Microsoft Begins Accepting Extensions For Its Edge Chromium Browser (inputmag.com) 38
Microsoft's new Chromium-based Edge browser is now open to developers to submit extensions. The updated version of Edge is set to launch on January 15. From a report: Microsoft says that if a developer has already created an extension for Google Chrome, there shouldn't be any additional work to port it over to Edge Chromium. The browser will be the new default delivered to all 900 million Windows 10 users, so developers should have no reason not to port their extensions over.
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So they look good in the updated UI.
And honestly even though the HTML Engine is Chromium this isn't Chrome Browser it is a different browser with the same rendering engine.
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this is a big bold and shitty move by microsoft
In other words, business as usual for them. I mean, it is _Microsoft_. They never cared about their customers or about better tech.
Any extra competition is good competition (Score:3)
Because Chrome is out of control. They use their monopoly to push ideals and "standards" developed in isolation and too often show a conflict of interest as they've pushed over the years to make things like ad blockers less effective. It has become the new Internet Explorer.
YouTube and other Google products apparently have a history of making subtle changes with seemingly no purpose other than to hurt the experience on other browsers. I'd not be surprised if one of the deciding factors in killing Trident an
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So you think Microsoft just writing a skin on top of Chromium and locking it into their own app ecosystem is some sort of solution? At the end of the day, Google still controls the engine, and unless MS intends on an outright fork of its version of Chromium, MS has added nothing of any great import, and is locked into Google's development direction.
Beyond that, I just don't see the point here. There's no reason I can imagine wanting to use Chromium-with-an-Edge skin. MS can't afford to fork it too far, beca
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So you think Microsoft just writing a skin on top of Chromium and locking it into their own app ecosystem is some sort of solution?
Well no, better would be if Microsoft had its own engine, which they originally did. This, however, was also bad because no company can ever do anything good in the eyes of Slashdot.
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Edge just plain sucked. I found out, apart from anything else, to be unstable. By the time they righted the ship, I had no interest in using it. And if I want to Chromium, I'll just run Chromium. There's nothing MS is going to bring to the table that's actually going to make me want to switch, and since MS no longer has any kind of meaningful market position in browsing, it no longer has any way of making the rules. And that's a good thing, because when they were dominant, they abused it. If I wanted to swi
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My god! It's IE6 all over again!
Embrace ... extend ... (Score:2)
extinguish.
I wonder how long it will take them to try it?
Can't browser makers get away from extensions? (Score:2)
Extensions are always a backdoor to all the security features that are built into the browser. Where it can connect to a different site and share data from the site you are visiting, being able to access your drive and storage, and even change what you are seeing on the page.
I get it back in the 1990's where HTML was limited, Extensions such as Flash, Java Applets, VML.. were "needed" to offer the experience that people wanted. But today it has been shown to be more of a hassle then what it is worth. And
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They tried to get away from them and people flipped their shit over it when Firefox simply limited the access extensions can have. Damned if they do and damned if they don't. People need to figure out what the hell they way, features or security. One of these will always give way to the other.
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Extension generally have the purpose of "stopping" built-n browser maliciousness. They are required because the companies that write browsers (and the companies and kiddies that write web-sites) are malicious by nature, and something needs to stop the malice. Since the browser vendors have no incentive to do so (it would interfere with their revenue stream) extensions are instead required to put the kaibosh on the malicious script kiddies.
It's pretty much the opposite for me (Score:3)
Why bother with Edge? (Score:3)
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You shouldn't. You should never use a Chromium-based browser like Edge, Opera, Chrome, etc.
Use Chromium.
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You shouldn't. You should use a non-Google spyware browser such as Firefox.
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Why would I use Chromium-based Edge instead of going directly to the source?
Because you might be ingrained into Microsoft services and this will work seemlessly with them? Because you might want a Chromium based browser without the Google spyware? Because you like it?
I'm guessing you could have come up with those answers yourself if you weren't a fucking shill.
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Because you might be ingrained into Microsoft services and this will work seemlessly with them?
We've got a Win 10 Pro user at the office whose up-to-date Outlook doesn't work properly with our up-to-date Exchange. The IT folks who know Windows can't help.
All the Mac users and probably 75% of the Windows 10 users have no problems. Magic!
I agree (Score:1)
Aieeee, three Microsoft stories in a row, make it stop, make it stop!
Opportunity for unrestricted adblocking extensions (Score:3)
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Cool again? Again?
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Cool again? Again?
"Again" is correct - though it's been a really long time since then, IE versions 4 to 6 were pretty cool when shipped. Compared to the bloated mess the main competitor (Netscape Navigator) had become, IE was slick, fast and a lot less buggy.
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Well, less buggy... closer to the truth is that it went its own way, didn't give a shit about standards and had enough of a market share that webdesigners catered to the whims of this non-standards-compliant browser rather than following the standards.
Malicious Extension Renewal! Hooray! (Score:3)
Microsoft says that if a developer has already created an extension for Google Chrome, there shouldn't be any additional work to port it over to Edge Chromium.
So, all the malicious extensions that have been banned by Google should work as-is, out-of-the-box, with Chromium-based Edge?
Hooray!
Re: Malicious Extension Renewal! Hooray! (Score:2)
Extensions that are malicious toward Google, like NoScript. Certainly!
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Ad blocking is the deal breaker for me... (Score:3)
The #1 thing that will get me using this, or just passing like I do with Edge currently, is the presence of UBlock Origin, The Great Suspender, TamperMonkey (mainly to handle anti-adblock sites), and F. B. Purity. If MS locks those out of Edge, I'll just keep continuing to use Firefox or Chrome.
Of course, other extensions like BitWarden go without saying, but I don't see those being an issue.
#1 use of Microsoft browser (Score:1)
Chom* (Score:2)
>"Microsoft says that if a developer has already created an extension for Google Chrome, there shouldn't be any additional work to port it over to Edge Chromium."
That's because Edge *is* Chrom*, just like all other multiplatform browsers that are not Firefox. So you get Google controlling many of the important parts of the way the web works, and a dangerous browser monoculture, with only Firefox standing in the way. But now you also have the bonus layer of Microsoft mucking around with the UI and contr
Two whole articles on MICROS~1 Chrome :] (Score:1)