Edge: KI Browser for Android



Microsoft introduced a new experimental flag in Microsoft Edge: KI Browser for Android. Available only in the Canary development version of the browser, it adds support for extensions when enabled.
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