Add-ons for browsers are great: Companies like Google and Microsoft make websites try to fit as many features as they can into their apps, but users don't always tell them what features they want or need. Third-party developers, on the other hand, can focus on a single feature or function. If you install their app, you'll essentially get a useful new tool for your web browsing.
It works great on a desktop computer, but not so much on an Android device. Chrome, which runs a lot of famous sites, only directly supports extensions on desktops, so Android browsers have only sometimes had support for them. Some of the people who work on the web browser Vivaldi told Android Police that adding support for extensions to their Android browser would cost a lot of money. For the most part, Android users have to go to their desktops to access apps. This is likely the case for other coders as well.
But Microsoft seems to believe that the cost will be worth it in the end. Leopeva64 on Twitter noticed that Edge is trying to support for extensions in the Canary version of its Android app right now. Microsoft tests new features on this version of Edge before making them available to everyone. If you turn on the Extensions flag, you'll see a new "Extensions" option in the Edge menu. This is where you can add support extensions.
How to Use Microsoft Edge's extensions on Android devices
Although the public version of Edge for Android does not include this capability, anybody may use the Edge Canary app to test it out for themselves. Install Microsoft Edge Canary from the Play Store to get started. Open the address bar, type edge://flags, and press Enter. This is where you may explore all of Edge Canary's feature flags, or experimental features, including Extensions, which are located under #edge-extensions-android.
Change this to an enabled flag. After that, you can hit Edge Canary's three-dot menu to see the new Extensions option. The three extensions that are now available are Global Speed, uBlock Origin, and Dark Reader, according to Leopeva64's article. At least you're off to a wonderful start; hopefully more will be added as this function is tested further. If nothing else, using uBlock Origin on Android to browse the web is a big benefit.
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