The work Microsoft has done with its Edge browser is worth noting. Let’s remember that its great historical precedent is Internet Explorer, software that still gives many people a cold sweat (and rightly so, mind you), and that its sequel was the original Edge, which still had its own engine and repeated many mistakes, which those at Redmond have already committed with what was, despite everything, the most widely used web browser of its time (no doubt due to the fact that it was part of Windows).

However, everything changed when the technology company decided that it had bet on this failed strategy for too long and subsequently announced that Microsoft Edge will adopt Chromium as its browser engine. In this way, the war of browsers based on their different engines ended and a much more interesting phase (and better for users) began, a competition based on the features offered to users.

Since then, and we’ve repeated this on many occasions at MuyComputer, we’ve seen Microsoft’s web browser get better and better, even surpassing its main competitors in certain aspects, a virtuous path that’s only tarnished, yes, because of Microsoft’s tendency . try to fight Google Chrome in ways that are not always appropriate, which I actually find counterproductive because that means spot after spot in the browser image, which is otherwise a more than decent choice.

Another example of the efforts of those at Redmond in improving their browser can be found at LifeHacker where they tell us that Microsoft Edge Canary for Android is already testing the use of extensions. As you already know, Canary is one of the beta channels for some Microsoft products, in which we find versions that are not yet stable, but which in turn allow us to test new features before they go into releases. stable versions of Edge, Windows, etc.

While both support and the number of extensions suggest there is still work ahead, anyone interested can get started Try extension support now in Microsoft Edge Canary for Android. Of course, the first step is to have this version of the Microsoft browser, which you can download from this link. Once installed, type “edge://flags” in the address/search bar, press Enter, and search for “#edge-extensions-android” on the page that opens.

In the result that appears, change the “Default” value to “Enabled”, restart the browser (a quick access will appear at the bottom of the screen to do so) and when the restart is complete, click on the menu with three horizontal lines (in the lower right corner) , move the menu to the second page, click on “All Menus” and in the new menu that appears, you will see a new entry “Extensions”, click on it and You will now be able to see what is available, which at the moment are these three:

With this feature, Microsoft responds to Mozilla, which last December completed its plan to bring Firefox extensions to the Android version of the browser. Now of course it remains wait for moves from Google in this regardwith Chrome extensions. And also, of course, with the arrival of this option to iOS browsers in Europe, as soon as iOS 17.4 arrives, they can now use the engine of their choice and not WebKit, as was mandatory until now.