Thankfully, Microsoft Edge will soon support Chrome-style browser extensions. Norton does something similar, recommending you use a “supported browser” like Internet Explorer on Windows 10. All so you can keep using the McAfee browser extension.Įven if that browser extension helped keep you secure a little bit–something we don’t really believe–you’d be much better off with the improved security in Microsoft Edge. Instead, McAfee recommends you use Internet Explorer, and will helpfully remove Edge from your taskbar and pin Internet Explorer there if you let it.
It has a more streamlined codebase and a variety of other improvements, such as protection against “ binary injection,” where other programs inject code into the Microsoft Edge process.Īnd yet, McAfee–which is even installed by default on many new Windows 10 PCs–really doesn’t want you to use Microsoft Edge. It runs in a sandbox and abandons support for old, insecure plug-in technologies like ActiveX. If you’ve been following the development of Microsoft Edge for Windows 10, you’ll know that it’s supposed to be a more secure web browser than Internet Explorer. Example 2: McAfee and Norton Don’t Think Microsoft Edge Is Secure (Because It Doesn’t Support Their Add-On) Hopefully, the browser extensions are being developed by a different team and the real experts are working on the antivirus software itself–but that’s a good example of how those antivirus browser extensions can go from useless to harmful. Not only did AVG ship a browser extension with obviously broken, shoddy, insecure code, but AVG’s developers couldn’t even fix the problem without having their hands held by a Google security researcher.
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