In the same year, Chrome overtook Internet Explorer as the world's most popular browser, and its market share continued to grow, reaching 60% in 2018. As of June 2012, there were 750 million total installs of extensions and other content hosted on the store.

Beta testing for this capability began in 2009, and the following year Google opened the Chrome Web Store. While that goal is unlikely to be achieved, the majority of browsers already use the same or very similar APIs due to the popularity of Google Chrome.Ĭhrome was the first browser with an extension API based solely on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In 2015, a community working group formed under the W3C to create a single standard application programming interface (API) for browser extensions. Microsoft Edge added extension support in 2016. Opera began supporting extensions in 2009, and both Google Chrome and Safari did so the following year. Firefox has supported extensions since its launch in 2004. Internet Explorer was the first major browser to support extensions, with the release of version 4 in 1999.

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