Microsoft’s Edge browser may be fighting to discover loyal fans, but its programmers are making every attempt to bring it up to level, particularly with extensions.

Over the course of a one-day Edge programmer summit on Monday, Microsoft showed off how its amount of compatible browser extensions could raise by just altering a line or two of code in an extension. As well as the firm vowed to keep its security tight via an approaching change to “sandbox” Adobe Flash, a favorite vector for browser strikes.

For backwards compatibility of legacy business programs, Microsoft boats Edge and IE as a portion of Windows 10.

Microsoft considers, predicated on data gathered from the tracking program StatCounter, that its browser share has outpaced Chrome for the very first seven months of its own life. Needless to say, that waves away the undeniable fact that millions of users mechanically added Edge as a portion of Windows 10, as well as the reality that users are left IE/Border for some other browsers in droves.

Why this matters: Our evaluations suggested the foundation setup of Chrome (with extensions switched off) uses up quite a lot of memory–but Edge was worse, as it is both bloated and slow. The purpose, however, is that the race is not around, and Edge can nevertheless catch up. But without user-facing attributes like extensions, they will not trouble.