Windows 10: Windows 10: Extensions for Edge to arrive with Redstone in 2016

Agreed. Look at all the years they had to make IE great and failed.

 

No doubt Chrome has a good head start. Microsoft is breaking away from "that's how it's always been done" syndrome. I'm sure Microsoft will continue to develop Edge and strive to make it the go to browser in time. We get to watch and see!*Think

 

Me too. Very occasionally I have to use IE, the rest of the time Edge. I prefer it and have no use for extensions anyway.

 

What does it means ...?
MS needs more time to fix ... ? Are they that Incompetent .. ? Or choose to be behind ...?

 

Looking around a few places, it seems as MS has managed to push Chrome usage even higher than before on win 10 and Edge. The browser is the single most important app on a any OS. Chrome's portability and extension support will remain dominant with the ability to sync across any platform. I hope FF hangs in there, but the HTML5 video has seemed to lag behind on win 10.

I would use edge if there were some basic extensions, but it is really unusable without them, and the lack of cross platform syncing *handwave*

 

Ummm, say whut? We ain't!?

Just because we like to live dangerously, doesn't mean we use our computers any differently than Average Joe.

For my money, if Edge doesn't do the job (and it doesn't), then I'm not going to waste my time with it. And, since it won't be "finished" until sometime in 2016, I'll just change my defaults back to what they were before Microsoft muscled in and changed 'em.

 

I've been using Web Browsers since Mosaic, I spend an awful lot of time on the net, in all that time I think I've used one extension. Early on I used Netscape, then I tried Explorer, too slow. Sometime after that I used Firefox, then I started using Chrome, still never used extensions. Sometime in Windows 7 I started using Explorer again and Chrome.
Now I use mainly Edge and sometimes Chrome, all I look for in a browser are speed and search capabilities, and importing favourites. Edge is good enough for me, I always keep Chrome handy just in case something goes wrong.

 

Hi,
At least for me..I really wish Microsoft would have the enabling of extension's sooner, especially the password manager that I use / need with IE 11. I'm referring LastPass Password Manager. As I have a multitude of password's, I surely can't remember them all, lastpass makes this SOOO much easier for me. I know BOTH IE 11 & the EDGE browsers are 'supposed' to have 'built-in' password remembering technologies, but they don't work properly. Of course this is just my own opinion.
David *Wink

 

A lot closer to fact than it is to opinion.

 

This is precisely why extensions are important for me, especially since 'web 2.0.' Take a look here at Mrs. Clinton on CNN. FF is using a single extension (actually, it's built in now if you know where to look), and Edge is what it is. Besides page load times, the CPU is churning on my laptop at about 9-14%.





If I disable the FF extension, then FF takes the hit as well.





That's not acceptable for me on a laptop when the page is idle. To put this into perspective, streaming Netflix & Amazon videos will keep the CPU at about 1-2% or lower on Edge. Even playing Games on my Intel APU (mainly DX9) will not idle the CPU like this, and except when loading a level, most games will not run this high non stop.

I'm not a tinfoil hat person, and I really prefer to use native applications as much as possible. I I certainly do not load my browsers with many extensions. I use 1 currently, and it's mainly for performance reasons, security being second.

 

The only thing that keeps me to a Chromium based browsers is the lack of extensions. Other than that, Edge is doing everything I want. I don't use favorities anyway...

 

Edge is a nice browser so far. But it really does need work and by next year it could be amazing, I hope.