On Firefox but itching to switch to Google Chrome? The big G’s one flaw next to Mozilla’s rapidly bloating browser is lack of easy to use add-ons, but that could soon be about to change, as the search giant’s taken the first big step towards making Google Chrome extensions mainstream.
Google has just announced that it’s turning on extensions (akin to Firefox plug-ins) by default in new developer builds of Google Chrome. Crafty computer pros could turn these features (like Gmail alerts) on before, but this marks the first step in the “launch process” to giving them the greenlight for the official, non-beta version of Google Chrome.
It’s not clear when that will happen, and with what public release version of Google Chrome extension support will drop, but it’s good to know Google is gearing it up for a mass audience
There are only a few extensions available for Google Chrome at the moment, but we should start to see them snowball from here on in, which is great news for anybody fed up with Firefox 3.5 and its laggy URL bar. Who’s up for a mass defection?
Out TBC | £TBC | Google Chrome (Via TechCrunch)
Cool, now Chrome turns into a bloated insecure and buggy mess, just like Firefox is…
Congratulations. 2 browsers to avoid like the plague…
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