Where are we with Microsoft Edge ?

Customers are very interested with the availability of addons on  Edge and the necessary adjustments to bring to the existing chrome/FF extensions for running them in this new environment.
At the time we speak i.e. April,2017, I could collect the following facts from various sources :

Note:  not so transparent since the porting involves 2 new JS files
called "backgroundScriptsAPIBridge.js" and "contentScriptsAPIBridge.js" ...

  • Windows Store already includes several known extensions (lastPass, ghostery etc...). Publication method is available but does not cover Edge. 

  • It is possible to package and "sideload" an extension but browser will ask explicit "turn-on" user confirmation a few seconds after each restart.

Overall documentation for Edge extensions can be found at
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/extensions

Caveat: I have tested none of those tools & claims ! this is extracted
from official Microsoft documentation

EDIT: following Microsoft decision to move EDGE to chromium, chrome extensions can be loaded in EDGE and moreover Edge is also available on Windows7 & Windows8.  

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