{"id":234440,"date":"2026-04-22T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/chrome-cant-use-android-extensions-but-these-5-mobile-browsers-can\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:50:16","slug":"chrome-cant-use-android-extensions-but-these-5-mobile-browsers-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/chrome-cant-use-android-extensions-but-these-5-mobile-browsers-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome can\u2019t use Android extensions, but these 5 mobile browsers can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/android-browsers-that-run-extensions-chrome-keeps-leaving-out\/\">Chrome can\u2019t use Android extensions, but these 5 mobile browsers can<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/android-browsers-that-run-extensions-chrome-keeps-leaving-out\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/android-browsers-that-run-extensions-chrome-keeps-leaving-out\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-22 15:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a Chrome user since it came to Android, and I still use it more than I should. But there&#8217;s one thing I&#8217;ve worked around for years: Chrome on Android has never supported extensions. Not in 2012 when it launched on the platform, and not now in 2026. I do not think it&#8217;s a bug or an oversight; rather, I think it&#8217;s a deliberate decision Google hasn&#8217;t shown much interest in reversing.<\/p>\n<p>So when I want to run uBlock Origin, Bitwarden, Dark Reader, or any of the extensions that grace my desktop browsing, I&#8217;ve had to look elsewhere. The good news is that an interesting group of browsers has stepped in to fill that gap.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tThese Are the 7 Best Browsers That Aren&#8217;t Google Chrome<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Chrome is excellent, but it\u2019s not the only game in town.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"firefox\">\n                        Firefox<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"the-one-that-rewrote-its-own-rulebook\">\n            The one that rewrote its own rulebook<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>                                                                           &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/android-browsers-that-run-extensions-chrome-keeps-leaving-out\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chrome can\u2019t use Android extensions, but these 5 mobile browsers can https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/android-browsers-that-run-extensions-chrome-keeps-leaving-out\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-22&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/04\/a-mobile-browser-menu-showing-active-extensions.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-234440","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\/234440"}],"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=234440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234442,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234440\/revisions\/234442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}