February 6, 2009 at 11:53Chrome - extension support will be available no later than May!
An item on the development of extensions for the Chrome browser was noticed in the program of the May Google Developers Conference. “Learn how easy it is to develop extensions using renowned web technologies. It’s about the basics (distributing, installing and updating extensions), as well as the various features of the API. ” This is an approximate translation of a quote. You can find out a little more further.
From this documentwe can get some idea of the principle of extension development. Extensions will fully comply with the multi-threaded browser architecture, that is, as each tab is executed in a separate thread, so each extension will have its own. Extension technology will probably develop from user-scripts, which by the way are already supported in the latest development version of the browser. You can find out how to enable it here . By the way, there is no talk of compatibility with add-ons for firefox, although there were some rumors before. In general, one way or another, a new field for activity will soon appear, and Chrome will receive something that is so lacking in it. We look forward =)
A small upd : I also found a list of future APIs. At the very beginning we see Html5, which is very pleasing, and in general the list is very diverse and fully covers the functionality of the browser. super!
From this documentwe can get some idea of the principle of extension development. Extensions will fully comply with the multi-threaded browser architecture, that is, as each tab is executed in a separate thread, so each extension will have its own. Extension technology will probably develop from user-scripts, which by the way are already supported in the latest development version of the browser. You can find out how to enable it here . By the way, there is no talk of compatibility with add-ons for firefox, although there were some rumors before. In general, one way or another, a new field for activity will soon appear, and Chrome will receive something that is so lacking in it. We look forward =)
A small upd : I also found a list of future APIs. At the very beginning we see Html5, which is very pleasing, and in general the list is very diverse and fully covers the functionality of the browser. super!