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An Early Look at Chrome’s Extensions System

It’s not officially released, but a gallery-like site for extensions has made itself known into the latest development builds of Google Chrome for Windows and Linux. Take a peek at what’s coming, presumably very soon, in these development screenshots.

The Download Squad blog was the first to notice the new new thing in Chrome—namely, a jigsaw-like page corner in Chrome’s new tab page, next to a message at the bottom that reads “New! Chrome now ..read more

Google Chrome Turns On Extensions by Default on the Dev Channel

Starting today, all builds in Google Chrome’s dev channel will have extension support enabled by default—meaning Chrome is one step closer to the kind of extensibility that keeps Firefox die-hards from switching.

Not that extensions is the only thing that keeps users loyal to Firefox, but from what we’ve heard around the water cooler, that is the case for a lot of folks frustrated with Firefox memory bloat.

Google pushed out some ..read more

Chromium Updater Keeps You on the Bleeding Edge of Chrome for Mac

Mac OS X: Chrome for Mac is progressing at a slow but steady pace, but if you’re willing to risk the latest Chromium for Mac builds, some great new features await. But how do you stay up-to-date with the latest Chromium builds?

Enter Chromium Updater, a barebones application that determines if you’re running the latest build of Chromium, then updates to the latest and greatest if you aren’t. Just run ..read more