Thread: Chrome to feature extension by May 2009

Browser wars is going to get a major boost when Google chrome browser will start featuring extensions. The basics on how to code extensions for Chrome will be discussed at a developer conference which will be held on May this year. The process model for the extensions has already been outlined. As a stepping stone the current developer builds of Google Chrome has support for user scripts already.

Some of the APIs can be found in here

"Chromium extensions will follow a multi-process architecture to share the same kind of stability and security that regular web pages have in Chromium. All of an extension's code runs in a single process, separate from the browser (with the exception of user scripts which run in whichever renderers they apply to). Extension code can communicate with user scripts, and vice versa, through a message passing API."

it will take a lot of extentions to win over die hard Firefox fans.

i was indeed waiting for such plugins/extensions of chrome. i liked the browser very much but just one or two very useful features of a web-browser were missing which made it tough to handle ... like the absence of the url list dropdown button