Microsoft yesterday updated its Windows 10 preview, adding support for extensions to the default Edge browser, finally fulfilling a promise it made last year that was itself a delay on a pledge to boost the browser’s functionality.

As part of Windows 10 build 14291 — the latest in a series of test versions fed to participants in Microsoft’s Windows Insider program — Edge can now run one or more of the three extensions the Redmond, Wash. company currently offers.

“The Windows Insider build will include three preview extensions: Microsoft Translator, an extension that automatically translates pages in over 50 different languages, a Mouse Gestures extension, and an early preview version of the popular Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES),” said Drew DeBruyne, Edge’s general manager, in a post to a company blog late Thursday. “Later this year customers will find popular extensions from partners like AdBlock, Adblock Plus, Amazon, LastPass, Evernote and more.”

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