Chrome Browser Extensions Coming

Terry Olaes

Terry Olaes

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One of the biggest complaints I’ve seen from [H] readers about Chrome is the lack of browser extension support. Get ready to have that complaint remedied. At Google I/O, one of the presentations was about Chrome’s extension system and ReadWriteWeb shares the highlights with us.

If you're playing around with one of the developer builds of Google Chrome, you can test drive this feature before it makes its public debut. Already, there are a handful of extensions available including an ad-blocker called AdSweep, a PageRank checker, and Cleeki, an extension that ports IE8 Accelerators to Chrome.
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Boo, i had a thread about this two days ago and nobody seemed to care.
 
Nice, an adblocker... hopefully someone also makes a smooth-scroll addon... any also an addon that fixes the "scroll-click-and-drag-the-mouse-around" so it doesn't use that laggy slow version in chrome. And maybe something else that makes the download manager on the bottom of the screen less obnoxious.

Sticking w/ firefox for now.
 
Love me some Chrome, and I'll welcome the add-ons.

The one thing I really wish I had was the ability to add options to the right click menu. For instance right now if I highlight some text and right click it, there is an option to "Search google for '<text>'". That is incredibly useful, but I'd love it if I could also have the option to "Search wikipedia", "Search Youtube", "Search IMDB", etc.

Anyone happen to know if that ability is in firefox?
 
criccio said:
Boo, i had a thread about this two days ago and nobody seemed to care.
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phide said:
I cared :(
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I cared, too . . . sniff! :p but then I saw this ont he Front Page, and it all went away

Now life seems so monoChrome I think I'll have to go golfing to set things a-right

ooooh, and a LUVll cup o tea with biscuits, that should sort things Right Out :D
 
lol, thanks guys. ;)

All I gotta say is, once there is a full feature set of extensions AND Foxmarks/Xmarks support in a stable build of Chrome, I will be switching full time.
 
Lesson to any would be browser makers, if you are going to release a browser then do it with extension/add-on support from the beginning please.
 
Yeah, Noscript, or something similar but for chrome, should make it usable. Really been waiting for this.
 
Methadras said:
Lesson to any would be browser makers, if you are going to release a browser then do it with extension/add-on support from the beginning please.
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Basically.

I tried the Chrome beta, and just gave up shortly after, moving back to Firefox. I don't see really any reason to switch, unless you're just that in love with Google and want to feel elite cause you're using a minority browser.

Now they get extensions, but Firefox has how many years of people making extensions for it ? I still don't see a reason to change over.
 
I would switch full-time because of the way it handles tabs, each in their own process. With the kind of power browsing that I do, I frequently come onto a site that crashes firefox.
 
I'll switch over to Chrome full time once there are a few extensions available like ad blocking and noscript. That's all that's keeping me on Firefox.
 
NKDietrich said:
I'll switch over to Chrome full time once there are a few extensions available like ad blocking and noscript. That's all that's keeping me on Firefox.
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You haven't even clicked the links, have you?

In any case, I followed the links, created the quick Adblock plugin to test - and bam, works like a charm.
 
CounTDookU23 said:
Gimmmie No Script for Chrome and I will be happy!! :eek:
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NKDietrich said:
I'll switch over to Chrome full time once there are a few extensions available like ad blocking and noscript. That's all that's keeping me on Firefox.
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Yup that and the interface is just better. You get more of the actual webpage than the browser taking up space.

Klintor said:
I would switch full-time because of the way it handles tabs, each in their own process. With the kind of power browsing that I do, I frequently come onto a site that crashes firefox.
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That too.
 
Oh good, extensions finally..

Watching Chrome's "Mythical" speed advantage disappear in 3.....2......1....
 
Once you've spent some time without extensions, you realize how uncritical they are, at least for the average user with no dev needs.

At this point is silly to try to claim a winner in the browser wars; Opera, Chrome, Safari 4 and Firefox, all of them are very balanced browsers with their own pros and cons.
 
Its weird, I thought I'd miss extensions when I switched from Chrome to FF, but not so much anymore...
 
lovelyx said:
Once you've spent some time without extensions, you realize how uncritical they are, at least for the average user with no dev needs.

At this point is silly to try to claim a winner in the browser wars; Opera, Chrome, Safari 4 and Firefox, all of them are very balanced browsers with their own pros and cons.
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I agree, they're all really really fast and solid.
 
Serpico said:
I agree, they're all really really fast and solid.
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I agree too but I personally prefer Chrome's interface. It's nice to have such good competition that the choice comes down to your personal tastes.
 
Except that with the right plugins for FF, you can make it look and act like Chrome.
 
Ill care when they are out in the wild and can be used, then ill try it.
 
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