Chrome - support extensions will appear no later than May!

In the program of the May conference of Google developers, a point was devoted to the development of extensions for the Chrome browser. “Learn how to easily develop extensions using renowned web technologies. It will cover both the basics (distribution, installation and updating of extensions) and various API features. ” This is an approximate translation of the quote. A little more can be found further.


From this document we can get some ideas about the principle of developing extensions. Extensions will fully comply with the multithreaded architecture of the browser, that is, as each tab is executed in a separate thread, a different one will be created for each extension. The technology of extensions will apparently be developed from user scripts, which by the way are already supported in the latest developer version of the browser. How to enable it can be found here . Speaking of compatibility with add-ons for firefox, so far there is no question, although there have been certain rumors before. In general, one way or another, a new field for activity will soon appear, and Chrome will receive, then what is so lacking in it. Looking forward to =)

Small upd : here is another found list of future APIs . At the very beginning we see Html5, which is very good, and in general the list is very diverse and fully covers the functionality of the browser. super!