The Horizon OS browser appears to be getting a spread of latest extensions, together with an advert blocker and a number of VPN choices, a screenshot suggests.
For most individuals, Meta’s internet browser at present has one first-party extension, a PDF viewer, and one third-party extension, the LastPass password supervisor. It shipped final yr.
Now, one week earlier than Meta Join 2025, some Quest homeowners are seeing eight new extensions obtainable, an advert blocker, 4 new password managers, and three VPN companies:
- Ghostery Tracker & Advert Blocker
- Bitwarden (Password Supervisor)
- NordPass (Password Supervisor)
- Proton Move (Password Supervisor)
- Dashlane (Password Supervisor)
- NordVPN
- Proton VPN
- AdGuard VPN
Password supervisor integrations make it way more sensible to make use of your headset’s internet browser to entry internet companies that use an account.
On Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, if you happen to already personal different Apple gadgets, your Safari saved passwords will mechanically be obtainable, gated behind your iris with Optic ID. The identical needs to be true for Google Chrome customers with the upcoming Android XR platform, set to debut on Samsung’s standalone headset.
Meta, alternatively, doesn’t have a conventional system ecosystem or browser. As such, to keep away from its customers having to painstakingly manually enter passwords, it must dealer partnerships with companions reminiscent of password managers, and maybe at some point different browsers.
In the meantime, the addition of an advert blocker ought to make a lot of the net extra nice to browse, and cargo sooner, with the tradeoff of taking away potential income from corporations that depend on advertisements to outlive.
The three VPN companies within the screenshot additionally assist advert blocking, if you happen to pay the month-to-month subscription price, along with their usefulness for bypassing nationwide censorship, protecting your IP tackle and what websites you go to non-public, and accessing region-locked content material.
Wolvic WebXR Browser Switches To Chromium For Efficiency
Wolvic, the successor to the Firefox Actuality internet browser, is switching to Chromium to shut its efficiency hole with the Meta Quest browser.
It is already doable to get a variety of add-ons within the third-party Wolvic browser, an offshoot of Firefox Actuality obtainable on the Horizon Retailer that helps Firefox add-ons. That features standard advert blockers, password managers, VPNs, and extra.
However Wolvic is an immersive app, not a 2D window, so cannot be introduced up or stored up whereas in different immersive apps. Whereas you too can sideload the APK for the flatscreen Android Firefox app, that requires enabling developer mode and utilizing an exterior system like a PC, and does not assist WebXR.
Thus, the built-in internet browser getting extra extensions ought to nonetheless be very helpful for a lot of Quest homeowners. In fact, what could be extra helpful could be the power for any developer to submit extensions to an extension retailer.
Meta Join 2025 is ready to happen subsequent week, and it is doable we’ll hear extra about what’s subsequent for the Horizon OS internet browser.
