Safari News: Safari finally gets a key feature which may help it continue with Chrome

All the foremost popular Chrome extensions might be coming to Safari soon

Safari web users will not need to worry about falling behind Chrome and Firefox after Apple revealed a serious upgrade for its browser.

After mentioning a variety of native extensions as a part of the macOS 11 Big Sur reveal earlier in the week, Apple has now said it'll be adding support for porting web extensions from other platforms. 

The company says this move will allow developers to port an existing extension from Chrome, Firefox, or Edge "with little or no effort" onto Safari which has fallen behind its rivals when it involves useful add-ons.

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The news was revealed during a WWDC session outlining just what the new Safari Web Extensions can bring back users.

Safari users don't currently have tons to settle on from when it involves extensions and add-ons, with only a couple of sharing and blocking options currently available on iOS or macOS. 

However, the new platform exposes developers to be ready to utilize the likes of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS on Safari.

All new offerings will be got to be submitted to the App Store, as Safari extensions will still be got to be an Xcode project bundled with a native app to download - although this app won't even necessarily need to do anything.

Users will receive a warning alert when using an extension for the primary time and Safari also will display alerts if an extension tries to access a user's entire browsing data.

Apple says it'll soon release an extension converter to assist developers to transfer their extensions simply and quickly. This converter is going to be ready to spot any regulatory or compatibility issues, and whether you ought to limit the reach of an extension to particular websites, or for a group amount of your time.

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