Google has recently been making Firefox a bit more like its Chrome browser, with improvements to its toolbar for the Mozilla browser that give it a Chrome appearance, but by adding an easy way to develop extensions for Chrome, Google is going the opposite direction: making Chrome more like Firefox, which has arguably been successful largely because of its extensibility.So when will Chrome follow Firefox's suit? Almost certainly by the time of Google's I/O conference in May, Nicholas Moline suggests. This should significantly heat up the competition between the dueling open-source browsers, Firefox and Chrome, and give users greater choice.With Google's Chrome browser now topping 1 percent market share in the browser market, according to Net Applications, it still has a long way to go before it can tackle Firefox's 21.53 percent share. But the real loser here is likely to be Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which continues to slide in market share against the open-source browsers.By adding the ability for developers to improve Google Chrome through extensions, Google is taking a risk that such extensions will slow performance, but it's also making a bet that a tailored browser will win over customers, as it has for Firefox. It's a smart bet, one that Mozilla made with Firefox, to good effect, even while Microsoft's own extension strategy failed to make much of an impact. More At; http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10157456-16.html &
http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensions/process-model
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