

“We have been working closely with Microsoft to bring this version to life, and we feel very grateful for the opportunity,” the post read. En el aviso del sistema que muestra los permisos necesarios para la extensión, revise detenidamente los permisos y, a continuación, seleccione Agregar extensión si desea continuar. Busque la extensión que desea agregar y seleccione Obtener. That means it’s easy for developers such as Adblock Plus to just modify code they’ve already written for the likes of Chrome, in order to create a new extension for Edge. Seleccione Abrir complementos de Microsoft Edge. Whereas Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer required tons of special code, Edge is more standards-based-the whole point of the browser is to give Microsoft a more modern alternative to Internet Explorer, in order to better compete with Chrome and Firefox. Get Data Sheet, Fortune’s technology newsletter. From the Chrome toolbar, click the Chrome menu icon, hover over More Tools and select Extensions. “Today marks a release to the general public and we are very excited to welcome all Microsoft Edge users to the ad blocking community.” “Adblock Plus was already available for Microsoft Edge before but could only be installed by participants of Microsoft’s Windows Insider Program,” the German outfit said in a blog post. And Adblock Plus, one of the most widely used ad-blockers with more than 100 million active users, is ready. Give it a try and see what you think.That means Edge users can start deploying ad blockers, as they already can in Google’s (GOOG) Chrome, Mozilla’s Firefox, and Microsoft’s (MSFT) older browser, Internet Explorer. One of the upsides of this approach is that our current implementation of Adblock Plus for Microsoft Edge is based on the code of Adblock Plus for Chrome, unlike the entirely separate codebase for Internet Explorer.īut there are issues - enough for the Beta tag to still be warranted.

In a blog post, Oleksandr Paraska says:Īfter years of development and support of Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer we very much welcome Microsoft’s bold attempt to move to standards based approaches with Microsoft Edge.

The company says that it has been working very closely with Microsoft to get the extension released, but admits that development is still at something of an early stage.

Adblock Plus points out, however: " Please note that according to Microsoft, the Windows 10 update will be rolled out over a few months, so if you cannot install Adblock Plus and other extensions today, Microsoft will surely deliver your update soon". Adblock Plus for Microsoft Edge can be downloaded from the Windows Store.
