Using Browser Extensions in Tauri v2

February 2, 2025 - 3 mins read

Recently, I found out that not so long ago Tauri introduced a feature to enable and install browser extensions in WebView2. This feature doesn’t have a guide yet, so I decided to write one myself. I hope you will find it useful.

Notes to consider:

This is a Windows-only feature because only WebView2 supports browser extensions and WebKit (which is used on Mac and Linux) does not.
Only Chromium-compatible extensions can be used because WebView2 is based on Chromium.

Prerequsites

Open your project or create a new one following the Tauri guide. For this guide, I created a new project using Tauri CLI.