
BuiltWith Technology Profiler is an interesting extension that tries to gather as much information as it can about the various underlying elements of any website you’re visiting. Use your favorite and pretend the other doesn’t exist, at least until the inevitable moment comes when you want to see how the other half clips. So why fight? Both OneNote and Evernote have a web clipper available for Edge, allowing you to take snippets from the web and add them to your notes. Each product has its advocates and solid reasons for using one over the other.

We’re not going to bother debating which note-taking app is superior.

Next, just browse the web as you normally would, and when you come across an article you’d like to save, click the icon to stash it in your read-it-later list. Once the extension is installed, click on the icon to sign in. Popular read-it-later service Pocket uses a browser extension so you can easily save items as you browse with Microsoft Edge. If that bothers you, use it in conjunction with an ad blocker. This extension isn’t an ad blocker, per se, but the result is similar since it goes after and stops tracking technologies, many of which are attached to ads. GhosteryĪnother popular choice for the privacy conscious is Ghostery.

If you ever want to stop ABP from working on a certain site, just click on the icon, and then click Enabled on this site from the drop-down menu to undo that action. You install it and the extension starts blocking ads. This popular extension behaves here just as it does on other browsers. From the beginning, Adblock Plus has been part of Edge’s extension catalog. A privacy-conscious user or just someone who hates being accosted by excessive ads won’t get very far without a solid ad blocker.
