How to get Chrome extensions on Edge web browser in 5 easy steps?

Introduction

If you see an amazing Chrome extension, and you are looking at how to get chrome extensions on edge Chromium web browser? Therefore, this help page will help you how you can install any Chrome extensions in the latest and new Microsoft Edge web browser.

Microsoft Edge (Chromium)

In December 2018, Microsoft announced that the would move its HTMLEdge engine to the Chromium (Blink) technology as the web browser. So users have better compatibility with all websites and web standard features.

Microsoft Edge: Making the web better through more open source collaboration

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Source: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/microsoft-edge-making-the-web-better-through-more-open-source-collaboration

Later that upcoming year, Microsoft Edge Insider Addon went public on 14 March 2018. And here you can get the official Turn Off the Lights for Microsoft Edge extension as one of the 100 hundred hosted Edge extensions on the Microsoft Inside Edge store. The official Turn Off the Lights for Microsoft Edge can be downloaded on this website: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/insider-addons/detail/fmamkbgpnienhphflfdamlhnljffjdgm

Turn Off the Lights on Microsoft Edge Insider Addons
Turn Off the Lights on Microsoft Edge Insider Addons

The Solution how to get Chrome extensions on Edge web browser

  1. Open your Microsoft Edge web browser (on your Windows or Mac computer)
  2. Click on the horizontal 3 dots icon
  3. The menu shows up, and select the Extensions menu item
Microsoft Edge extensions menu
Microsoft Edge web browser

The Extensions page shows up, and so here you can click on the blue hyperlink “Get extensions from Microsoft Store”. Where you can download all the useful official extensions that Microsoft approved for its web browser.

To install extensions from other sources such as the Chrome Web Store, follow the steps below:

  1. Click on the switch “Allow extensions from other stores.
  2. A popup window will show up, and click on the blue Allow button to allow this setting to change
Microsoft Edge disable allow extensions from other stores - Step 2
Microsoft Edge shows the Extensions tab
Message box to allow extensions from other stores - Step 3
Allow extensions from other stores
Microsoft Edge extensions page - Step 4
How to get Chrome extensions on Edge, and allow extensions switch is enabled in Microsoft Edge

When you open now a Chrome web store page, such as the most popular Turn Off the Lights Chrome extension. As a result, you will see it add a blue bar on the top of the website, to let you know that you can download extensions from this store. So with one single click on the “Add to Chrome” blue button. Then it will install the Turn Off the Lights Chrome extension in your Chrome web browser.

How to get chrome extensions on edge, and to install the Turn Off the Lights Chrome extension from the chrome web store
How to get Chrome extensions on Edge, and to install the Turn Off the Lights Chrome extension from the Chrome Web Store

If you can not see this blue button, make sure you have the latest Microsoft Edge installed on your personal Windows or Mac computer.

Conclusion

Now you know how to get Chrome extensions for Edge, and that you can download and use the Turn Off the Lights Chrome extension. However, we recommend using the Microsoft Edge extension version for better harmony with the web browser and getting updates from the Microsoft Store.

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Stefan Van Damme