At the end of May we reported about the addition of 12 new Microsoft Edge extensions that had been published in the Windows Store over the course of a three month period. That brought the total number of extensions available for the two year old browser to 35.
This week, thanks to a tip from Twitter user @NecroSoftCore, we have learned that five more extensions have shown up in the Windows Store for Microsoft Edge which now brings that total number of extensions to 40.
When the Windows 10 Anniversary Update was release last July, this was the first public OS update that supported extensions in Microsoft Edge, there were just 13 extensions listed in the Windows Store. Until recently that growth has continued to be anemic with a total of just 19 available in December 2016, 23 in February 2017, and then 35 in late May 2017.
That is basically a doubling in size over the last 5 1/2 months compared to adding just six extensions over the first five months after they became available. However, it is still too slow and the floodgates need to be opened up so that users have options in Edge for the extensions they use in other browsers like FireFox and Chrome. That will certainly help with the adoption of Edge as a daily driver for many users on Windows 10.
In addition, more extensions for Microsoft Edge also means more options for users of Windows 10 S since only store based extensions can be installed on the operating system.
Of course, that expansion will not occur until Microsoft opens up the Edge extensions submission to all developers.
Let's take a look at the five new extensions:
Reddit's moderator tools are very spartan and sometimes cumbersome to use (Although recently progress has been made for the better). Toolbox is a browser extension that adds a ton of much needed features and functionality to reddit for moderators. Over the past four years of toolbox development 16,000 mods have installed it and use it in their daily modding activities.
Give As You Live Donation Reminder
Give as you Live is a way to raise free funds for charity, just by shopping online. You can support any of the 200,000+ charities in the UK and shop with over 4,000 leading stores - including Amazon, eBay, John Lewis and Booking.com. The Give as you Live Donation Reminder makes it even easier to raise these free funds - it reminds you about donation opportunities as you browse the web, and you can quickly access all your favourite stores via the Give as you Live icon that's added to the top of Edge.
Live Editor for CSS and LESS - Magic CSS
Live preview of CSS/LESS code with an in-page editor. Autocomplete, convert LESS to CSS, beautify, minify, CSS reloader, linter, etc. Run this extension and start writing your CSS/LESS code which gets applied immediately. The code you write will be saved in your browser's local storage at site level.
Flyview for SharePoint and Office 365 Sites
Explore SharePoint sites with this super fast SharePoint navigation plugin, supports on-premise 2013/10/07 and Office 365 versions Explore SharePoint sites with this super fast SharePoint navigation plugin, supports SharePoint Online (Office 365) and 2016/13/10. FlyView is a dynamic menu plugin that is automatically displayed in your browser when you login to a SharePoint Site. Now you explore and search your sites, libraries, lists, documents, setting options and more with lightning speeds. Simply put, something that would take minutes in the past can now be done within seconds with the help of FlyView. On average a typical SharePoint user would be saving 10-20 minutes per day, that means less frustration and more fun.
Enhancer for YouTube for Microsoft Edge
Tons of features to improve your user experience on YouTube.
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