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26 January 2010
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Web Design
Finally Google has enabled extensions on Chrome! They have extensions for most web tasks and intergration of social media, and many extensions we use on firefox. They have recognized extensions like CoolIris, Digg, Facebook, Firebug, MeasureIt! and Amazon wishlist. Plus they are allowing people to submit their own extensions, leaving the extension part of Chrome kind of open source, whilst still enabling them to filter out or to uninclude whatever they don't like or deem inappropriate.
But it still only has around 1,500 extensions. A lot, but not nearly as many as firefox, hopefully they will get much more on Chrome as with it's much faster speeds and blink of an eye starting times, it makes a better browser. There’s a Google Voice extension to let you know how many messages you have while you are browsing, access your messages and transcripts, and it lets you send texts and make calls all whilst on Google Chrome, it even lets you call numbers displayed on the internet.
This has been a widely talked about extension, but there is also one available that incorporates GMail, Google voice, the new Google wave and Google reader into one extension so they can all be used and viewed simultaneously, which is a much bigger development if you ask me. Stuff like this is hard to come about on other browsers, well the Google specific software related extensions anyway.
Also Xmarks is available to Chrome users now, but it is useless as Chrome already has a bookmark sync function that reads and sends all bookmarks from and to other browsers and your other windows computers, plus it auto-updates. And extensions for Chrome have now been released on Linux too.
This is to name a few of the many extensions available, and even though firefox has lots more, some of them must be older versions that are now updated, or several different extensions that do the same thing when only one is worth having, that’s what happens after the extensions being around for so long. So have fun playing with Chrome’s new functionality as now it's definitely a must have for Windows and Linux users. As for people owning Mac’s, it’s bad news. Extensions are not yet available for your versions of Chrome, with Google not saying anything about its release, which means you’re better off keeping firefox for now.
