One of the reasons why Google Chrome has become the king of the browser market, in addition to being included natively in Android, is thanks to the great nNumber of extensions available to you on the Chrome Web Store.
Although it is true that Safari also has extensions available, the number of these it is very small compared to Chrome or Firefox without going any further. But all that will change with macOS Big Sur, thanks to the portability of extensions that Apple has announced at the WWDC days.
In one of these sessions, Apple has announced Safari Web Extensions, a system that will adopt an API extension similar to those used by Chrome and Firefox. This will allow users to have at their disposal a greater number of extensions.
So far, Safari only allowed extensions to share content or block ads. The Safari Web Extensions will make it easier for developers to code useful plugins in technologies such as JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
Apple takes a different approach than we can find in Firefox, since the extensions are available as native applications and they will have to pass the Apple filter, so we will not find malicious extensions that have always traditionally happened in the Chrome extensions store.
Now all that remains is for the extension developers, be for the work to convert its extensions available for Chrome and Firefox to Safari, a move that Microsoft already tried in 2015 when it launched Windows 10 with the Microsoft Edge browser, and that did not help.
Not getting the support of the community, he focused on completely revamping this browser and a few months ago he launched Edge Chromium, a browser that uses the same rendering engine as Chrome, so all the extensions available in the Google extensions store, we can install you directly on Edge Chromium.