If your company runs on Microsoft 365, there is a good chance your sales team works in Microsoft Edge. The good news: Edge is built on Chromium, the same engine as Chrome, so you are not limited to the Edge Add-ons store. Nearly every sales extension built for Chrome runs in Edge too.
The harder part is choosing. Most "best extensions" lists pile up 20 tools that do overlapping jobs. This guide does the opposite: it covers the five jobs a sales rep does in the browser every day and recommends one extension for each, plus the Edge features that make the browser itself useful for selling.
Quick answer: A lean Edge sales stack is one tool each for finding prospects, finding contact details, writing outreach, booking meetings and logging to your CRM. Five extensions cover the whole day; more than that usually means overlapping tools.
If you sell to local or small businesses — restaurants, clinics, agencies, contractors, retailers — your prospects are on Google Maps, not LinkedIn. GrabNear saves the businesses you are looking at on Google Maps into a lead list: name, phone, category, rating, review count, address and website. From there you can mark a status (New, Follow Up, Qualified, Meeting Done), add notes, and export to Excel.
Best for: field sales, agencies, SaaS for SMBs, anyone prospecting by city and category.
For enterprise and mid-market selling where you target specific people at specific companies, Sales Navigator is still the standard. Its browser extension shows Sales Navigator details as you browse. It needs a paid Sales Navigator seat, so it makes sense for account executives with a defined target list, not for broad local prospecting.
Open a company's website and Hunter lists the email addresses it has found for that domain, with a confidence score. It is useful once you know which company you want and need a person to email. The free plan has a monthly limit on searches.
Tip: for local businesses, the fastest route is often the business's own website. GrabNear's Deep Search visits a lead's website and pulls the emails, phone numbers and social links published there.
Checks spelling, grammar and tone as you type in email, LinkedIn and your CRM. A typo in a first message costs credibility you will not get back. It is especially valuable for reps writing to international prospects in a second language.
No install needed. Open the Copilot pane to summarise a prospect's website or a long email thread, or draft a first version of a reply. Always edit the draft — prospects can tell when a message was written for nobody in particular.
Record a short screen-and-camera video from the browser and share it as a link. A 60-second video walking through a prospect's own website or Google listing stands out in an inbox full of text.
Insert your booking link or a few open time slots into an email or LinkedIn message without leaving the page. Removing the back-and-forth over "what time works?" is one of the easiest ways to lift meeting rates.
Every major CRM has an official browser extension that logs emails and creates contacts from the page you are on. Use the one that matches your CRM rather than a third-party connector — it is maintained by the vendor and respects your CRM's permissions. If you use GrabNear, its webhooks can push new leads straight into your CRM.
| Job | Extension | Cost to start | Where to install |
|---|---|---|---|
| Find local prospects | GrabNear | Free | Edge Add-ons |
| Find named B2B accounts | LinkedIn Sales Navigator | Paid seat | Chrome Web Store |
| Find email addresses | Hunter | Free tier | Chrome Web Store |
| Write clean outreach | Grammarly | Free tier | Edge Add-ons |
| Draft and summarise | Copilot sidebar | Built in | Already in Edge |
| Video messages | Loom | Free tier | Chrome Web Store |
| Book meetings | Calendly | Free tier | Chrome Web Store |
| Log to CRM | Your CRM's extension | Included with CRM | Either store |
If your company manages Edge centrally, IT may block extensions from other stores. In that case, ask them to allow the specific extensions you need.
GrabNear for prospects, Grammarly for messages, Calendly for meetings, and your CRM's extension. Four tools, mostly free.
Sales Navigator, Hunter, Grammarly, your CRM's extension, and Loom for high-value accounts.
GrabNear to find businesses in your niche and city, Loom to send a short audit of their website or Google listing, and Calendly to book the call. See our guide to finding businesses without a website for a ready-made prospect list.
Save businesses from Google Maps into a lead list with phone, website, rating and address. Track follow-ups and export to Excel.
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