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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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Sam Jordan said 10:35AM on 9-10-2009
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....!
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robin_rosengren said 10:55AM on 9-10-2009
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 Jordan said 11:02AM on 9-10-2009
Wow, awesome! Thanks a lot Robin!
Saint Seminole said 10:57AM on 9-10-2009
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.
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Evilosity said 11:21AM on 9-11-2009
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 Forster said 3:12PM on 9-10-2009
http://wiki.foxmarks.com/wiki/XmarksForChrome
just waiting for LastPass
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sig said 4:49PM on 9-10-2009
If there were an easier/better way to use LastPass on Chrome, I'd be all over it.
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dblue.007 said 9:02AM on 11-05-2009
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.
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