{"id":220942,"date":"2026-03-07T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/chrome-still-doesnt-have-extensions-on-android-so-i-found-a-browser-that-does\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T08:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:55:08","slug":"chrome-still-doesnt-have-extensions-on-android-so-i-found-a-browser-that-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/chrome-still-doesnt-have-extensions-on-android-so-i-found-a-browser-that-does\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome still doesn&#8217;t have extensions on Android, so I found a browser that does"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/chrome-doesnt-have-extensions-on-android-so-i-found-a-browser-that-does\/\">Chrome still doesn&#8217;t have extensions on Android, so I found a browser that does<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/chrome-doesnt-have-extensions-on-android-so-i-found-a-browser-that-does\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/chrome-doesnt-have-extensions-on-android-so-i-found-a-browser-that-does\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-07 08:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chrome came with my first Android phone, and I never made a decision about it. It was just there, it loaded pages, and that was enough.<\/p>\n<p>I tried other browsers that have shown up over the years, like Firefox, Edge, and Kiwi, and I would look at them for a few minutes, notice something interesting, then drift back to Chrome without really choosing to.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not loyalty, that&#8217;s just the benefit of the doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, I started doing more real work on my phone, and I kept reaching for things that weren&#8217;t there. Adblocker for the ad-heavy pages and Bitwarden for passwords.<\/p>\n<p>I ran tools on my desktop Chrome without thinking about them, but on my phone, none of them existed. I told myself Google was probably working on it, and I believed that for longer than it made sense.<\/p>\n<p>Then one afternoon, while I was waiting on a page that covered half the screen without a cancel button, I stopped waiting.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\t9 reasons you should ditch Chrome for Android and use this old-school browser instead<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Android browser Chrome doesn&#8217;t want you to use<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"why-chrome-on-android-still-lacks-extension-support\">\n                        Why Chrome on Android still&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/chrome-doesnt-have-extensions-on-android-so-i-found-a-browser-that-does\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chrome still doesn&#8217;t have extensions on Android, so I found a browser that does https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/chrome-doesnt-have-extensions-on-android-so-i-found-a-browser-that-does\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/android-phone-with-browser-puzzle-pieces-including-chrome-with-an-x-and-the-quetta-browser-logo.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-220942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220944,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220942\/revisions\/220944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}