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Google Chrome Extensions LIVE!
Dec 9th
Google are on fire this week in the news, bringing out new features to most of their tools. Google wave gets more invites and mac gets chrome… ahh yes chrome! Im here to announce that the unveiling of google chromes long awaited extensions are finally here.
Google Chrome for Mac just went live this morning, and now Google is announcing that the Google Chrome Extensions beta is open,and just being open for several hours it has seen more than 300 extensions already available and added for the public to use. Mac users, cannot however yet use them as the extensions only work for the Windows version of the Chrome browser. While you’ll no doubt notice that the 300 extensions available don’t match the quality and quantity of existing Firefox extensions. The one great advantage of the chrome extensions is that every time you install one you don’t have to restart the entire browser!! This i think is great, and is very useful to save reopening all your tabs again and wasting time!
The announcement that was posted on google is as follows, here is a snippet of it:
“Today, we’re really happy to release a beta of extensions that begins to deliver on our initial vision. Extensions are as easy to create as webpages. Users can install and uninstall them quickly without restart, and extensions have a great polished look that fits in with Google Chrome’s minimalist aesthetic. When developers upload an extension it is available to users immediately, with limited restrictions and manual reviews only in a few situations.”
Chrome Prepares To Launch Extensions
Nov 24th
Google Chrome is my default browser and im writing this article with it right now, i chose to use it as it is lightning fast, and now currently holds over 3% of the browser market, (also google are soon to release it as part of an operating system). But what’s missing? Well… Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, and other browsers all have one thing in common and that is extensions. Where as google chrome is currently lacking this, well for now…
We’ve known that extensions were coming to Chrome since February, but so far only the developer version of Chrome has extensions.
It now looks like the wait for third party Chrome Extensions is nearing an end. Today, it was announced that it has opened up the Google Chrome extension Gallery for submissions.
Fancy submitting an extension? The process is simple: log in with your Google account, zip yourcode and your extension’s icon, submit supplementary info like a description or a YouTube video, and you’re done! The process is automatic for almost every extension. I wish you luck in getting accepted, i am thinking about processing an extension myself.
