Microsoft Edge’s Sidebar is about to become even more awesome with extension support

The Microsoft Edge Sidebar is going to become even more useful with extensions.

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What you need to know

Microsoft Edge keeps getting new features. Now it is opening up its Sidebar to extension developers, allowing them to create extensions with the Sidebar in mind. The Microsoft Edge Sidebar has seen some solid changes since it was introduced, includingthe impressive Bing Chat AIaddition at the top of the Sidebar allowing you to quickly interface with Bing AI and to add it to your workflow easily.

With Microsoft opening up the Edge Sidebar to extension developers it will allow for some rather useful functionality over the typical extension set up. Here’s what developers will be able to do with your favorite extensions:

Microsoft also notes that your Sidebar page offers the same level of flexibility as other extension pages. You can load scripts, call APIs from your Sidebar page and unleash the full potential of your creativity.

Theblog post goes into more detailon the tools available to extension developers. It’s good to see that the Edge Sidebar is going be utilized in a more productive way. It will of course take some time for developers to get their extensions updated, but Microsoft do say that they intend to alert users of the extensions as users go to different websites.

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