Google Chrome extensions: Not yet, but later

Ok before getting into this topic here is a little big of information on when Google will start releasing addons etc. And I will also be providing a small tutorial I found on "How to create Google Chrome addons".

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--One of Firefox's initial claims to fame is the fact that the browser can be extended with a multitude of plug-ins, and even though Microsoft caught up with Internet Explorer, Firefox still has an extension edge over Google's new Chrome Web browser.

For now.

"We don't have that in the beta today, but we definitely plan an extension API," or application programming interface, Sundar Pichai, a Google vice president of product management, said at the Chrome launch event here Tuesday. "It is one of the things we will get to next."

Firefox extensions cover a wide swath of abilities, from synchronizing bookmarks to debugging Web site performance to showing detailed exposure data for online photographs. The extensibility has attracted scads of programmers, too, which is strategically important for most computing efforts.

Google, no doubt, envies the Firefox extension assets. But it's hard to imagine the company mustering much enthusiasm for one of the most popular Firefox extensions, AdBlock Plus, which suppresses many advertisements.

Google has a strong focus on giving Web users a good experience--indeed, it said its studies show that users find the text ads placed next to search results an overall improvement. But Google's business depends on advertising, and its $3.1 billion DoubleClick acquisition is geared to give the company strength in just the sort of online display advertisements that AdBlock is designed to counteract.

Extensions shouldn't be confused with a related technology, plug-ins, which includes software such as Sun Microsystems' Java, Microsoft's Silverlight, and Adobe Systems' Flash. Existing plug-ins work in Chrome, Pichai said.

Article: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10031764-92.html

Now im not a nerd so im not going to say exciting but this does look promising I actually want to make my own Google Chrome add-on one day. I am looking forward to see what addons will show up, I also hope that the GoogleChrome addons will show up the FireFox addons and show them some new things :).

How to create Google Chrome Addons

Google Chrome can save labels to applications and run them without strapping browser, decided to make for themselves a small applicatinon - calculator. It looks like this:



Ad don - html-file, which can be downloaded from here: http://a-i-studio.com/chromecalc/chrome_calc.zip, Extract in any folder, open the file in chrome_calc.html Google Chrome and choose “Create shortcuts applications”

Then ask a convenient window size and position on the screen - Chrome remembers the size of the window when restart.

In establishing dialogue label application displays the name and brief description of the application. Give them, as well as links to the icons, which will be used to create desktop versions of icons, you can say:

Then ask a convenient window size and position on the screen - Chrome remembers the size of the window when restart.

In establishing dialogue label application displays the name and brief description of the application. Give them, as well as links to the icons, which will be used to create desktop versions of icons, you can say: