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Extensions now enabled by default in Google Chrome dev channel, now where are they?
Did Google just take the next step in making extensions play a more interesting role in Google Chrome? Possibly, but at least now we can trim our command line switches down a little.
Those of you running Chrome's bleeding-edge developer channel builds can now drop the --enable-extensions switch. They're now supported by default.
Of course, that assumes you've bothered to enable them in the first place. After using Chrome almost exclusively for about a month, I found that I had amassed a nice collection of Userscripts and bookmarklets but had yet to find a truly interesting extension. XMarks is getting close, and the LastPass team is also hard at work.
New updates to the developer documents have also been published, so perhaps that will help things take off.
At any rate, it's the "first step in [the] launch process," according to Chromium developer Aaron Boodman. Next stop: the beta channel.
Aaron's blog post also indicates that the UI may change by the time the jump to beta happens. That'd be nice, because the puffy, light-blue bar at the bottom of the browser window? It's not going to win any UI beauty contests.
Those of you running Chrome's bleeding-edge developer channel builds can now drop the --enable-extensions switch. They're now supported by default.
Of course, that assumes you've bothered to enable them in the first place. After using Chrome almost exclusively for about a month, I found that I had amassed a nice collection of Userscripts and bookmarklets but had yet to find a truly interesting extension. XMarks is getting close, and the LastPass team is also hard at work.
New updates to the developer documents have also been published, so perhaps that will help things take off.
At any rate, it's the "first step in [the] launch process," according to Chromium developer Aaron Boodman. Next stop: the beta channel.
Aaron's blog post also indicates that the UI may change by the time the jump to beta happens. That'd be nice, because the puffy, light-blue bar at the bottom of the browser window? It's not going to win any UI beauty contests.
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Subscribe to commentsSam JordanSep 10th 2009 10:35AM
I really like Chrome, but Firefox just has a few killer features.
Extensions is one, so if I can get Xmarks and Adblock on Chome, that'd be ace.
That and smooth scrolling, please Google, pretty please....!
robin_rosengrenSep 10th 2009 10:55AM
Smooth scrolling extension:
http://www.chromeplugins.org/google/chrome-plugins/new-ext-smoothscroll-8167.html
Not exactly Adblock, but almost: http://www.adsweep.org
Sam JordanSep 10th 2009 11:02AM
Wow, awesome! Thanks a lot Robin!
Saint SeminoleSep 10th 2009 10:57AM
I haven't found an extension, period, for Chrome. Everything so far is a "hack" or a script. To me, an extension is something that's painless to install for the average user. ("Click here to add this extension.")
When it gets to that point, then I'll be interested in Chrome again. Maybe.
EvilositySep 11th 2009 11:21AM
Well, for what it's worth, installing Adsweep was a fairly simple operation. Clicked the link, it informed me a extension was installing, and I was done.
Dave ForsterSep 10th 2009 3:12PM
http://wiki.foxmarks.com/wiki/XmarksForChrome
just waiting for LastPass
sigSep 10th 2009 4:49PM
If there were an easier/better way to use LastPass on Chrome, I'd be all over it.
dblue.007Nov 5th 2009 9:02AM
i tried the adblock, chrome-touch, chrome-tray, aniweather on chrome. my version is:
Google Chrome 4.0.223.16 (Official Build 30555)
WebKit 532.3
V8 1.3.16.1
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.223.16 Safari/532.3
every time i restart chrome, all the extensions are gone. i've to reinstall them manually again. it'd be so nice if extension management is breezy just as in firefox.