Interesting indeed because (8 days ago):
@albertjohn3038 just because they are working on it doesnāt mean it will appear any time soon. Brave has never fully said no on extensions but have said that itās a heavy lift they canāt/wonāt be able to do on their own. Itās been reliant on either Chromium/Google allowing for it again or something to kind of fall in place.
The way extensions had been handled by browsers like Kiwi in the past was a security risk, essentially using old Chromium code and manually adding/splicing in updates. In recent years there have been bigger players like Microsoft that has been adding code for Edge. And as MasterLink referenced, is also talk of Google allowing for extension support on Desktop Android (Chromebook).
People are hopeful that if added for Desktop Android, then it would create a door for Android on mobile devices to be able to use it as well.
Iām guessing Brave is likely tracking all of that and seeing how much they can implement. Overall though has been one of those things that likely was going to need an āupstreamā rather than completely building and adding the support āin-house.ā Iād be shocked if they changed course on that.
Interesting. I stand by what I said, they never said they are working on it. They said the feature is being implemented. Not by them, by Google. The post on X says they (Brave) are working on it, not Google.
I certainly am not trying to come off as rude here, but no matter how I phrase this will always sound off:
Do you know how Chromium works? Some things cannot be added by oneself, as @Saoiray stated. Some needs the Chromium team (Google) to put things in the backend for it to even work, Brave cannot simply do this themselves. (If they did, every Chromium build update has a chance of breaking it, hence Stephen also mentioned the other browser you brought up was doing essentially a hack, which isnāt safe, and not something Brave is going to do for liability reasons).
Thatās OK, you are not being rude. I am also trying to be polite. I mean, I didnāt request support for extensions, I just implied that the Brave team misled users on X and gave false hope, as we can see from their stance on this forum.
So you are saying Microsoft Android browser which used Kiwi browsers open source code for extensions, has major security issues. Thatās interesting.
I know deeply about browsers, as much as one can know without actually building one, and I know things become simple if Google, the maintainer of Chromium simply implements it themselves. if they did that, then literally every other browser would support them too.
Itās called āEdgeā.
Yes, and itās why I uninstalled Edge on my phone that day and actually switched to Brave a year ago when I saw it in the beta. We knew where it came from per GitHub, and there was opposition to it.
@albertjohn3038 thatās not true. Why would you say itās misleading? If the team is looking for options and trying to build it in, even if it means waiting as things change upstream, thereās no being misled.
Brave has a ton of things they have been working on for years. Just like how they have Playlist they made and added to iOS. It was supposed to be added to Android and Desktop as well. Itās been years now with no progress. They are still trying, but constantly have to shift priorities based on small team and budget.
Saying they are working on it is 100% true. It just comes down to the question of how quick anyone can expect it. Iām more brutally honest on things which is why I said it all as I did.
Iām not. Edge took some of the source code on how Kiwi was doing things and modified to add it to their own. Iām not entirely sure the differences. I was trying to open on BlueStacks but for some reason Edge isnāt working on it. Iām not entirely sure where I left my old Samsung Galaxy S9 so canāt get it on to run some tests.
I do recall itās greatly limited. You can see kind of where they talk a bit about it at https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftEdge/comments/1pr8odr/finally_all_extensions_are_officially_available/ just 17 days ago.
Not all extensions can be installed and even when they are, they donāt always work. And based on that more recent update I linked, it still is hidden in experimental flags.
So itās a big work in progress even for the larger company with a lot more money.
Hi, yeah Edge has a limited selection of extensions, but this selection covers the most important user needs. It would be nice to see a similar implementation to Brave. But as I can read, itās all up to Chrome.
Anyway, what about Firefoxās limited mobile addons? Are they safe to use?
Also, thereās a simple tweak to use almost all desktop addons by just switching to desktop mode on mobile. IDK why this works; is it a security/privacy risk to use dekstop only addons with this method?
Someone in the privacy space said itās ok to do so, but Iām not so sure about it.
I think the author has meant it for the phone and not Desktop.
The mobile version of Brave is very much trunchated version of Desktop one when it comes for the features 
The Kiwi example is a bad one, it would be better if you gave an example of the best customizable and secure/private browser for this - āCromiteā.
Iāve switched to Firefox years ago, everything I need is available within the extensions for mobile, and itās easy to add many of them from the desktop software āonlyā. So I donāt need to wait for Brave mobile extension support anymore. Thx
I just wanna state to the dev team for the record that this feature is not important to everyone. I literally couldnāt care less. I prefer using Brave on Desktop anyway as itās way faster and more efficient than typing and searching on a tiny screen. The Android version already gives stellar privacy protection compared to almost any other mobile browser, and thatās about all I could hope for. Great work #DevTeam!! 
As a PSA to the community, be very careful which Extensions you install anyway, and keep it to a minimum, as they are an excellent vehicle for data exfiltration and exploiting vulnerabilities. There have been numerous breaches via extensions, even banking info, so again, be EXCEEDINGLY cautious!! These privacy criteria are a pretty good baseline, except I would add that it should also be moderately popular to ensure enough eyes are on the code to catch security flaws.
Canāt wait for this to be a feature, as I personally would love to add the Consumer Rights Wiki chrome extension to the Brave browser on my Android phone.
Android version of Brave Browser doesnāt has Extension support at all. Samsung Browser, Edge Browser, Kiwi Browser of Android version already have Extension support.
omg, people have been asking for it since 2021. But didnāt Brave team share anything on this yet?
I know. Extension support takes more time than others. How about sharing the extension support code once instead of integrating it right away? I mean open-source community could use your help while brave takes the time to catch up.
Or an extension version that will get updates once in 1 or 2 months if Brave team could manage some time for it. That way current version will be stable until the next major update. And it will be for users who prioritize extension support over frequent updates. Just some options that I could think of right now xD
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100% AGREED!
Commenting to voice my ādesireā towards some āstrong demandā for this feature 
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Iād also like this feature. Itās 2026 and there still isnāt a browser that just lets me install whatever addon I want and sync it across all devices with encryption.
Firefox is kind of re-emerging, but they already had that like 10 years ago or so. They just decided to kill their browser by abandoning the self-hosted sync server, requiring addons to get signed by mozilla, forgetting to renew the certiciate, and disabling addons on mobile (a ācurated listā still means you canāt use addons). Now itās dead. No one uses it anymore.
Iām not going to have them sign addons that I want to use or spread, so they are just not going to be on Firefox, and I am stuck using Brave browser on desktop and Edge nightly or whatever on mobile.
It honestly makes me wonder how the devs who make the browser actually use it themselves. How can you live without addons on mobile? Do you just not use your phone, or do you use apps for everything? You program a browser, but then you donāt program yourself addons to improve your experience, including on mobile? I donāt understand. I vibecoded myself 9 browser addons so far, which do small things such as expand all categories on a groceries website. I wouldnāt know how to live without it.
Sooo yeah. Please give us addons on mobile. Maybe even let us sync them with e2e encryption. Perhaps even with our own sync server, or peer to peer.
Until then, Brave on desktop is just āany Chrome browser that does not spy on meā and on mobile it doesnāt exist. There is no other feature that I care about.