Google Chrome launching extensions
Its been some time since Google announced that there will be extensions similar to the ones that Firefox has. Few weeks ago they released a build featuring the extensions. Very quickly people started developing them and even sites for extensions showed up (http://chromeextensions.org/).
But only today Google officially launched the beta version of extension channel.
For over a month now I have used Chrome (Chromium-browser in my case). To me it seems a lot faster than Firefox, which I used before. Switching was not easy, since Firefox had some features that no other browsers had – extensions and vastly customizable. But that was some time ago. Chrome is developing very fast. And now that it has extensions, it will be a huge competitor to Firefox.
About extensions themselves. I think they are better – they install fast, they start to work without restarting browser, they go very well with the user interface – keep it minimal, and they auto-update silently while you are browsing the web. Another thing I that surprized me was how quickly I can install and start using an extension, such as Chromed Bird (a twitter extension). I took me about 5 clicks – install, install, accept twitter API, done.
It doesn’t seem that extensions are in beta. I haven’t had any crashes and everything is working beautiful.
With extensions Google Chrome is certainly become a strong rival for Firefox. While there are not so much extensions as there is for Firefox, the concept for them in Chrome is certainly better in my opinion.
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