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.”
Google Chrome OS 1GB USB!
Dec 1st
Want to use the new chrome OS? Have you already tried Chrome OS using a virtual machine, and were less than impressed? Released a few days ago was the OS for open source use and it was built as a 3/4 gb that could be turned into an image file for a USB, but now a Twitter user Hexxeh has compiled this to a 1gb usb bootable operating system, he has now set up a Web site where you can view all the instructions you need for getting your bootable USB up and running.
Interested? Take A look here, you can download the image file from a variety of servers, mac instructions, windows instructions and image write instructions are all shown on the website,
Enjoy using the new Google Chromium OS:
Google Chromium OS For The Dell Netbook
Dec 1st
It has been announced that Dell have released an unofficial version of the new Google Chrome OS running on its Mini 10v netbook. Last week the “Chromium OS” was released as an open source operating system for testing. Dell have now reported success in making it stable to run on a netbook well. It still needs alot of work although it will run, but many bugs and updates for it will be make available as they are produced.
The note that there were problems that include things like the network manager taking 5-10 minutes to connect up, this was one amongst some of the things that need readjusting. Dell also keen to point out that downloading it is at your own risk and it comes totally unsupported and is tested very minimally.
For the rest of us, we’ll have to wait another year before seeing the OS and there’s still no word on any official Google Chrome OS netbooks, but in the meantime if you fancy your chances on a Dell Mini 10v go out and get one.
Cant wait till the official release? Check out here for the:
VERSION OF THE GOOGLE CHROMIUM OS That Can Be INSTALLED ON A USB DEVICE FREE TODAY!
