Microsoft's roadmap for Windows 10 for business customers claims that extensions for Microsoft Edge may be added for the Windows 10 Mobile version.
The roadmap added a mobile device icon to the PC and tablet symbols with the "Extensions" listing on the Windows for Business roadmap section (via Plaffo) titled "In Development.".Microsoft previously hinted that it had no plans to offer extension support for the Edge browser in Windows 10 Mobile.
However, keep in mind that this feature's appearance on a roadmap does not guarantee that it will eventually be released. Indeed, Microsoft's roadmap offers this caveat:
The information on this page is for informational purposes only, is subject to change at any time without notice, and may not be applicable to customers in all geographies.
In any case, we don't expect that it will be added to Windows 10 Mobile as part of the big Windows 10 Anniversary Update.
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Extensions may be headed to Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 Mobile
I don't know why everyone is so thrilled about adblocker ... if a site is slow amd filled with ads I simply never visit it again. Those sites tend to be quite unprofessional anyway. Or if they have an app I use that instead.
Because without adblocking you leave yourself open to yet another attack vector for hackers
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Definitely a good point, but it also depends on the sites you are visting I guess. Well, at least I do not feel vulnerable on the sites I visit.
Soon
that would be nice
I just hope it comes to Microsoft edge on Xbox one too....
Adblocking by all means, and password control (like LastPass also). Edge, even on the desktop, has moved at such a glacial pace. Months and months and months pass, and finally they begin to introduce extensions about a month ago, but such perifferal ones that it's made no difference. Lets get going.already.
This could separate windows phone from the others like uc browser, opera, chrome, safari, etc
Will redstone branch ever be available for 512mb ram devices?
No.
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im still waiting for them on desktop the released version.
And ad blocker in mobile is an absolute necessity. If MS won't allow one I'm going to have to defect to alternate platforms.
they need to make the browser usable first ... it has so many issues with laying out mobile versions of sites ... it messes up even the simplist hamburger menu, css, and java script
Never happened to me. In my work as a web developer, I constantly test on both my 950XL and my 10.1" Win10 tablet, and everything that has worked on desktop in Chrome has worked wonderfully in Edge on all devices. Unless its really old/unoptimized css and/or js and/or html it should work really well.
Does adblocking via a host file add to memory usage and cpu cycles? Can't be much, right?
I LOVE Edge when accompanied by a proper host file. So fast and very stable on the desktop. Would be nice to find some equivalent on W10M even if considered a "hack".
I doubt it. All the hosts file does is reroute certain sites.
Right. Actually these specific host files are just a long list of known ad-hosting-servers and they "block" them by providing a dead-end ip address. Thus the webpage-code that calls for the ads to render, never actually download the ads to render. The list is just text based records and might take up a small memory space, at most.
Again, just wish we could "hack" W10M to control a similar method.
Host file hacking has been available for W10M for so long.
It's not easy, and I still can't find any guides for how to edit it on the Lumia 950/950XL. Due to their newer chip architecture, the hacks that work for older devices don't work for these phones.
Yea, I suspect when it is "easy" enough for the dedicated faithful (950\1520..etc diehards :) ) we will hear and see the method.
Seems like extensions would be easy to implement given Edge shares a similar source between desktop and mobile versions, and the extensions themselves are just loaded scripts.
Well i hope they do not only for speed but for the best part when i look at my friends that say i wish i had adblock on my android :3 and ios i would be like, already have it B| plus on store adblock says it has ARM :3
You do realise thad iOS and Android both have Adblock plugins already?! Windows Mobile is (surprise, surprise), way behind!
Extensions would be great. I'm using chrome just for the extensions. I'll switch over if MS gives us enough extensions without it being a hog.
If they can be added, they should be added.
Extensions can provide a lot of flexibility in a browser. They can be a part of RS2.
Sent from a black hole.
Oh good, now....browsing slow. Optimize it first, it crashes sometime.
Yes yes yes! Fingers crossed. +730
Wish this would happen
Ad block for mobile would make for beautiful web browsing!
More importantly, use less power, less bandwidth and less memory so faster performance.
But yes, it would be beautiful to have no ads!
Adblocking actually uses more CPU and ram. At least that has been my experience with various browsers along the years
You sound like an Ad broker...
You're pulling my chain Cryio! Try browsing Youtube before and after enabling Adblock Plus. Then come back here and correct your statement.
YouTube? Heck, try it on THIS site. With ads kills your CPU and Memory both. Without ads, nice. I guarowntee. (that's guarantee with a cajun accent.)
I wish they would.
If not all of them - than at least after some sort of tests that will ensure that they won't drain battery to quickly.
Hopefully it will come to mobile. Ads on websites are too many and are extremely distracting. This has caused me not to visit some sites.
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Not every site can do do it, but the built-in Reading Mode is great for cleaning up cluttered sites. I use it any chance I can.
I do too, but often it takes a whole lot of loading time to get to the point where the reading mode button is available.
Yep. And everyone using ad blockers will eventually lead to those sites becoming pay-to-use. Just wait and see.
Everyone has been using ad blockers for years. It's only led to sites making the ads more intrusive and obnoxious to get your attention, because they think people just aren't seeing them.
Adding it to edge to make it faster is just too logical so MS won't do it.
You do know Adblocks require additional memory and CPU time, right ?
So does having to load 10 ads in one webpage, which also consumes more bandwidth.
Well put, sir.
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Well the time to download and process the ads is much more
I doubt that but still it probably doesn't slow down browsing as much as ads do.
When you go to a webpage it opens a socket and connects to a server and then Edge downloads the HTML and any code and parses it to display the content. If there are ads extra sockets are created to the servers for ads as the engine generates the website. There is a lot of messaging going back and forth and lots of parsing. Then the actual content has to be downloaded and the engine must generate the appropriate images/movies etc.. The extension sits on top of Edge before the engine actually draws the page and filters out the content for the engine and then the engine displays the webpage. You are saving many resources by not creating additional sockets, parsing additional messaging and downloading displaying additional content. The extension does nothing but parses text so the processing required is very minimal and it saves a lot of resources.
all extention even for Chrome take more CPU and memory space, that is noting new and is also allways slow down the broswer speed for echo extention you add, that is the same for Chrome, Firefox etc.
Or they do then 6 months later say we can get it to stop draining battery so back to internal builds